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Xr : /^CCTS*MECu\ / SIR \ ? j THOMAS L IP TON f ==~^\ ATTEMPTS TO J E=~ y^LiFTTHECUP.y P" oiw B present herewith a reeen portrait of Sir Thoiua: W Llpton, merchant princi 1 JLJL ] illiu [)I1U11' Ul SUUU Itnuno /^|j Lanl fighter and most de sirnble of antagonists. . Sir Thomas lias already taken a grea ^ deal from this country in the shape o experience. like most of his country &NS5$? .' A RECENT PORTRAIT < men who have come here with their eyes open. His rise was phenomenal; I his life rivals in interest that of Sir Richard Whittington whose famous cat Is of nursery fame. From a stowaway to one of the richest merchants on earth, from :i worker In the rice swamps of South Carolina to the possessor of millions?from such beginnings did Sir Thomas Johnstone Upton rise in a few years by his industry; and while he has made a huge fortune for himself, he vastly benefited the poor of London and other great cities by supplying good provisions at ^ cheap prices. We hear and read a great deal about the obstacles in the way of young men In England, when those young men have to start from the ground at the foot of the ladder. Sir Thomas is a i \. 1 , FULL REVELATION TO AMERH BASIN JUST AFtEIi THE V proof that much more depends on tht uian thau on the eircumstauces. H< eays that he used to work twenty-fiv< .hours out of the twenty-four. Wbei he floated his business as a joiut stocl . company he was able to take a littli rest. He out his working hours ti eighteen. He took up yachting witl ithe same intensity that he ran hi: business: and that is why lie has pro duced so much impression on the Amer lean sport-loving public. He sirapl: ^ doesn't know when he is beaten. Lipton is of Scotch-Irish blood. H is tall, straight, athletic, always wel dressed, well groomed, always unas suming. His father was a wage .worker. When the son was flfteei years old he sailed for America to seel his fortune. The capital with whicl he started business was $500. lent t him by his father. He came into prom > iuence by a deed of charity. Th Princess of Wales, to celebrate Quee; .Victoria's jubilee, started a fund t L give dinners to the outcast poor o London. The fund languished unt; an unknown donor gave it ?25,00 ($125,000). Rumor had it for a whil that William Waldorf Astor was h l who recognized how hard it is for f hungry man to rejoice, even at hi Queen's jubilee. It turned out tha i Upton gave the money. The Princes I oC Wales sent him a magnificent dit ? mcrnd scarfpin Christmas, and shortl | afterward he was knighted. 1 As a result of his first attemnt tn Hi the cup Sir Thomas made such a vorable impression upon those "w beat him that, to console him and the same time to express their admi tiou for his sportsmanlike qualiti his friends and "well-wishers present him with a $5000 loving cup, which, is supposed, he has frequently lift in his endeavor to solace himself l having failed to lift the other, t A few. figures concerning the ci 3 of the pastime in which Sir Thomas ? indulging so freely should be of terest: TT ? /> nrnAnPA AP 1I*^I - I ne t'MiUiilU'U Ult" I'AlM.lkT ui ins fort to set the Cup in ISO!) at $800,0 t That, however, included $400,000 whi f he paid to Count Florio of Italy 1 - the tine yacht which the count call )F SIR THOMAS LIFTON. " ' the Aegusa, and which is now knov ; as the Erin. This would leave t actual racing expenses in 1899 at $40 : 000. It is probable that the cost the second races to him was a litt over that figure, but still within $50* ' 000. In other words, including t] sum of 5000,000 or thereabouts f the purchase and refitting of the Eri the total cost to the challenger in tl last two series of races was somewhe iu the neighborhood of $1,300,00 But the cost of the Erin is not, course, a legitimate factor in the es mate of the actual racing expense Probably these last for both seri were about $850,000. t\*?/\rvAfi nn/1 A/smli J/fitYUlf; liie ^iiv.111 auu tuiiui to the collateral expenses, there is j the largest item the cost of runnii the steam yacht Erin, for, say, the tv r ~ iE3BM?^^S&'-iBiW^r.?tf'' ^^^" - ' ' ~ f -iz . r'T^ S: JANS OF THE LINES OF SHAMROI V AT Eli WAS PUMPED OUT?CR] y months she actually is in service ? connection with the races. This w ? estimated by a man familiar with t i suoject at jju.uw a raonm?