... s.- w Autumn Handicaps. The entries for the Cesarewitch and Cam bridgeshire will be published in a few days, and it is safe to predict plenty of patronage for both races, as owners know that the betting is good, and like to see their horses running at Newmarket. For the longer race there are several street-corner tips. The Nut is very much fancied by the best judges, while inquiries have been ...

... THE- MAN- ON ^rim-cAiz^ I Speed-Indicators Versus the Police. That the evidence of recognised speed-in dicators should be believed in open court causes a spark of light to glimmer upon the motorist's horizon. Now, as a rule, a reliable speed-indicator fitted with a hand marking the maximum speed obtained has been, and is usually, accepted as evidence in the motorist's favour by the more open ...

... krar-NOTES 4 The Philharmonic Society. The news that the Philharmonic Society has been compelled, at the close of a thoroughly interesting season, to call upon its guarantors for relief to the extent of £400 is distinctly bad. Down to a few years ago, our premier orchestral association seemed to be clinging to early Victorian traditions. It lived, and appeared to thrive, in a sleepy atmosphere ...

... THE INDIAN AT HOME ASSASSINATION THE CRIME AT THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE. i. Lady Wyllik, Wife of the Distinguished Anglo-Indian Official who was Murdered at thk Impkrial Institute Last Wkbk. 2. Sir Lbslry Char lbs Probyn, who Took Part in a Dbspkratk Strugglk with tub Assassin, and had Two Rms Broken. 3. Sir William Hutt Curzon Wyllik, who was Shot Dkad by an Indian Student wiiilb hb was Leaving ...

... THE PRINCESS FOR WHOM THE INFANTE ALFONSO SACRIFICED HIS TITLES AND DIGNITIES A GENUINE ROYAL LOVE MATCH. PRINCESS BEATRICE OF SAXE COBURG GOTHA. WHO HAS MARRIED THE INFANTE ALFONSO OF ORLEANS. WITH THE RESULT THAT THE KING OF SPAIN HAS DEPRIVED HIS COUSIN OF HIS TITLES. PJiotogrnp/i by Uhlenhiith. Princess Beatrice of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, the youngest of the four daughters of the late Duke ...

... JlfE&ED tSB GBEENEP9M i The Mackintoshed Greek. A classical Greek in a modern mackintosh! It sounds incongruous. It was, however, on one occasion realised by Mr. George R. Foss, who produced the Electra of Sophocles last week for the students of Bedford College. Mr. Foss is the producer-in-ordinary to the Oxford University Dramatic Society. On the occasion to which reference is made, he was ...

... THE new Marquess of Ripon is much more a man-of-the- world than was his father. Though so marvellously active a man of affairs, the late Lord always looked a little bit of an antediluvian. That is Ripon or Rip van Winkle, a great personage, seeing him in the distance, once remarked. His successor has no oddity of appearance, unless it be odd to have a wife a head-and-shoulders taller than ...

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... j^jjl jjj^ A STORY, for the truth of which I do not vouch, preceded the King at Knowsley, and caused panic- stricken rinsings and soakings of all green food stuffs in Lady Derby's kitchens. At a family lun cheon, graced by three generations of the royal house, the voice of a little boy was raised towards the head of the table. Grand papa. No answer. Grandpapa, was again sounded. but again ...

... HOW TO KILL YOUR MAN CORRECTLY: DEADLY ATTITUDES. POSITIONS TAKEN BY CRACK SHOTS WITH THE DUELLING PISTOL: AND OTHERS. i. A Position that Must not ub Taken the Pistol Pointed towards the Foot, the Arms Hanging, the Body and Legs Slack. 2. Attention, Feu! Un, Deux, Trois! Crack Shots waiting the Order to Fire at Targets that Are in the Form of Silhouettes of Men. 3. A Pose that was ...

... VERY FOND OF CHILDREN NOT TOO LITERALLY. (BE IX a OJJTt WONDERFUL WORLD.) TO RANK WITH THE TORTOISE AS A GARDEN PET? THE CHEETAH. Evidently, the cheetah is to rival the tortoise as a garden pet. We are told that it is excellent in that capacity, that it is very fond of children, and, lest this last be misunderstood, that it feeds on the same food as does a dog. The one shown in our ...

... A PEERING THROUGH HER FINGERS. EYE, EYE, SIR: A FASCINATING PORTRAIT OF MISS GLADYS COOPER. Photogixiph by Bassatto. C ...