... -LECIThICAL EYE. AN INVE~NTOR'S CLAIMS.' F IVING SIGHT To TBE BLIND ANT) 1hAPING TO H~E DEA.U, Soni% vreeks ao a hri-kf ac~counrt was givna it CTh Daity News ' of Mk~r. iloter Slientis ittvention for tolephounig withouit IiLo. itis proposesd ho- C oro lone, we tiiittrsttd, to givo tho first jpublio deinn tvm. ation of tho powoitr of the nosy rinveti tomi. IItI lieO tea'attinlO, Air. Stiertlt, ...

... Slot s f ?? tle HIa q ines ARE WVE TO LOSE SOUTH AFRICA? IN the Nircelztkh Ceont/ry Sir Sidney Shippard replies to the criticisms on his first article, and speaks out perhaps even more plainly than before on the subject of the future of South Africa. Very interesting indeed are the few words which he has to say on the subject of that much discussed gentleman, President Kruger. That he is in ...

... 'the Cop of the fIIborning. THE OCEANIC'S FIRST ATLANTIC TRIP. The Oceanilc on her passage averaged a speed of 18.96 knots per hour, says the Central News. The ?? indicated was 20,000, against her capacity of 28,000. The coal expenditure was 400 tons daily. YELLOW FEVER IN THE UNITED STATES. 5 a Reuter's New York correspondent says that thirty-five fresh cases of yellow fever have been ...

... GROSS DECEPTION BY THE HOOGHLY. There are generally two sides to a question, not excepting that of boren Doubtless there are many prepared to aver that there wvas no bore at all to be seen in the river Hooghly on a certain Tuesday, writes a correspondent of the Englishman (Calcutta), who was detailed to see the expected bore; while others will as emphatically maintain that they were vitnesses ...

... HI OPPERS. [By A. Ai.] ALTI-IouGn the farmers' reports this wcek deeim to be somenwhat Ices happy than they were, we chanced upon a prosperous hop-garden inl the nearer regions of Kent, where the crop was confessed to be an unusuallygood one, even by the man who walked alone, softly, knee-deep in the drying hops in the cast-house--an old man , who remembered more harvests than the pickers had ...

... CYCLE RIDES ROUNQD TOWN.-!ll. IN OLD-WORLD ESSEX. FrEW cyclists know how old-world the neglected county of Essex really is. 50 unknown is this part of Eastern England that its ill-earned reputation for flatness and want of interest has lasted since the first guide-book writer .nade the initial mis-statement until the present day. A great gulf separates the West-end and Central Londoner from ...

... MACAULAY'S MARVELLOUS MEMoORY. There iF, an interestingly reminiscent article on 'People I Have Known' in the current Corn/bill by a ladywrvit~iiV uiider the initials of L. F. Some of my earliest recollections, says ~shei, ar of visits to thiehouse of a fi ienidof my -fattier's in Bedf'ord-p~lace, xvhere Ma~cauilay wias a fiequenitguest. Even aS a child I~xxas impiressed ...

... FURTHER EXPERIMENTS AT DOVER. The installation of wireless telegraphy, which will be the most interest- ing scientific accomplishment at the Dover meeting of the British Association, which commences to-morrow was completed. yesterday, the arrangements having been made under the personal supervision of M1r. Marconi and Professor Fleming, the latter 'of whom will have charge of this section; as ...

... TIHE DiOAl)CIVTIC SHOW. reil:t r'i mii the, ?? Mtl? l>h-.Iie -i ii lleveil Ivatetrictz place irrti shlt1t ill ?? 'c,'i''t.'titg his owt Y itti''r sig h f h' i:-ii'il thi [!ilorke o ?? li-iuto i-l. (I asslo n,lii il.sc' ior liinOs~ (Ii ite piittir I ?? after 115. isotlile t' I.*p. \riN 1 ie~. t ( ?? IitIi c III I ,I .iii af ' I - ' tI p -ven~~ ,.I isi'r i to L;, Ir~II'! i i. I soa I. t'siL'et' ...

... THE WAR OFFICEA 0. BY ONE WHO WAS IN IT. Thne Dreyfus ease has doubtlesi made many Engl[ihmeou ask if there can be any resem- blanco botwevn the French War Office and our owen, which at present dwells, like a vast polyp, in the etaves of Pall Mall. If, indeed, thoe house is any index to the individual, thon, of a. surety, oeir War Office is not organic-not a whole, ?? a serios of almost ...

... T -i Ei TRANSVA VXLV ClRISIS. BRITISH FORCES ONN TLE FRONTIER. EXPLAIN ATIOX AShliSE F11R. it . IEIATL IN TilE 1AAD i. - ?? 1k SIR A. MILNER'S REPLY. HEIlE CUNFERNCE Vi R~iIIR E~lER STATE)MENT., C 3011 VNE'SBUiRc PRElAARATIONS. I' lRISE IN Fool) PRICES. FREE STATEr ACTIO N. U I BURGHE 1 R1 L' 1S AA ILNED 1FOR SER iVICE (TraoroTS ?? .t:R'S AGENCY.) !iUIIT-RIA, Sept. 7. si At tilte reluest of ...

... DAILY areWS OMC!z REⅅGS TRIS NIORNUNCG BY rN'GRErTT A-D ZA.UBR.A'S BfAROMETEIL irreded to aea-lerte and rednord o 32 dc'. F. *; he bek linra show the Lelrght of Uie buraoete at I o-ciock on th'11 an.h'! .rr.io' ri o ?? T icot l ons ionltno6 the ,.wtr~.ne oni7inn'h dripo rsn;v:teoe and *bh t nw ?? dy.r. The initial le0t-ro how the din-orotn -f tho emoo. The Nul -nry for Rain. with sh., ...