$ou,uuu J all.?New York Commercial Advertls* -j The Courageous Mr*. Dailry. t Many a housewife will find i-omfi s in the proceeding instituted l>y M Dailey, of Iudianopolis, against a ci pet cleaner. Mrs. Dailey wanted soi y rugs cleaned because she was going "have company," and she want e them in a hurry. She called in Milt I D. Plunkett, who owns the steam c pet ^beating works. He promised deliver the rugs the next mornii [j Owing to a breakdown of his mach [j cry he was unable to fulfil his part t! the contract, so he took the rugs bs o uneleaaed. Mrs. Dailey disappro\ i. strongly. She lured Mr. Plunkett a e the rugs into her back 3-ard, and th u with a persuasive revolver, compel o the man to beat all the rugs by ha r until thev werp flenn. He thoncht il would report the matter to the poll 0 but later decided to let it rest iu 1 e hope that uo one would hear of it. e did not count on Mrs. Dailey. a g In Writing "AiIb." it "It i3 a good idea," remarks a m is of experience, "to assume that peo >. know nothing about your business a y the goods you sell, and that it is y< duty and privilege to enlighten th '< on these Doints." X fa IA PORTABLE HOUSE llO at Can Be Put Together in a Half Hour j ? * ?a l:I. A .j.i: .. i a- r or nuiDiQUSue nuuiuniuuauau. e?' F. W. Barker has devised a portable . house to meet the need of suitable ' storage-room for automobiles, says the Springfield Republican. The house is made in sections, and can be put up PORTABLE AUTOMOBILE HOUSE. or takcu down in a short time, as there is not c. nail used in the whole process. The house is made of pine, and the roof is covered with chemically-prepared duck or pressed steel in imitation of shingles. Both of these roofs are waterproof and the latter is absolutely fireproof. The house is mado in sections within the factory and these sections are put together wherever the owner wishes. The device is used not only for automobile houses, but for houses for boats, launches, bicycles, summer cottages, children's playhouses and other purposes. Its primary use, however, is for automobiles. Such a house can be bought from $75 up, and when it is considered that the cost of storing an automobile for a season at the seashore Is about $40 and in the city about $23, so far as expense is concerned, the new idea is an economizcr. The fact that the house can be moved from place to place makes It convenient for those who change their location frequently, and as nothing but a few screws and bolts are used in its erection, it is not p permanent fixture on the land where it is put up. Means are provided for ventilation, and the solid earth furnishes the floor of the house. Used as a summer cottage, it can be taken to the seashore one summer and the next to the mountains. It takes about a day to turn out a house, and about half an hour to put one up. Things Not to Do. It is bad to make remarks about the food at dinner. To talk about things "which only interest yourself. To contradict your friends when they are speaking. To grumble about your heme and relatives to outsiders. rn To say smart things which may hurt lis one's feelings. t).- To dress shabbily in the morning beof cause no one will see you. :Ie To be rude to those who serve you, 5.- either in shop or at home. lie To think first of your own pleasure or when you are giving a party. n- To refuse ungraciously when somebody wishes to do you a favor. re To behave in a street sar or train '0* as if no one else had a right to be of there. 10 speau aisrespecuuuy ui uny uue >s- older thau yourself.?The Gem. es A Spry Fanner. ig j Uncle Ned Giggory of Fort Fairfield, as Me., is the oldest man in his part of the ig State. He celebrated his ninety-uinth ro birthday on the 24th of May. and the m . . , i- . V ?* ' - l . ' ... --r't . 1 ,*"V i '.&w j ' ^ ^ L'K III., IN DRY DOCK AT ERIE EW ERECTING SCAFFOLDING. in celebration took trie form oC planting as an acre of potatoes, which acre ha he cleared of brush last winter., la 9^ A Motor Totjue. The motor toque here sketchfd is a very clever invention of English de3rt sign. It is a soft mounted tricornc r8, shape, extremely becoming to all faces. lir* and charming either for town or counnie try driving. The little "weather cur* t0 tain" at the back is a dexterous addition, and when not required forms a on portion of the toque, and is fastened ar "g- BBI in- EPBIf of lck -J? " em down on to the crown with neat hut. ton oil atrans A REMARKABLE 4 WATER TOWER | It Has Just Been Erected at Manches* I tip, England. g The erection of a water tower for B the British Westinghouse Electric and ^ Manufacturing Company's Works, at ^ Manchester, has just been completed. _ This building, of which we give an Iffc illustration, is constructed mainly of I steel, and its lofty proportions form a J conspicuous landmark for many miles ||j= round the works. lis The tower (which has been construct- . ed for the purpose of supporting two large tanks for the storage of a largo 01 volume of water under constant high s,ei .. tin pressure) is placed on tne soiuuern limit of the grounds of the works, far ?e removed from all the buildings. It is he octagonal in plan, the eight legs being 'u ? 