... -s PUBLIC TELEPHONE OFFICES have been established in Paris. The charge is 51/. for five minutes' conversation. 1THtEASARAH, a burlesque on Al. Sardou's 77icodora and Madame Bernhardt, will shortly he produced at a Paris theatre. THE MAKARTr Exilittltrox in Vienna opens on Thursday next, all the works of the late Austrian painter which could possibly be obtained being gathered together. ONE ...

... FETE AT BLACAKPOOL AN interesting celebration took place on Tuesday, September 29th, at 31achpool, that favourite Lancashire watering-place. The main features of the programme were the launching of a lifeboat, and the opening of an electric tramway. The life-boat came into existence in this way. A Manchester pawnbroker named Samuel Fletcher died intestate, and his estate reverted to the Crown. ...

... V -;Iv u Jr ''121 A NOVELETTE .L X E % v A5 L X J .L. By J. S. WINTER, AUTHOR OF CAVALRY LIFE,` REGIMENTAL LEGENDS,' AND BOOTLES' BABY. iLL USTRA TED BY IV. RALSTON IN' TWO WEEKLY PARTS-PART IL - * ?? CHAPTER 111. TtiEtm was very little of bravat the good ship Clyde slipped adown that night. Officers and men alike were very quiet, and Tomi Snow in and out of the cabin shared by his master ...

... NORTH WOOLWTICI GARDENS. At the meeting of the Board of Works on Friday Mr At he, min the absence of Mr Jolly, introduced a deputa- 3icbltd5OiToolwich. and adjoining places to present a memorial tifrothe beard to acquire the North Woolwich Gardens as a 'SklOS tion ground. The Bishop of St. Albans, who public rorhe board on behalf of the deputation, said that addrcssemonth ago the North ...

... TAKEN FROM LIFE., TO THE EDITOR O' THE ERA. Mr E. J. Cooper'presents his compliments to tile Editor of The Ero, and begs the insertion of the subjoined. Mr Coof feels justified in taking this course, Mr 1'ottitt having hod neither the candour to respond to his appeal nor the courtesy to acknowledge the receipt of his letter. [CoPY.] July 15th, 188l Ar Henry Pettitt-Sir,-Last evening I ...

... TO THE EDITOR OF THE ERA. Sir,-As an Englishman who has spent some time on the continent, I have been struck by the curious and, it seems to me, anomalous position which is held by the London music halls with respect to the theatres of the metropolis. The most frivolous dramatic entertainment is elaborately criticised in the leading journals, and the performances of those engaged therein are ...

... YORIK EASTER PANTOMIME. ,- -A_ . ,I Itt A . A A (FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.) In matters pantomime there can be no doubt that Mr Victor .teve'ls'5 name is one to conjure with, and it is equally certain ast it was a wise policy on the part of the management of the -;rlk Theatre to instal him for the fourth successive year as rcsidling genius over the Easter annual at that house, for aledin, ...

... v trIbobDf0 Cotb DURaNG the past week five-1ericans who ha've accepted service'as officerj in the Chinese -Army have arrived in this country to purchase stores. The families of the Invineibles who were convicted in connection with the Phoenix Park murders are now fiving in the greatest poverty in Dablis.-.' A young man named Price, the nephew of the landlord of the White Swan Hotel, Ross, ...

... I THE TRAFFIC IN IENGLISH GIRLS. [SUBJECT OF LLUSTRAtrO.s.J ON Thursday, last week, Mr. W. W. West attended before Mr. D'Eyncourt at W estminster, and saidthat hs was requested by Mr. Benjamin Scott (Chairman of Committee of the Society for protecting Y ?? Girls) to make a statement with regard to the young women who were sent over to an establishli ent at Havre. ...

... I -? - I , , , ?r '11,11 I .1. 7 ?? i , ?? ?? . ? I ?? I 6 coluqmlt? -. ver obo, -Y . - ,/ % , Mn. GHANT DurFF has arrived at Soimla on a visit to the Viccroy. The MaIras unicidpality has extended the suffrage to Women. A despeteb from Winnipteg qsys Tl'omns Lurmnden, farrer, brother of Sir Feter Lumsdsn, has ?? gored to death by r bull. The Bradford Chamber of Comni rme bave unanibonsly ...

... Qbb oub 0ub ,0 IT is sistell thatt recently, when a purse of £300 was madet up for. Strm Jon-s, he took out £L00 ahdl handed back I the balance, This certainly gives SOME! colour11 Of ?? It to the report ceceutly citculated that Samn was aI re- formed lawyer. A number of Dallas geutlemen awere talking shoutt' love,' I've always had haild luck inl love affours, c-tis- Kr. Petorby, 1 The first ...

... I Omeral Pda, I A ' Australian paperlstate3 that near PyramiL, *New South Wales, is shosvr the grave of a Chinaman d'igger wh& m lust have comm itted suicide with the grea test 'sae g froid snld determination. Weary of life, he o placed his coflie in a pittjao must have dug himself. The dislodged earth he put into a ' 'long Tom, actuslly balanced near the yawning grave. To the end of thoe lo ...