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BY CHANGE BURGLARS ABE SOMETIMES BENEFACTORS. Thief Restored a Family Heirloom--How a Policeman Was Treated. Denis Wood, a noted thief, was recently sentenced to fifteen months' imprisonment for stealing a lady's watch, and the watch was restored to the lady. But Wood made up his mind that he would have that watch, and on his release from gaol, he ags& broke into the same house, and again carried off the watch. A few days later, Wood saw in the local papers that tho watch was a family heirloom, and that in consequence of her second loss, Mrs. Tan-querey, the owner of the article, was completely prostrated, and was under medical treatment. He was struck with remorse, went to the "fence" to whom ho had sold the watch for $75 and offered $100 for its recovery. The fence, however, wanted $150. Wood had not the sum demanded, and was about to give up the idea of recovering the watch, when, in passing Mrs. Tan-querey's house, ho saw the roadway covered with straw, and, on inquiry, learnt that tho old lady was dying. That settled tho matter. He hastened back to the fence's shop, broke in under cover of darkness, and regained possession of the stolen property. Packing it carefully in a box, he sent the article by registered post to the lady's house, and was gratified a month later by reading an account of Mrs. Tanquerey's recovery, dlue, no doubt, to the restoration of THE FAMILY HEIRLOOM. When a man named Sillson, one of those captivating rogues who are ever ready to turn their hand to any kind of villainy, thought he would try a bogus matrimonial advertisement for a change, he little thought what would be the outcome of his To his advertisement describing himself as "a gentleman of independent means anxious to marry," there was a large number of replies. V of them seemed suitable, however, for money-getting purposes, and, disgust, Sillson threw the whole batch away. A few hours later, two young men fished them out ol the canal into which Sillson had thrown them. Laughing uproariously when they discovered what it was they had dropped across, they began to examine the letters from the various ladies. They became interested, and tho matter ended in the young men putting themselves in communication with two of the young ladies whose ph( tographs were inclosed with tho le ters. A double wedding followed not long afterwards. The stranger who created a disturbance recently on the Paris Bourse, or Stock Exchange, hardly realized what It would all lead As he showed some reluctance to when told, several members proceeded to eject him. Then a policeman was called. Forcing his way through the crowd, and seizing the intruder by tho scruff of the neck, he began to BRUTALLY ILL-TREAT HIM. OUR "ONLY" COLUMN. King Edward is the only Sovereign who has actually visited his oversea dominions as reigning Sovereign; this being during his recent tour, wJicn he visited Gibralta and Malta. The only regiment of regulars in the British Army that has not yet been "blooded," that is, that has never been under fire, is the Irish Guards. This regiment was only formed in 1900, as, it will be remembered, the outcome of Queen Victoria's visit to Ireland; and in honor of the splendid work performed by Irish regiments at the front. whose offi- Tho Popo is the only-ruler of any country, cial place of residence accredited, as if he were the chief of state. This is a survival of the days when the Holy Father ruled over a large part of Italy, as temporal as well as spiritual head; at the Vatican all the great powers of Christendom having representatives, with the exception of Great Britain and the United States. Lord Rosebery is the only man who has won the Derby while actually holding the post of Prime Minister. This was in 1894, when he won with Ladas. Curiously enough it was in this year that the House of Commons first refused Derby Day, chief lieutenant .In William Harcourt, tlon of the motio FAMOUS BUNMOW FLITCH, METHOD OF ANCIENT TRIAL IN ENGLAND. It was Instituted Eight Centurie Ago and It Still Flourishes. say roast beef, o Lords. How it tuted by a priory < promote and the >ny.i as English .ng going-House ol me to be insti-monks in order eward conjugal s at present ' as it happened All i inquire, especially eight centuries ago. vouch for is that tho ceremon the trial and award is kept uj just the mock heroics an affai such antiquity demands, and tl that it is as lively as ever is a of the stout good sense of oi costors. Perhaps, as the fo of the institution were celi right word; perhaps we had say predecessors. COURT OF DUXMOW. "full chain old-v orld i and though it was invaded recently by a Bank Holiday contingent of some five thousand'jolly souls. These all found space in the two great, meadows enclosed aud laid out for tl .ply refusal It has | darker hour: Lord Roseber: the Ministry, !