1? pa * q n j wt THE WATER TOWER OP THE NEW WESTINOHOU5E WORKS IK LONDON. ^ supported on granite blocks, and the tio extreme height of the tower is 210. Ibl feet. The three lightning darts are tht sheathed in copper, and the.v, together with the forearm and the hand holding str them, form the extreme top portion of tin the tower, and are free to revolve th< with the wind. Outside the tower a evi flight of stairs is fixed, leading from I the ground floor through one of the first thi tier panels, and landing upon a plat- th< fprm, supported by the panel bracing an at one end and by a steel-built tube fig fmif font in rtinmptpr fit- flip ntllpr OniL to This tube is built in the centre of the fiei tower, from tbe ground level to the " underside of the lower water tank, a fig height of 142 feet. From the platform, rof and fixed round the centre tube, rises a aii spiral staircase, constructed of 187 kU treads, and communicating with a fig second platform, 127 feet above. The thi two water tanks on the top platform att are each twenty-four feet diameter and ter sixteen feet deep. They are placed one jnt above the other. The capacity of each tank is 27,400 gallons, equaling 122 ?< tous of water. jU{ Wfl New Portable Gas Holler. An English firm has brought out au ^ improvement in portable gas boilers, . one of which is illustrated herewith. jnt The construction of the boiler is sira- . pie; it is self-contained, and, occupying ' Mi.AA It Ann lm ron/lilr firoH in ' Ulliu &c ?.au U\. 1LUU..J ... any part of the house and removed In a few moments when not required. rc? The holler is strongly made with an outer casing .of corrugated galvanized i,e - Gc rOETABLH OAS HEATER BOIU5B. ^ steel sheets, according to size, and nu nei internal copper boiler tinned inside, tw The heat for boiling the water is ob- of tained by means of a powerful atmos- up pheric gas burner. A copper conden* wa ser is provided, and the casing is also oui well ventilated, so that the necessity " for a chimney to convey away the me steam and gas fumes is dispensed with, -up Gentility. alc It takes three generations to make a a gentleman, especially if one works at wa it only when one is out in company. rae Three generations is a long time, and accordingly the process is ofter arrested with the completion of a irent. fai at least "in these United States. "vv:i Time is money, but it takes more <1,s money to make a gentleman hi some sm sections of the country than in others. wn ?Puck. 100 of A Queer Turkey. pjj The country press of Missouri is dis- ch cussing a turkey chick that was taken ' into the sanctum of the editor of the hit Pleasant Hill paper. Miss Arnie Lee be, Hayes brought it. It had two heads, dk three bills, six legs, six wings and four Yo feet. Ti( "Some Hen." Wf A farmer on Long Island has a hen C01 with a record of 2(55 eggs. Of course he calls her "Macduff" to encourage an her to "lay on." This remarkable fowl kn is valued at $300. str coi A Maine man is trying to teach his dog to talk English. tin gu Those that laugh loudest don't al- f0] ways laugh be3t. thj .'A . .'V : / r \ WILL VEI6HT 01 \ A Turn duchi Y\ Mill nuuuj I Characteristic** of i A/ tlie Interesting I " nBBW Kind o! KF* in WINE of the mining engineers employed, by the Chinese II Engineering and Mining .V/ Company in North China Hill three years ago, when the Boxer outbreak occurred, j now in New York on his way home : a visit after several years of abice. He was in Tientsin during all ? lighting around the city before the ief column started for Pekin, and nffnmnnnipfl thnf- rnlnmn stavinsr the Chinese capital for the greater rt of the winter that followed the heaval. SVith two or three friends who had 011 with him during that exciting miner the engineer, was discuss?, the other evening, the possibility war between Japan and Russia and probable outcome. All agreed that ch a conflict is well-nigh xinavoidle, but there Avas shurp difference of inion as to the result. There was no vision in the admiratioR for the panese. The only doubt as to their ccess sprung from consideration of ? hulk of their antagonist s'or was there any radical difference the estimate of the Russians. Most tlie factors in the problem are well Dugh known to render them practilly fixed quantities. rhe unknown factor is one that only .? actual test can ascertain with anyng like exactness. Roughly it may called the momentum of the two ces, Japanese ana ttussian. xne raentum of the Russians will be ry largely that of weight and bulk ving slowly; that of the Japanese 11 be of lighter weight and smaller lk. but moving at a much higher ?ed. Which will overcome? They used to say," said the raining [jineer, "that it was when Greek met cek that the real tug of war came, er what I saw with the allies in ina I came to the conclusion that ?re will be some pretty tall tugging len the Russians meet ttte Japs that n li? -or/M-hli ffrtmcr r> Inne W.1T tn SPfV .r will come nearer to being an exhibin of what happens when the irresiste force meets the immovable object in anything I have heard, about. The Russian soldiers are big and ong, and can certainly endure to the ish, and from what I saw of them jy are quite willing to stand whatjr comes along in the day's work, used to watch them slouching ough the streets at Tientsin, before ; situation actually became critical, d wonder what they would do in a ht, but I saw enough of them later have all wonder on that score satis1. They showed me plenty of grit and ht in the way they held the old railid station before the rest of the ies got up their troops from Tang, and I don't know vhat kind of btlng could be more severe than Tf woo e rw-mo+anf afro in with acks of the most desperate charac coming at uneven and unexpected ervals, atcacks that came right up the line. 