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Show - i Gladstone proposes five fundamen tal c hanges in the British constitution. They are: Abolition of the house of lords; home rule; one man, one vote; shorter parliaments, and paj'inent of men elected to parliament. The campaign in Louisiana has but one issue lottery or no lottery. Old republicans and old democrats are badly bad-ly mixed up together on both sides. The lottery company wants a renewal of charter for twenty -five years and will pay the state 81,250,000 a year for the privilege. j The fair duchess of Portland has 950 women pledged to her Society for the Protection of Birds. None of them will wear or encourage the wearing of any fcoug bird's plumage. If the feather-boa gets a much stronger foothold in this country, a society will be necessary fou, the protection of Dominicker roosters from boa makers with a modicum of corn in one hand and a bucket of glue in tho other. No doubt some leader of fashion got this idea from a man who'd tecu tarrml and feathered. i |