Show the matter of feminine styles is be colding an I 1 n active public and political issue in italy and a number of 0 the high church dignitaries have issued denunciations n u nc lations of the present lascivious fashions the bishop of padua has just sent a pastoral letter to all the clergy under him exhorting them to us use e their influence against the custom which allows women and girls to parade in public in scanty and almost skintight costumes which expose the person to in an extent that is indecent and immoral the socialists especially resent the interference inter terence ol of the clergy in th the matter of diess which they say the church has nothing to do with A number of clashes between the rival forces have occurred and at naples the police had to separate the combatants after blood had been shed recently at christias christies Chri sties auction rooms ia a london the famous essex ring wa was s sold for this ring figures in history and fiction according to the tae tradition it was given by queen elizabeth to the earl of essex and he was to send it to her if he ever found himself in trouble time came when the wl earl was condemned to death and he did send the ring to the queen but the countess of nottingham who was the ears earls enemy intercepted it elizabeth ab eth offended at receiving no plea for or mercy from the earl allowed him to be put to death judge bordwell of los angeles holds that a newspaper which stole a wireless message and published it could not be p punished as the law which makes erdl nary 21 telegrams private does not apply ip other words when a message ja is en suited to td the air it becomes public property cho cholera lera is now raging in turkey k the food riots still continue in france the pen is raigh blighter ter than the sword but the press is both the pen and the sword I 1 german trade organizations are petitioning the government to reduce the tariff duties on bread stuff gerros gaitros the french aviator reaches a height of feet and makes the highest mide made this year there will be a harvard of harvard for the first time since harvard university was started years ago a student of the same name as th the e founder has entered there I 1 foundlings and other homeless babies are being sent in carioad lots from new york and other big cities to towns in texas for or adoption there the demand is report reported ei to be in excess of the supply 1 hou sandi of letters are coming coining to the dea itter office because the senders have merely put red cross mcnamara kidnap or similar stamps on them supposing that hey took the place of postage stamps As A result of this the postoffice post office department has now ordered that in future no such stamp shall be placed on the address side of letters and that roust must avoid any resemblance resemble nce to postage stamps the red cross will now adorn adopt a round seal stamp in a little 1 I e inCI inclosure OSUTe of the talais palais ro Royal ai il gardens dens it io paris is a small toy I 1 onte aeye tie day that the batey ha tey tw 1 I I 1 I 1 a 1 1 U I 1 ut tit i of the suni suns rays which just at n noon fall through a burning glass in such a as to fire the fuse ordinarily however the gun refuses to fire until several minutes after noon as a certain amount of heat beat has to accumulate heat has been so unusual that the gun has been reporting practically on time for the first time in many years yean |