... A Chat on Monsoons. The Pioneer Moil cootaina an article on the pas. monsoon in India, based upon the official reports of rainfall between June and October. These reports show a generally satisfactory state of affairs, about half the country having had ...

... A CHAT WITH BRIGHAM YOUNG. in 1P64 the Bishop went to Utah and slaw much of Mormon capital. He was introduced to President Brigham Young. and had • conversation with him. Tbe book contains an excellent' 'description of this extraordinary man: Not at ...

... downwards. In September, 1887, he had a long chat with John Bright in a railway-carriage. They were travelling to Scotland: I had the good fortune of meeting John Bright, and travelling with him as far as Grantown. He had made a mistake in going so far, as he ...

... A SAILOR'S CHAT WITH PRINCESS. In A Sailor's Log: Recollections of Foety Years of Naval Life,' Rear-Admiral Robley Evans, of the United States Navy, has given a well-written and interesting autobiography. Here is a specimen of Admiral ...

... CONTEMPORARY CHAT-, A. thdartmoste Name. The new Pope. in deciding to be known as Plus, has assumed a name which has anything bat $ fortunate record in the history of the Papacy. The int plus, who ruled in the second century, was martyred. No Pope took ...

... the proprietor who offered a man 0750 and a year's agreement to edit a paperbut added: Of course, you know that's £l,OOO , and Ave years' agreement at the Trees Club. It will Tate a good impression about my new publication. A Bridge for ...

... is . Froducing a whirls it name, Le B.k:sierras'. 'There is *heady in Paris a bicycle-lamp calltd Le Zola. Ali the.; want now. may. the Sketch. is . a office: tt ride the machine. a Pat- de Clam men enary rimpre to applaud bin,, a ...

... lieneva's wonderful azure is well known, whilst Lucerne is of a greenish hue. A . little lake in the Yellowstone Park is of a vivid pink, but this is owing, no doubt, to chemicals in Ills water. A North African river is black and shay, like very slightly ...

... carried on, especially among young women and girls, by a married ma. than a celibate; and he therefore resolved to enter the state of matrimony, choosing as the partner of his joys and sorrows a member of a wellknown girls' club in his parish. The bride is ...

... Great Seal as a personal memento of his °Sea, but Lord Loreburs, it will be observed, has surrendered it to his successor, Viscount Haldane.. The custom of retention only applies, says a correspondent, when there is a substitution of a new Seal for an ...

... lahelled SO, U.S.A. This is not the first instance of a pseudonym being suggested by initial letters. A.L.0.E., for example. whose books found a place in the nurseries of twenty years ago, may have been A Lady Of England to her publishers ...

... one. • And what had vou I said to a tnwper. 'Oh, I had half a sardines to share with a chum, one cigarette, and tin of inert powder; it was kindly intended '—with a wry face, half a smile, he added—• but inadequate; half ...