■ moved the roj Tho Bourse members then changed their tactics, and fell upon the po' liceman, a man named Vachon. Hi tunic was torn to ribbons, and his cap kicked about the room like football. He was then carried the irate members to the pc station, and reported for bis brutal There was another surprise for a policeman when, a few months ago, plain-clothes constable Dee was set to watch Henry Bull, the licensee of a publichouse in Southwark, who was suspected of allowing his premises to be used for betting purposes, Bull, however, knew perfectly well that he was being watched, and determined to teach the constable a lesson. Said ho to a man named Gully : "That bobby must be a fool to come here. He'll see nothing for it. He wants beer. I'll give him beer, and I wouldn't drink it for twenty quid.' The unsuspecting Deo, who seemed to find the drugged beer extremely unpalatable, only drank a small quantity, throwing the remainder away. Nevertheless, he was made very ill. After all, however, Bui' got his reward for what the magistrate afterwards stigmatised as his "black-guardly" conduct, being mulcted in fines and costs to the extent altogether of $275. It turned out that the man Gully, to whom Bull had been so confiding, was in reality another police-officer ENGAGED IN THE CASE. What the fraternity term "overdoing the game" sometimes has the most unexpected effects on criminal operations. One night recently four Americans made the acquaintance of a Mr. Mossman, an exceedingly wealthy gentleman, in a well-known West-end restaurant. They all went home to chambers in Piccadilly, whore the victim lost $5,000 at cards and dice, a friend he had met and brought along also losing a large amount. When Mr. Mossi he had l fleeced, out his own 1 e, with the re iring e The only csipital in Christendom that has never been captured by a foreign foe is London. This means, of course, captured and held by an army of occupation, who have retired after the declaration of peace, as in the case of the capture and occupation of, and subsequent retirement from Paris, by the Germans in 1870-71; and not as in the conquests by tiie Romans and Normans and others of England, in ancient times. Sir Oeorge Stuart White is tho only man entitled to place after his name the following letters : F.M., V.O., G.C.B., G.C.S.I., O.C.M.G., G.C.I.E., G.C.V.O. The first two of course, denote his rank in tho Army of Field Marshal; the next Victoria Cross; and the others the first class of nil the five orders of, respectively, the Bath. Stnr of India, St. Michael and St. George, Indian Emolre, and Victorian Order. Not even any Royalty possesses all tho above. The only man who, single-handed and without any official standing or even legislative position, has persuaded the British Gc the taking of a great step pean importance, is Mr. Greenwood, tho great j This was the purchase of'the Suez Canal shares. In 1875 Mr. ( Gazette, a post he held from first issue in 1867 of the .papc 1880, and in that capacity learnt that the Khedive of Egypt lowing his shares in the Suez Canal to be sold to a French syndicate. Instead of publishing the important news, he patriotically took it to the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, the Earl of Derby, and advised him to purchase the shares on behalf of the Government. Lord Derby doubted the news, as the British Consul at Cairo knew nothing of it. Mr. Greenwood insisted it true, none the less. Eventually a telegram was sent to the British Consul; the Prime Minister, then Mr. Disraeli, was seen, and soon negotiations were opened and the purchase completed. Roughly, Britain paid something over twenty million dollars for the shares which now bring in upwards of $4,000,000 a , besides giving her power politically. REVIVAL OF SNUFF-TAKING. Fashion's pendulum is forev he swing. Inquiries made i tobacco trade insignificant part of social life, says the London Mail. steady increase has been notei the consumption of snuff. A both ends of the social ladder, too for, like tho pipe, snuff knows n< distinctions of rank or intellect. "A dirty habit" tho use of it has ndeed been called, but devotees mce join issue here with the c wmcrs of tobacco in other for: and claim that if a ballot