Show happenings ABROAD FEMALE bootblacks are increase increasing ing i in number in paris they dress neatly and are coaxingly coa singly polite when shine th they y utter atter the french equivalent for shine sir ir tim THE american rendezvous is the name oi of a newly fitted meeting place and reading room in cockspur street formally opened recently by the extensive american colony in london SATURDAY was selected for the recent elections for the london county council b because cause the half holiday would enable te the he workingmen to vote now the jews protest that an election on their sabbath practically dis franchises them A AN i interesting latin inscription iou has been discovered at X aurba in tunis it gives an account of the defense of the town in 43 45 B C by pompeys Pom party julius CM caesar 1 ar and contains a military term hitherto unknown poste icus meaning a gate for a sortie longest time tune during which a note has remained outside the bank of en england is one oae hundred and eleven years yeam it was for one hundred and twenty five dollars and it is computed that the cou compound pound interest during that long period amounted to no less than thirty thousand dollars |