Show THE IMPERIAL INSTITUTE A friend of the NEWS has baa handed in a copy of the london standard of the alth which contains a great array of reading matter As AB is the rule with english periodicals the matter Is ia sug yeative cestive of the pyramids being in solid and almost unbroken columns anu showing at a alance that to obtain even an inkling or of all the contents one must begin at the beginning go and carefully through ich to the close such a thing as indicators Indi in the way of headlines headline sura or a syllabus preceding an article long enough to make a good sized pamphlet are apparently not even th ouight of certainly not used but with all this duly considered the standard to is a great paper in all a fact of which mr Ula detone and his political associates are no doubt made lully fully aware at times the issue before un contains an article of nearly live five long jong broad columns on the opening of the imperial institute the day previous the NEWS contained a telegraphic report of it at the time the queen is frequently infrequently and effusively mentioned so are the other members of the royal household together with their attire and attendant circumstances an account of the proceedings which enters so largely into minutiae as to be tiresome in places is in given the order of march being set get out with especial particularity from as careful a going over as we are capa ble of giving the article wo we do not dot observe that the prime minister is ia mentioned anywhere but other en titles cf f the celebration down to the silver candlestick are freely spoken spoke 0 of the institute to is a great affair and fully justifies the elaborate mention made of it it has cost a mint of money but the standard says before it is complete compete in every detail a further expenditure of a bout about will have to be made so the reader can form some idea as to how enormous it Is ie the opening was an event la english history |