... SHOCKING ACCIDENT TO A GAME- KEEPER. Thomas Alcock, under-gamekeeper to Coionel France, of Hayhurst, Bostock Hall, Northwich, has been the victim of a serious shooting accident. While stooping a tree bough fell upon the wire of an alarm gun in a oover, and it exploded full in the man's face, which was riddled. He was picked up blind and bleeding, and taken to the Manchester Eye Institution, ...

... If there are any special plants in the beds or border it is necessary to keep through the winter they ought to be lifted and potted now to give time for new roots to form before winter. The plants need not be taken indoors till frost is near. The windows might be made gay now with early-flowering Chrysanthemums. Pot bulbs for winter flowering Roman Hyacinths are very fine this season, but the ...

... True progress requires study of the human. ities and counter movements of Study of science. which develops individuality. ...

... T?ATiTTTOT/DI s colossal statue of Liberty Enlightening the World, at the entrance of New York Harbour, is apparently to have a rival. O'Sullivan, the Minister of Public Works in New South Wales, proproses to erect in Sydney Harbour a similar gigantic statue of Australia Facing the Dawn. IT is said that there are hardly any Boers in Pretoria. The place is garrisoned mainly by Germans, who ...

... In a boarding school at Cappelle-au-Bois, near Malines, a boy eleven years old, of Antwerp parents, being taken very ill, the headmaster sent for the parents, when it was discovered that the undermaster had beaten him until he had rup- tured the boy's internal organs. The boy died two hours after his return home. The Antwerp Procureur-General is proceeding with his investigations of the case. ...

... A t, nit auuuuuueu Itll Irt)uenv meeting or Slaters, Limited, that the firm have contracted to cater for the British and Colonial section in the Trocadero Gardens at the Paris Exhibition. Lord Salisbury has sent a message of thanks to the Russian Government f or the cordial reception given to H.M.S. Melita at Odessa. The message was received with much satisfaction. The Queen has ap pointe d ...

... RHYL v. CHIRK. (Combination.) GRAND GAME. [BY PHILLIP.] Beautiful weather prevailed on Saturday, when Chirk played Rhyl on the Belle Vue Athletic Grounds before a fair crowd. The locals have faired badly up to Saturday in the Combination tournament, having played three matches, and in each case their rivals have in- flicted upon them crushing defeat. The first two matches of the seson were ...

... IN NOVEMBER. Sombre, and gray, and lonesome, The solemn twilights fall- And even the sunset crimsons Burn dimmer along the wall; And faint, with a far-off glory, The silent planets shine, While the crystal cup of the darkness O'erflows with a ghostly wine. The wine of the withered roses The purple Night distils, When the breath of the fading summer Is sweet on the dreaming hills And the ...

... Copyright.) THE STORY OF SOME CHRISTMAS CHIMES. BY ADELINE SERGEANT, Author of Caspar Brooks' Daughter, Christmas Rose, &c. Believe in ghosts? No, I don't believe in ghosts exactly, but I've had one or two queer experiences in my time. One in particular— one that I've never heard any explanation of, and don't want to explain. Like to hear the story, sir 1 It isn't the common every-day ...

... Sir Anchitel Ashburnham, Bart., has died at Broomham, Hastings. The condition of the Rev. Professor Shuttle- worth, of St. Nicholas Cole Abbey, has much improved. Bishop Barry has had one of his fingers crashed by a carriage door on the District Railway at Victoria Station. An elderly man-one of the unemployed- jumped from the parapet of the Tower Bridge into the Thames recently, but was ...

... Two passenger trains collided on Monday morning at Salida, Colorado, on the Denver and Rio Grande Railway. ...

... AN IMPORTANT POINT. At Woolwich Police Court, on Saturday seven hairdressers were summoned by the Woolwich District Hairdressers' Association for exercising their trade contrary to Act 2f of Charles II., ch. 7.—Mr. Greeness prose- cuted, and said he had two witnesses in each case to prove that defendants carried on theii calling on Sundays. He maintained that hair- dressing was a trade within ...