'The Russian soldier is a fatalist, st as the' Jap is, but in a different iy, as an Irishman would say; perps it would be better to say from ferent motives. I don't think a Rusn cares a hang whether he goes 0 a battle or not, and if he goes in doesn't care a hang whether he mes out or not. But it is a personal ilfference only with him. He has no tl interest in life, and, judging from lat I could and did see of him there, has no interest of any sort in his ivernment or its success. He is, mt he is, and he accepts the situa-| n without a question. 'It is bothersome serving In the my, but he?I mean the soldier, not 1 higher officer?goes along the line least resistance and takes what he ts with a grin. Patriotism as we (lerstand it and feel it has no place his sentiments. The Russian soldier hts well because he a fighting beast, is in the blood. 'I had a personal experience with era one day before we got to Tienn that was a good indication, It uck me, of the real character of the isskie. It was one morning when ?y were going out after that tree ttery, as we used to call it?the one th the seven Krnpp guns, which was sted off to the east of the railroad tck. 'That battery had given the settlerats all sorts of merry times. It sd to go after us anywhere from dnlght to midnight, shoot up the lole place and then lie off for other snooze. Well, the Russians icluded they needed It in their busi3s, and started out to get it with 0 uauuiious or lnisiniry auu a. uuupie squadrons of Cossacks. They went along the railroad track to the mud ill and then climbed that. I went t to see the fun. 1 rode over to the railroad embanknit and sot under cover of that to go to the Russian line. I was jogging ?nf; at a good smart trot when all of sudden bullets began to come my iy. There were a-plenty of them for >. and they were coming just as if ;y meant business. Good men are getting scarce in my ally and I got oft the horse. There isn't any unnecessary delay about mounting, either. In about the alleat possible fraction of time I is hugging the embankment on the side, with the pony tied to the end a telegraph wire which was flapig around there where some of the inese had cut in. There was a field of young corn held where I was lying. It was, may, two feet high, and undoubtedly it 1 smell good to that hungry pony. u Know reeu was rnigniy scarce in jntsin in those days, for beasts as 11 as for men. and I suppose that rn was about the biggest temptation it could have been set before the imnl. Anyway, the first tiling I ew the pony had pulled the hitching ap loose and was out among the rn. 1 'Well,' I said to myself, 'there Is ? last of that pony,' and I was dlssted. I had paid about ten prices r him and was glad to get him at nt, for horses were mighty scarce V r ^\*r! 8 MOMENTUM fflK TBE FlfiBT? % IA MEETS THE JAR the Russian Soldier Bearlnx Upon J Problem Working Out In China? JF litlng Animal the Ruaakle la. ^ just men una ue was u. guuu out:. 1 had no notion where I could get another, and. without a horse there was uo use lu my thinking about going with the relief column to Pekin. But I wouldn't have gone into that corn field after that horse for all the ponies that ever were bred in China. No sirce, Bob. "However, there was a Chance to get him back and I took it. There was a company of Russkies lying behind the embankment a few yards beyond me | and I crawled along up to them. 'I had a couple of Mexican silver dollars [ in my pocket, and as I came up to the tirst of the Itusskies I pulled out my dobes and showed them to him. Then I pointed to the pony hogging the green corn as fast as he could. The bullets were striking all around him and knocking up little puffs of dust just as the first big rain drops in a storm make the water in a pond spurt up when rfiey strike. I expected every moment to see him get one and go down. But when I showed that money the grin that spread over the flat face of that Russian soldier would have kept you cheerful for a long time. He understood what I wanted, and he knew what he wanted, which was those dollars. I don't suppose he had ever had that much money at one time in all his life. He spoke to one of his mates and the two got up and started out in that field where the bullets were clipping the corn' tops just as I have seen hailstones do out West. They went right out to the pony, only 3topping long enough to gather a couplc of handfuls of corn with which to coax