... If there is one thing more than A PLEA adother-apart from its dalaes3 FJB -which characterises the wiater ouRSRLVEb. Sdallon at Rhyl it is the eaargy with which the various charitable agencies aod organizations in this town carry on their praiseworthy wotk. Not only do they help the objact they seek to promote bat they also help in a 1 \re meaaare to relieve the otherwise insufferable monotony ...

... We do not necessarily endorse he our correspondents.—ED.} DEAR Sin,-f am glad to learn that Mr Arm- strong never said that teetotallers are of very low intellect, but that they are not of the standard of Gladstone, &c.; bat, my dear sir, Gladstones are not to be met with every day. and this country has as yet only produced one. Perhaps we do not all agree aa to what constitutes greatness, ...

... Mr. Louis Petrie, French master at the Working Men's College, Great Ormond Street, and at Alleyn's School, Dulwich, for twenty-one years has been missing since October 28th. Mr. J. H. Marsland, secretary of the school, explained to Mr. Francis at Lambeth Police Court on Saturday that the professor was last seen at Hollowly on the afternoon of that day. He was somewhat worried by the responsi- ...

... EPITOME OF NEWS. Mr. Brynmor Jones Q.C., M.P., has been elected a Bencher of the Middle Temple. Professor Ferdinand Tiemann, who occupied the Chair of Chemistry at Berlin University, is dead. A short but very strong shock of earthquake has been felt at Verona, in Italy, causing a panic among the inhabitants. The Labour Gazette warns English workmen against taking the risk of a journey to Paris ...

... The general ineffectiveness of the Boer shells has aroused a belief that they are not filled with explosives. Bisnop Brindle, D.S.O., consecrated a piece of ground at Wembles id which the bodies at present in the vaults of St. Mary's, Moorfields (which is to be pulled down) will be reinterred. Mr. Algernon Peel, private secretary to the Lord- Lieutenant of Ireland, having been advised to leave ...

... The charge against Edward Beall, solicitori Charles Singleton, agent; William James Car- t'uthers Wain, engineer; and Thomas Harrison Lambert, indicted for conspiring to defraud by means of false prospectuses and balance sheets relating to the London and Scottish Banking and Discount Corporation, was concluded at the Old Bailey on Saturday. In summing up, Mr. Justice Chaunell said the case was ...

... If the plush is shabby-looking and pressed, put it on when obhged to go out in a fog, or fine misty rain, for an hour. On returning, hang the garment up in a warm room till next morning. Care should be taken in hanging the cloak carefully so as not to draw it out of shape. This treatment, freshens aud cleanses and raises the pile,so that it looks like new. ...

... Take one ounce of spirits of turpentine, mix this with half an ounce of mealy potatoes, add some of the best Durham mustard, with a little vinegar; mix all ingredients well together, and lay a little on the spots. When dry, and well rubbed, the spots will be removed. ...

... Mr. Ceorge Farrer, a South African mining magnate, has given E500 to the Natal Irregulars to Drovide medical and other comforts. At the instance of two Liberals Caithness County Council has unanimously adopted resolu- tion expressing strong disapproval of the altitude assumed by Dr. Clark, the member for the county, in connection with South African affairs. Several thousand pounds worth of ...

... On Tuesday afternoon Hugh Lloyd, fifty-three, an iron moulder, committed suicide in Fitzalan Street, Lambeth,. His wife returned from doing some shopping, and found him hanging from a peg on the room door. She did not think of cuttiv him down, but told the landlady, who sent for the police. Lloyd had been out of employment, ...

... On Monday afternoon, at the Law Courts, Nuneaton, Dr. C. W. Iliffe conducted an enquiry into the death of an Attleborough ribbon-weaver named Glenn, seventy-three, who met with his death on Sunday morning under peculiar circum- stances. Deceased lived with his son and daughter, and retired to rest on Saturday night. At eight a.m. on Sunday, the son on descending the staircase discovered the ...

... The Cheshire coroner was apprised on Sun. day of a sad drowning case at Barnton, North- wich on Saturday night. Joseph Jones, aged thirty-eight, of Dudley Port, captain of two boats belonging to Messrs. Simpson and Davis, of Runcorn and Liverpool, was navigating Barnton Tunnel on the Staffordshire Canal, when he was dragged over his vessel by a rope. The tunnel is pitch dark, and all attempts ...