wore taken mothers, wives, sisters and hearts, the smoker and no snuff-taker would be banished the household. ile "Ichabod' enjoying themselves until the " nd the Trial mead-looked as well and as bravo by moonlight as in the wealth of hot white sunshine which trial day's weather brought. The court met in an ample mar. quee, with one end filled by a dais or platform, and on this the applicants took their sent. Opposite them was a iury of six nervous bachelors and six pretty lasses of the neighborhood, whose only form lest they themselves should not get sufficient prominence. There was a comedy judge, on a comedy throne, and an audience of four or five hundred people perched on benches. The only really serious person apparently was the promising voting counsel, retained by the donors of the flitch to deed it from all comers. THOROUGHLY AMUSING. Thirty-six couples had applied this year, and the preliminary committee, in submitting two of these, granted two flitches, and these* hung aloft In triumph in the middle of the tent, a mark for envious glances, and any jokes tho counsel could extract from so humorous an illustration. The two matrimonial recitals caused the greatest mirth for a couple of hours, and in the end of course both couples won. They attested there had never been cross words between them, and their behaviour came out creditably yesterday in the fierce light that beats upon the Dunmow inquisition. Altogether a blameless ceremony, full of fine old English c character, and the wonde not been imitajtod by i ™e happy couples i the last, and ttus is that the Trial of the 1 up in perfect taste and dclica SOME LYING QUITE PROPER. In a recently published pamphlet a Parisian professor of theology discriminates between legitimate and illegitimate lying. The title of the publication is "Lying Properly So-called," and it is published by the permission of the vicar-general. The book consists of a set of rules for the regulation of lying for the benefit, it is expressly stated, of "timid, simple souls who often find a moral stumbling block in the fact that truth is not always possible or desirable." Illustrations are given. According to the professor's definition, a lie consists of an endeavor to deceive someone who has a right to know the truth. Permissible lies may be brought under two heads, those told to guard a secret and those told in self-defence. These include lies told to avoid revealing confidence, lies to the enemies of one's country, and even lies whose only purpose is to save the teller's own skin, as, for instance, a witness In a law court may legitimately lie if he has grave reason to fear resentment of the Criminal, or if tho evidence required of him would damage his own char- A wife may deceive her husband on the subject of fidelity, regarding her crime as a secret which ought to tho confessor has be kept, all i the ' to the asks questions concerning a sin which has already been absolved, or questions concerning the temporal affairs of his penitent. Illustrations are given of circumstances wherein children may lie to parents, pupils Or teachers and servants to masters. A servant, if he or she fears from frankness, some notable detriment to himself or herself, has sufficient reason for not speaking the truth. The professor, in order to forstall criticism, assures his readers that many "Purl-tans" will object to this point of view, "there being still," he says, "many hypocrites in tho world." Desirous of basing his theories on religion, the professor seek? for a precendent in the New Testament, disregarding the t and stringent tcachi _ ject of lying that runs through the j The ,otatlon of -.p™ Jo-_ Gospels and Epistles. The profes- j lockel... might be said to havc been uPPorte.a °y! established with the discovery of L Sainthill. It has been estimated MOUNTAINS UNDER THE SEA. It was at the captain's table on an Atlantic liner, recently, that a young woman idly Inquired how far the ship was from the nearest land. Several passengers would have said off-hand, "About eight hundred miles." But the captain turned over the question to a quiet gentleman, who looked at his watch and at a chart, and amazed his hearers by answering. "Just about seventy yards." A writer in the Strand Magazine gives the explanation : "The land I speak of is just thirty six fathoms beneath this ship," continued the captain's friend, who was an expert oceanographer. "It is the summit of the Laura Ethel Mountain, which is twenty thousand feet above the lowest level of the Atlantic basin. If it were some