Show old world news LONDON march the mansion witnessed alst saturday evening a spectacle unprecedented ce in alia history of the english press and therefore one which cannot fail to bo of considerable anten st to the public whom eliat press so faithfully for on that date the lord mayor received the members of the of journalists with their lady friends to alio number of nearly two thousand and tons was recognized for the farst alio working pressman in his corporate capacity by the chief civic authority in the city of london it may be doubted whether in these days anyone could bo found to deny that such a recognition w as a ell deserved english pera have long outlived tho which at one time assailed them and yet many now living can remember the prognostications of evil which vero freely uttered even by roen in prominent positions when the cheap prees first came into existence as ft tangible entity in civil life how these prognostications have been falsified it would bo wasted labor at this time of tho day to point out suffice it to say tint there a recognition upon all hands of the value and the importance of these never sleeping watch dogs of the public weal and the action of the lord mayor of london simply what all men will now agree is alie fair opinion to be taken of new papers generally and of those ft ho ork upon them last saturday also witnessed the recommencement in london of a system which is of just as much interest to visitors from the country as it is to dwellers in town ever since the dynamite explosion of january 1865 westminster hall lias been closed to the public eien such trusted and loyal subjects as the volunteers ft ho had been accustomed to drill therein have been excluded from its limits and only members of parliament going to and from their duties were allowed to enter it has now however been admitted by the authorities ties that the necessity for such an extreme course no longer exists and visitors on saturday afternoon to the two chambers ot the legislature will be permitted to pass in and out of westminster hall this regulation will at least for the present apply only 0 o tho saturday visitors and on every other day of alie week the great hall of kufus will remain closed to all except members this by the way is not sy much duo to the necessity for continuing special precautions against possible dynamiters dyna miters as to the desirability of preventing alio recurrence of political demonstrations within the hall it was the custom a few years ago for partisans to assemble there apon the occasion of great debates and cheer their respective champions as they went in and out and this ultimately rose to the proportions of a nuisance which is not likely to bo again buffered to grow up the floods which have occurred the past low days in the i west of england havo been of a nature to arouse widespread attention and equally widespread thero is something in tho very cir cum ot an unexpected rush 0 f water coming down into tho streets of peacefully sleeping towns threatening ilia ot alo houses and even tho drowning of aliu inhabitants which appe sils to tho feelings of all when one reads of the whole of axe balley being a torrent of the cayet valley being a huge lake of taunton bristol and other towns being largely under water and of trains on tho main line of the great western system being suddenly stopped on their night by tho rapidly rising floods and of the passengers having to sleep in the carriages it is difficult to belie vo that so many striking occurrences could havo been the result of one single fall of rain however heavy aa a matter of fact it was 1 aliis abnormal fall acting upon the snows of winter which remained upon the hillsides hill sides which caused the lef and the whole series of incidents only furnishes another proof of the inability of man to cope with menso strength of nature what a groat thing it Is to bo a mom ber 0 royalty and have blue blood in ones veins I 1 alie queen has just been to biarritz Biar ritz and the expenses which are rn usually heavy leavo all to be paid by the public tho saloon carriages made two trial trip from cherbourg Cher bourg to biarritz Biar ritz then the royal yachts which are used in croas ine the channel leave just been refit ted with electric light appliances the previous system being unsatisfactory for some predty reason alie sum disposed of in direction atas scandalously dalou sly large tho royal yachts number three and all are used for a trip fin addition the admiralty yacht enchantress was used on this last occasion it may appear strange that tour yachts should bo necessary to transport one royal personage across the silver nt reak but an accident might happen you know more than this a new railway station for her Maje epenial uso was constructed ted at portsmouth on the north jetty at a oust ot nearly pounds foreign office messengers left london tor biarritz Biar ritz on alternate lays with dispatches etc cabinet ministers had to go to to attend on the queen all tho espouse attached to these trips is paid out of the public treasury royalty comes liina but the british must have it in some young ladies in berlin founded a club the bembera ot which pledged themselves not to marry auder pain of a fine of 1000 marks at first the club was a great success it started 23 members and soon increased its number to 31 suddenly however an epidemic of marrying broke out in abo club and this year at the general meeting there was only one solitary member left who found herself called upon to die pose of marks alie amount remaining of the finca been paid this by the official advice of tho perjured ex members the general meeting resolved to divide into equal portions one to lie given to tho berlin hospitals alie other to be settled on the last member it seems a pity eliat tho following advertisement which has just appeared in a brank vrank fart paper cannot be brought before this members notice it reads as follows A poor imp wishes to make the acquaintance of a angel with a view to matrimony in the hope of making tor himself a little heaven on earth THE BEST reason yet advanced eliy the dakotas preferred alie cumbersome distinctions north and south instead of such euphonious names AS pembina and lincoln is that the hardy frontier farmers are proud of tho reputation 0 their chief cereal knon the world over as dakota wheat tho reputation of tho staff of life is more to them than poetry or convenience besides they will now have two dakotas heat both superfine servie tea if one 13 wise in small matters one serves tea nowadays by aeling up in advance enough for cups for all ones company ia tiny bags of mull or muslin of the color of the table decorations writes ellza putnam II eaton gilded baskets tied with jing are heaped with tho pretty toys and form the chief ornaments of the dining room under the bright hued bags one must have white ones lying and when tea is wanted one deftly extracts these latter and throws them into the boiling water taking them out when tho flavor has been extracted and placing hem in a silver slop basin women have been known to throw in the colored bags to the horror of the chemically learned in A dainty cap of cambric she upon her hair he sleeves were tucked up neatly her dimpled elbows bare bhe kneaded long and thoroughly the plump white loave bread and when I 1 praised her warmly aho turned and smiling said you men dont know what to knead for once yon speak not true ju well bred tones of love I 1 cried for darling I 1 need you IONE L JONES in judge ia drag stem there are present bome 2000 women employed in drug stores throughout the country when the school of pharmacy was first organized at louisville there acio but two women engaged in the business aud both of were in tho laboratory of one of the professors during the last term more applications tor graduates to fill responsible positions in drug stores or laboratories of manufacturing chemists have been received at the louisville school than the total number which the school lias graduated since its commencement saro M A tio an official who has been fired naturally burns for revenge tid well to put an editor in office anywhere for habit will compel the man to do the write thing there critic jones blowing a cloud of smoke into the air I 1 am very fond of a good cigar mrs jones then for gracious sake get ono time rising young poet did you ear read any of my poetry new Acquaintance No I 1 then let mo read you bome of it oh yes caroe to think ivo read it all record and if asked what elate ho hails from our sole reply shall be he hails from thirty seven states and he hails chicago tribune |