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Show A Scholar In Bed. "An amusing glimpse of the famous statesman is given by Mr. John Murray Mur-ray of the famous publishing houso.j which has issued many of Mr. Glad-j stone's writings and speeches. "The last time I was at Mr. Gladstone's; house," says Mr. Murray, "I had break-, fast early and alone, as I was going, to Scotland. When I had finished I; was told that Mr. Gladstone did not know that I was leaving so early, and that he wanted to have another talk' with me. I went to his bedroom a very largo room with a double bed in it. Mrs. Gladstone was in her dressing dress-ing room. Gladstone was dressed in a nightgown with a brown shawl round him. He was lying fiat on his face, his head at the foot of the bed and his feet on the pillows. In one hand he held a cup of coffee, and there was a book in the other. I shall never forgot for-got that interview, and the comicality of the great lion head popping up as I went towardB him." Destroying Bad Eggs. Millions of bad eggs are seized every year in London, and the way they aro destroyed is to tip them out of their cases and run a steam roller over them- |