two hundred feet higher, or the sea were two hundred feet lower, you would call it an island." In effect, tho Atlantic is a huge continent boasting a superficial area of twenty-five million square miles. It is nine thousand miles long and two thousand seven hundred broad. The depth of the water which covers it is by no means so considerable as people used to imagine. Oceanography as a science may be said date only from about 1850; bu thanks chiefly to the labors of t cable-laying and cable-repairing ships --our knowledge of the configuration of tho bed of tho ocean grows greater every year. The Laura Ethel Mountain, discovered in 1878, is the uppermost peak of one of the most celebrated of the submarine elevations in the Atlantic. Mount Chaucer, at tho eastward of it, was revealed to oceanographers in 1850. Sainthill, which i s westward of both, has the honor to be the first mountain discovered in the Atlantic. It became known to science in 1832. Prior to the laying of the first Atlantic cable, Lieutenant Maury, U. S.N., made it known that a wide plateau exists beneath the ocean, running from Ireland to Newfoundland. It seemed so admirably suited to the purpose of cable-laying that he modestly called it Telegraph-u; but in the newest charts tho di is presumably _ . general, deduces a singl< instance. Lord," he says, "certainly knew everything about the last day, and when He declared of that day that the hour knoweth no man, no, not tho angels which are in Heaven, neither the Sen, He merely exercised the right of every man to keep a CHINESE CUSTOMS. Boats arc drawn by horses; Old women, instead of the 3 are the idols of society. Old men play boll and fly while children fold their arms The highost ambiiion of a 1 nt and it does not c ne of lesser value. Men wear long petti male and female pre u marriage. For thi 1 seldom weds a girl Dve making is done tl dust 1 Old ! icated with j £er It that tho I " be a well- iber of the LOld the: EW USE FOR BURGLARS. Iro Monhez, a Seville merchant, awakened by a noise at his bed-l door. He found a burglar on step, and, at the revolver's 3 step inside while the merchant still he dressed. A held the revolve le compelled valet. Then rarded snuffbox, the gentle nuff-taking has been sedously culti 'ated by high and low. Among the poor in tho East End of London snuff is in great demand, scarcely a tobacconist but keeps te variety of it in stock. Many t End shops, on the other hand, ire snuff altogether. There Is profit in snuff," said the mana-of one of these establishments, id the sale of it would bring us lass of customers which we don't Some houses are specially noted for snuff. They are old-fashioned places, situated oftener than not in the quiet side streets, and they carry-on a "growing" business with an aristocratic and well-to-do clientele. Tho printers of Fleet street are said be large consumers of snuff. MUSIC KILLS MOSQUITOES, lokbine, Massachusetts, In periments are being made with novel method of destroying mosquitoes by means of musical notes. It is asserted that a certain number of musical vibrations will cause these pests to become suddenly paralysed, whereupon they fall from the coiling 1 all bra; ittsburg Press. •age honesty and since ntial clerks and salesmc tagc he firms egular salary. business, besides When a Chinaman he shakes and sqi hands and covers his head. If great friends had not seen each other for a long time they would rub should- itil they 1 few make applicat ; gets applicants; ire paid to the oftei ! Of t ! Ial ELECTRIC FARMS. the Power Is Utilized In Germany. In the application of electricity to everyday work Germany has, perhaps, gone further than any other nation. Electrically heated and operated cookine and laundry appara-there, but the igle development is that at the base of the eminence tho reiics of not fewer than five thousand wrecks lie scattered. Or one might ascribe that gruesome distinction to the Faraday Hills, discovered in 1883, and lying betw-een Mount Chaucer and Laura Ethel Mountain. These hills are noted amongst oceanographers for tho amount of wreckage of which they are the monument. There are cavernous depths, of course, in tho Atlantic, as well as majestic heights. Four miles and a half may- be taken to be the greatest. The average is probably about English miles. Height! most striking sir the electrical farm. Take, for example, the Quendnau Farm, which covers 450 acres, and its dairy handles 1,000 gallons of milk daily. Every part of this farm is lighted by electricity, and is in telephonic communication