him in. "He was a little shy of them and' they had some trouble in getting him under cover of the embankment. But fliaw fllrl n f tor n littlo nrul t.hon managed to run in. and catch him. When they brought him up to me I gave them the two dobes aud from the way they took it you would have thought I had made each of them independently wealthy for life. But I went back to the settlements and had a bad quarter of an hour with myself for bringing two- men for fifty cents apiece to risk their lives in that fashion. Afterward, I saw that it didn't make any difference to them. They don't think much of a soldier in the Russian army when 'he's alive; and after he's dead he is only a bother. The fate of a man at Pekin showed me that. The Russians had a sharp fight at the Tung-pien gate in the Chinese wall and got through it just about the time our Fourteenth Infantry got over the wall below them. We went through the Tung-pien gate later. As I camp ud there I saw the body of a big Russian infantryman lying in the roadway just outside the gate. "Some of the Russian troops were then going through the gate and as they came along this man was in their way. But they did not trouble to remove the body. They simply stepped over it and let it lie where it had fallen. The,,man had been shot early in the mor 'ing, for the sun was already be? gir x to show its effect on his face. They ? d taken his rifle and equipment, but the body lay there until after all the troops had marched through the gate. You see they thought more of his equipment than they did of the man himself. That shows how much a Russian soldier counts. "However lawless, or brutal, .or cruel, or licentious he may be. never forget that the Russian soldier will fight every time and just as long as he is asked to. What will happen when the Japanese get after them no man now +a!1 Piioalon !o a In TV fll clumsy and the Jap is light and wonderfully mobile. I? the open the .Taps ought to out-manoeuvre the Russians with conspicuous ease. From intrenched positions it looks to me as if neither would ever drive the other. "The Russian will stay where he is put just because he has been put there. It was an order. When he is ordered to go away he will go,, not till then. If the order is given at the wrong time it will be all the same to him. "When those two get at each other I hope fro go along."?New York Suu. Author's Clipping Bureau. It is said that not long ago a reporter took a journey of considerable length for the purpose of interviewing a rising literary light as to his next novel. On reaching the house he discovered the author on a side porch engaged in earnest conversation with a little boy who had a large towel pinned around his neck. The writer received his visitor cordially, but seemed rather absent-minded. "Are you wjlling to tell me a little about your ' next important work?" asked the reporter. The literary man clicked a pair of shears and patted the boy on the shoulder. "We were just talking about it as you came up." he said. "Bob thinks I quglit to do it with a bowl, but I think I can do it by my eye. What would you advise? You see, his mother always cut it before, and she's away just now."?Youth's Companion. A Limit to Mlnuteneg*. In the course of a recent article published in the Recueil de l'lnstitut Botanique de Bruxelles. Professor Errera comes to the conclusion that it is not possible for organisms to exist of a size very appreciably smaller than those which can be observed vith the highest powers of the microscope now in use. An estimation is made o fthe number of molecules of certain bodies, such as albuminoids, which are present in a bacterium of given size; the num* ber is of such an order of magnitude that only a few molecules could be | present in an organism having a diaui eter u.ui-i, anu mus a uiunuiuu nui>? i to the possible size is obtained. i Don't Reverse. It ig stated as a scientific fact' I some kinds of music Tyill kill mosquitoes, but unfortunately there is no rea| sou to believe that mosquitoes will kill I some kinds of music. ? Kansas City i Journal. T : < ; The city of Toronto, Opt., counts on . gening iZtJ.wu uwac^wnsi. Niagara Falls, although its distance from the great cataract is 90 mileH. The electric current is to be carried the <entire distance from the generating plant, which will be constructed on the Canadian side, by cables, supported on a double-pole line.' A singular property of gelatine, whea spread upon glass, has lately been experiraented with by the French chemist, Cailletet. When a thick layer of strong glue, that lias been allowed todry upon a glass surface, is detached, it carries off scales and leaves designsresembling those of frost on a win dow-pane. Polished marble an<f m quarts? are similarly attacked. Witlr glue containing six per cent, of aiunor Monsieur Cailletet produced five designs, resembling moss in texture. Hyposulphite of soda and uitrate an<* chlorate of potash, added the glue, # ^ produce analogous effects. The glue. 