Show I 1 old 11 T orld nem f lemov nov 10 1888 it is scarcely possible for any vaut person to pus through the main a t re a ts 0 I 1 london without observing the constant process of improvement that Is going on old brick houses are being demolished in order to I 1 replaced by fine erections of brown stone and advantage Is boing taken in many cases to widen the thorough fares as these dwellings fall but the value of land in the metropolis and especially in the city proper is great that it Is no small matter to add a v a n much as a couple to the width of a street when frienda from the count ry visit london they often express surprise at what thay may fair J on alder the extreme ibe ways and they are tempted that their town friends must be singularly blind to the manifold advantages a I 1 wide thorough fares to allow matter a to remain in their present crabbed cribbed crib bed cabinet cabined cab ined and confined state buat Is very largely I 1 question of money and of vast sums of money too for there is for instance a widening of a street going on in tile heart of the city of london aich when it Is thoroughly completed III cost not far short of a quarter ofa will be read ily is no light sum to be rates espe dilly when it is remembered mat this represents a n improvement in one street alone it is that those who dwell I 1 a london are content to take their widen ings gradually and to rejoice when they ca a be even as slowly as at present some thirty or forty years ago a great deab more was beam of the pos sibila establishing model villages than Is the case today to day for it was then quite a fashion imong many uell their kind to sketch out fancy communities which by tile mortar and the completeness of their sanitary arrangements would put sin and shame and a larke portion of the sum of human misery to flight but despite the discredit that attached to most of these plans because of their utopian character one great effort in the direction made by the late sir titus salt at the fax famed model vi ilage of Salt alre near bradford was a deserved success attempt is now to be undertaken at Aln tree liverpool tn connection with a large industrial enterprise dwellings site to be erected for about fifteen hundred workpeople work peole and great attento on will be paid to their picturesque grouping as well as to their sanitation wh I 1 I 1 a of garden and air space will be provided for each the success of the experiment will be watched with in beresf and if it only prove as great as that achieved at salta the pramot ri will have reason to rejoice I 1 one of the judges of the ailigh court of justice has had to strongly protest w athin the past few against what lie termed the growing habit even amon g persons in a good position of writing to the judge before who their cases would be beard emphasize ins his protest by stating that he had only that morning received a letter about a case and asking the press to make it known that in the future he would deal severely with such offend are singularly enough another judge sitting at the moment in the central Crit ninal court had a tar complaint to make lie stating that ballad a letter containing a number avery in which he was just about to pass sentence and adding thatis the were sent with the object of luene ing him the attempt had entirely because he had not read the extracts it Is strange that judges should have kewarn the pub so obvious an attempt to t with the fountain of justice for exactly as a juryman has to beear that be will well and truly try and a true deliverance make be bur lady he queen and the prisoner at the bar upon the evidence that shall be set before lim so it judge Is bound to deal w ili a case only as it shall come lo 10 fore himin him in open bourl it was a very state device that ro sorted to by the amusing neapolitan reporter who disguised himself as a waiter that he might see something 11 of the vie ine of king If umbert and his imperial guest when at the ba ginning of the franco german war bataillon Batail log french alviston Alv islon held broken for a couple of days the goa eral lived in his tent on the side of the hill above the town and had his meals sent up to film from the hotel an english journalist who had re behind ihen the germans I 1 temporarily the helped to perve Bat ailles foa dis knifed as ti ne of ilia waiters of the roste and ikona an to hl I 1 a per f what he maw and heard when the of the city of london R cat to windsor to cong ratu lations on the recovery reco vury of tho of a journalist disguised in an imitation windsor uniform joined ilia deputation and although lie was stopped at the door of ilia throne room succeeded in making one of tile luncheon p arty in diw waterloo chamber news col nes train paris that al loon races the winner being the one bich lands 10 e a re a t to a n as 81 gi le d havo been held there oil I 1 sundays the proceed being devoted to charitable the first time there ere six and tho second time eight competitors the chief prize has been t lea gained by bf louis godard son of the celebrated derosant dero nant and himself ina nager of a U loon manufactory 11 Is balloon he had two fellow cerp gerp alighted a last Sunday at la ferriole Fer 10 kilometres kilo metres from the bel fra of which on account of its prominence at a distanlo di had been selected as ithe winning post 1113 landed from 15 to 20 kilometres kilo metres from chevreuse Chev reuse 31 godard success to keeping at a low altitude whereas on the previous sunday he won by adopt lag the opposite course this shows that there wa s no chance and AI I 1 de fon one of the judges regards the result as a striking confirmation of the view for years enunciated by him namely that by skilful bandling Land ling of the ballast and valve balloons may in tolerably still be approximately steered thead races aeo I 1 akely to effect steady progress in this diorec tion cavic VA vic it |