with every other part. The dairy has an electrical churn; tho barn contains electrically operated feed and carrot cutting machines, and even the grindstone is turned by a small belt from the shaft connected with the barn The water-pumping apparatus is run by electricity; all the buildings aro lighted by incandescent lamps, and there is an electrical indicator at the doors of all the housei farm has also its own threshi _ grist mill, tho machinery of which is turned by a current from the iature central station; and finally there is a small sawmill, which gets its power from the the farm are all kinds of electrical agricultural machines. The power for all these various operations-- lighting, heating, telephones, churning, cutting, grinding, pumping, threshing. and sawing-- 2s from a 50-horse power st ;ry engine working two dyr From this station the power distributed to all parts of the far: and the switch-board is so plain marked that the ordinary farm-hand regulate ely hidden land, ne day 'be exposed by comparatively lew Beneath tho ocean frosts, no lightnings, meteorological agents If it were not for the depths alike which may the mighty Meantime changes go no glaciers, at work. eddies, and the destl cumulation of animal life, these Atlantic hills and vales might rest as immutable as "the peaks and craters of the moon," where there is no atmosphere to cause decay. always borrow the strength of having a tobody would advance him ho had a dozen daughters, r is responsible for the is father for three grmera-e latter is only rcspm, ! !o bts of her own husband. SWIFT JUSTICE. A legal record h Lexington, Louisville Maysville senger wh and Nashville tri 7as stopped and was fighting on I. He was taken tried, fined, and caught tho gain, all in the space of ten LLANFYLLIN'S LADIES. Llanfyllin, North Wales, can claim the distinction of having a lady bar-a lady doctor, and a lady lamplighter. The lady barber is sixty-years of age, and for the last forty years has handled the razor daily; tho lady lamplighter is fifty-four, and carries a ladder slung over her shoulders to light tho lamps. GIFTS TO THE LATE POPE. Valuable gifts to the Pope were 100,000 francs--sixteen pastorals gold and precious stones, 884 gold and silver stands for the Host, en gold and silver statues, and at A PRESIDENT'S SALARY. The smallest salary paid to tho ^'10 , head of a civilized Government is """'$15 a year to tho President of the Republic of Andorra, in the Pyrenees. Earl Roberts is the only member who has gained that highest of British honors, the most noble Order of the Garter, with his sword; and the only Knight of the Order ever known has also possessed the Victoria ____is. The latter he won in his first campaign, the Indian Mutiny, and the former in his last, the South African War. The ■ projuc.it in that the defendant sonsoless, and then head and face for £ he knocked you senseless, magistrate, "how do yot he kicked you after you wor The witness reflected. "I 1 he replied, "'cause that's 'a' done tp him if I'd got 1 --so thersl" had knocked him kicked him in the iveral minutes. "If asked the VALUE OF THE EGG CROP. of Preci- Rusoia is the largest seller of eggs t the world. She sells to foreign countries 150,000,000 dozen eggs nearly every year. In 1896 she sent abroad 1,475,000,000 eggs; in 1897, 1,737,000 and in 1898 1,831,000,-000. Her sales are all the time increasing. China is supposed to be the largest producer of eggs in the world. There is no such thing as statistics of poultry products in China, but there arc over 400,000,000 persons)"- • in that empire who are very fond of j eggs; it takes a good many eggs supply them. The humblest farm has bens in plenty, and they do t best to supply the demand. Tl is little doubt that China takes cake as an egg producer. Her tire supply is usually consumed home, though she sometimes mane to spare a few lor Japanese cons' IN MERRY OLD EMLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Commercial World. Since the commencement of this year 23,150 new members have joined the Primrose League. A monument depicting an artist at work will probably be erected over the grave of the late Phil May. Princess Henry of Battonbury unveiled at Newport, Isle of Wight, a memorial to the late Queen. The King it is stated, Is sending a present of cattle to the French President from his Windsor farm. A largo number of expelled French monks aro now settling in the Roman Catholic diocese of Southwark. Tho Duke of Westminster, accompanied by Col. Wilford Lloyd, will leave for South Africa