'J while drying exerts a powerful - :\1 mechanical strain. Count Zeppelin, whose experiments. with a gigantic air-ship over the Lakeof Constance attracted world-wide attention a few years ago, has devised a novel form of propellers intended to drive light-draft boats and launches. Tnstpad of oDeratine in the water. Zeppelin's propellers, like those used! i to drive balloons, rotate in the atmosphere. They are specially intended. r?tt for use in very shallow waters, and in tropical rivers which contain so many aquatic plants that the .propellar of an ordinary boat becomes clogged with them. Boats having vexy slight draft can be skimmed along with such propellers at the rate of several miles an hour. > By taking advantage of the diffraction disks formed by the waves of light about bright points, Messrs. Siedentopf and Zsigmondy have produced, with a microscope, a magnifying power of G0,000 diameters, and it is estimated that the same method may achieve a power of 150,000 diameters. ? The objects experimented with were . particles of gold, which almost approach the minuteness of molecules, disseminated through ruby glass, .JIS which were rendered virtually visible ! by means or ineir umracuuu uiws? .ksm that is to say, the disks being seen, ^ the particles could be counted and. i y\? their true size determined, although they were not themselves visible Independent of the disks. The project of climbing the loftiest mountain on the earth. Mount Everest, In the Himalayas, whose tremendous Jfi head rises, according to trigonometrical measurements, 29,002 feet above sea-level, has now reached a stage immediately antecedent to the actual attempt. A* party, led by Mr. Eckenstein, anrexperienced climber, has set out for iiie foot of the great peak.' 1 Vj^ji Several celebrated mountain-climbers have expressed -the opinion that the feat is feasible, but only by the method *>f gradual ascent, whereby the adventurers may become inured to the effects of a rare atmosphere. Months and even years may be spent in ascending to higher and higher levels, a long pause being made after every .considerable advance. The highest ascent now on record is uiat or ai-uu- ^ cagua, in the Andes, the elevation of which is 23,080 feet, 5922 feet, or more than a mile, less than the height of Everest. A Story of Disraeli. Disraeli, who had never been to a public school or a university, had not had reverence of this sort flogged into him In his youth, as the following reminiscence of him, recorded by Lord Dufferin, suggests: . tfprfl "The elder Mr. Disraeli, being as yet more celebrated than his son, my mother had expressed a desire to see him. But the introduction could no* be mauaged, inasmuch as at that particular moment Mr. Disraeli had quarreled with his father. One fine morning, however, he arrived with his father in his Tight hand, so to speak, in Mrs. Norton's drawing-room, af Storey's (iate. se,.mg mm u ?u uu a cliair and looking at hlin as if he were some object of vertu of which he wanted to dispose. Mr. Disreali turned around to my mother and said in hi? somewhat sententious manner, 'Mrsi Blackwood, I have brought you my father, I have become reconciled to him, my father, on two conditions? the first was that he should come and ^3 I see you; the second, that he should pay my debts.'" Goldsmith on His Mascl*. In connection with the sale of a portrait of John Harris, publisher and bookseller of "The Bible and Crown." the Westminster Gazette says: Harris aP rtffpdr Ttrhioli J was an eyewnucss ui mc took place in 1773 between Oliver Goldsmith and Evans the publisher o" the London Packet, in respect of a libel. The incident is somewhat quaintly described in the London Chronicle. March 27-30, 1773, thus: "Dr. Goldsmith, supposing himself * Ill-treated by a letter in the London Packet, went to the person's shop who published it, and struck him on the back with his cnue. A scuffle ensued. and the publisher made an uncommon use of his nails, and was at length knocked down. He then arose, seized a stool, and attacked his antagonist, tiilv some people coming in, they were parted. Thus ended the contest between the son of literature and the I publisher, the latter of whom boars a black eye and the author a scratched face." When one is noncinying. The question of companionship is very important when a holiday is to be arranged. Dr. Lunn confesses to being one of those who think the charm of pleasant companionship essential to ar perfect holiday- and in his judgment four is the ideal number for a party. If there are only two in the party eacli member of it is unduly dependent 01* the other, and there w a chance that the end of the iournev mav find them mutually tired of each other. If there are three in the party the odd one mayfeel neglected. But in the case of four there Is a possibility of a constant chango of companionship. i i