| Show GOSSIP IN LONDON TOWN Lord Salisbury started for the Riviera yesterday morning Time South African Critic a periodical published In London says Cecil Rhodes Is seriously ill Irelands population Is less than It was ten years ago and probably lower than at any other time In the nineteenth century Tho census of time United Kingdom taken ta-ken last Sunday night will not ho tabulated tabu-lated for Bomo time but the Indications are that the populatloif oC England Ireland Ire-land Scotland and WAlctf Is moro than CO000000 At tho first day of the Alexander Park England spring meeting tho Priory selling sell-ing plate ol 100 sovereigns for threeyear olds one mile with ten entries was won by the brown gelding S Bonmot Danny Maher the American jockey rode time winner The War office In London ban cabled Its agents In time United States to buy no more mules and horses for the South African war but to hurry all stock now under contract to Now Orleans whore It will bo put aboard ships aa speedily ns possible The Black Bull Inn London which has stood for 200 years the last of time ancient hostelries In Holbron Is to bo pulled down It was hero that Dickens laid the scene of the nursing experiences of Mrd Gamp and Betsy PrTgiand where Iho Immortal Salroy perpetrated so many of her historic expressions |