... $j!C Ignitbct llaUtoitn Bill, which was passed just before Parlia ment rose, devoted the sum of 3,000,000/. towards the construction of the railway now in the course of construction ...

... . The death of Mr. James Lewis, who succumbed suddenly on Thursday to a heart affection, robs Mr. Augustin Daly's Company of Comedians of an able colleague, and the public on both sides of the Atlantic of as genial a stage personality as it possesses. It seems only the other day that we laughed with him at the Comedy Theatre, for as the pompous, fussy Court von Counsellor Mittersteig in The ...

... . Wasn't it pathetic, Jack Rather why, the seats were in tiers. ...

... . Lost, stolen, and strayed letters have long played their part in modern fiction, but no invented set of coincidences can vie for a moment in interest with the numberless true romances connected both with the past and present history of the Post Office. Only the other day, a Muniment-room, which will serve as museum and storing-place for hundreds of curious and valuable documents and relics ...

... . When to light up: To-day, 7.12; to-morrow, 7.9; Friday, 7.7; Saturday, 7.5; Sunday, 7.2; Monday, 7.0; Tuesday, 6.57. The Wanderers Ladies' Cycling Club, Johannesburg, is the name of a wheeling society. It was formed in May, mainly through the exertions of Mrs, Rogers and Mr. W. T. Graham, the former being the wife of the popular chairman of the Wanderers Club Committee, and the latter a ...

... If lady golfers were in the habit of wearing such piquant and striking golf-gowns as those with which last night's production of Lord Tom Noddy has filled the Garrick stage, the golf-links would, I fancy, be crowded by enthusiastic or envious onlookers, the former, I need hardly say, masculine, and the latter feminine. Imagine, for instance, what interest would be taken in the strokes of a ...

... MISS VIOLET ROBINSON. ...

... MISS SADIE JEROME AS LADY ASCOTTE IN NEWMARKET, AT THE OPERA COMIQUE. FROM A PHOTOGRAPH liY SPEAIGHT, REGENT STREET, TV. ...

... IIow many people who heard that Princess Maud numbered among her wedding-presents a Brussels griffon the gift of Mr. Alfred Scwell knew what it really was The griffin of old was scarcely the sort of thing to give a blushing bride. A griffon is. These little dogs have become favourites in England only within the last few months, and made a good show at Boulogne in August. Five of them, owned ...

... CONCERNING THE ART OE CONDUCTING. A CHAT WITH FRANCOIS CELLIER. The orchestral conductor should see and hear, he should bo active and vigorous, should know the composition and the nature and compass of the instruments, should be able to read the score, and possess the indefinable gift without which an invisible link cannot establish itself between him and those he directs. Without it, power, ...

... OUR LADIES' PAGES. PROM HEAD TO HEEL. After being all that is adorable, charming, becoming, and recklessly extravagant for the past three or four seasons, fashion is now trending capriciously backwards, and the small sleeve, the Princess -shaped dress-- both alike requiring the figure of a Juno-- and, lastly, the graceless double skirt, all appear as provoking symptoms of the goddess's ...

... . By Mrs. Conney. WHO'S the good-looking woman you introduced me to last night? eh, Jack? inquired Stephen Elliott à propos of a partner of the previous evening. Is she a native of these parts? Tell me about her. There is nothing to tell, responded his host, except that she's a Mrs. Jermyn, the wife of Harold Jermyn, our neighbour at Burnham. And she fights with lier husband from ...