Show NEAR AND FAR London In ler anthems are sung In tn the course COUr e of a year It is la estimated that the th laundries of f London use UN tons of soap in a week A mens meris league l JU has been formed at Darmstadt Darm with the object of abolishing the custom of raising the hat The menu of the special canine ex cx express press which the Great Central Railway company ran from London in connection with the Manchester dog show included dog og biscuits bones bread and milk chopped meat and water Joseph Joeeph Robinson of Redcar Re car North Yorkshire has hu Just completed fifty tifty years as parish Redcar church and also years as town crier crl r rHe He lie has attended some services and officiated at 1100 baptisms mar marriages m marriages r and burials Some undertakers whose customers are poor people are using coffins made of paper pap r The coffins are made in all styles st les of pressed paper aper pulp just the same as 8 the common paper buckets When they are varnished and stained d they resemble polished wood and in point of durability it is claimed they are much better than wooden ones A watch vatch two and inches Incites in diameter which shows what constellations cons tal lations lation are visible at any moment the I relative positions of or the sun and moon the season the times of sunset sunrise and high tide and the time Of day in I addition to striking the hours and quarters has been made by J Player Son of Coventry It took four years to make and a is valued at 1000 There is generally considered to be a great gulf fixed flied between the church anti and the football pavilion but a Stirling shire club may be said to have success successfully successfully fully bridged it A religious bod body in the Longcroft district recently built a new newchurch newchurch newchurch church and their old premises being for sale they have been purchased by Long Longcroft L ng croft Thistle F C and fitted up as a football pavilion |