on October 10th. Leeds corporation is taking steps > enlarge tho city boundary by taking in the districts of three suburban councils. Tho dearth of apples is causing grave concern to Devon cider makers many of tho orchards have not yielded a single apple. The King has approved tho appointment of Mr. Evelyn Grant Duff to bo First Secretary of his Majesty's Legation at Teheran.. Smallpox is greatly on the increase in Newcastle and district. Fresh notices have been issued with regard to the necessity for vaccination. The total amount of taxes and rates paid by British railway companies in 1885, 1892 and 1902 was £1,773,634, £2,368,556 and £4,227-598 respectively. A Burnham man was fined a crown ir drunkenness at Beaconsfteld (Bucks) Sessions, and the police offi-who proved the offence paid the fine. Lincolnshire farm which cost £30.000 several years ago only had £9,950 offered for it at a sale by iain Maylin, of Sydney road, New Southgate, Middlesex, who has just celebrated his 100th birthday, has 236 descendants. Aged 100 years, the oldest Oddfel-iw in the world has died. He was John Hill, a retired bookseller, who asscd away at Derby recently. Mis. May Garner, who has Just celebrated ' her lOOth birthday at Luton Workhouse, says she has only regret--she has never been to London. Mrs. Rix, a native of Lowestoft, celebrated her 101st birthday at •wicb recently. She still makes own bed each morning, and does the sewing for the household. A lad aged 12, at StokeKchurch, Bucks, aimed at a bird with a gun, hen the weapon exploded, and another boy, aged five, received the charge in his head, was killed. Oapt. Matthew Brown, who was the first European to open up trade with Yokohama, in July, 1889, when he was master of the barque Countess of Seaiield, has died at Hornsea, aged 82 years. Two eminent army medical men have declared in a blue book that there is no primary connection between enteric fever and dysentery, but that they appear together through a common origin in dirt. A joint committee has been appointed by the council of King's College and the committee of the hospital, to consider the question of a new hospital site. If the governors' decision is favorable £300,000 will be required. Mrs. Elizabeth Greaves, aged 54, was awarded £125 damages at Leeds for injuries caused by a motor car belonging to Mr. Thomas Whit-aker, of Newlay. She sustained concussion of the brain and fracture of the skull. A Bloxwich mine fireman named Davies mysteriously disappeared early on Bank Holiday whilst he was at work in a pit. All efforts to discover him have failed, and it is thought that he was buried beneath a fall of coal. The total number of paupers in London was higher last quarter than it has been in the corresponding vy year since 1872. Great Britain is the largest buyer of foreign eggs in the world. Of course no English breakfast table is complete without eggs as a complement to its toast and marmalade. Great Britain buys every year an average of 1,500,000,000 eggs from about twenty countries; and this is only 40 per cent, of tho consumption. British hens manage to produce hree-fifths of the eggs that the lomo market demands. In 1901 Russia sold to England 539,053,000 eggs, and tho next largest sellers ' Belgium, Denmark, Germany, ice, Egypt and Morocco. Great ain spent $26,745,194 in the purchase of eggs in 1901. THE HAPPIEST HEART. Who drives the horses of the sun Shall lord it but a day; Better the lowly deed was done, And kept the humble way. The rust will find the sword of fame, The dust can hide the crown; ye, none shall nail his name so high The happiest heart, 1 Was in some quiet That found the c ziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it. The 'eye of a master will do more work than both his hands. •, was laid at ntess of Derby. , £3,500. days' meeting at Yarmouth are divided between local charities, and this year the amount so distributed has reached £1,000. The parish church and Gorlestone church both again receive donations from the turf profits. WHY SHE WAS FROSTV. A young gentleman, whose gallantry was largely in excess of his pecuniary moans, sought to remedy this defect and save the money required for the purchase of expensive flowers by arranging with a gardener to lot him have a bouquet from time to time in return for his cast-off It thus happened one day that he received a bunch of 1 he most beautiful roses, which he at once sent onto his lady-love. In sure anticipation oi' a friendly welcome he called at tho house of the lady the same stonishmp "Certaini "To be