Show old world ledox ma y 20 3 A amat deal of talk haq lately taken place concerning the state of our national and a movement has boon set on foot in the city of london which has for its object the better protection of the capital in case 0 finTus lon one of tile proposals that bas been matte is that london be with a belt of earth mould forin rallying points for the defenders of ilia met top oils and ilia arguments for and against nuch a proposal have been many there bisone isone however which is worth considering though it has not yet tile attention it do perves at this moment it Is true london Is an anfor titled city and therefore it presents tu notable points on every side it may be taken for granted that no tears of Parth works which even the most fi killed engineer could devise and the connary be milling to provide would make her invulnerable the question quest lon for thou ht then is this by the laws of war an tin fortified city cannot be while one at all protected by forts or outworks out works can be and as the provision of any of the latter would therefore be am ale provocation for a bombardment though it would not be an absolute protection for t a mathe ter for careful debate is hether ilia risk is worth taking not nany years ago choso who would havia suggested that there was a probability of ilia attention of ilia trading being once more directed to canals as kroug rivals to railways for commercial an might almost have been counted upon ilia of ilia hand it had come to a practically taken for granted grant td that canals had had their day tin that ilia next thing to be lone in connection with them was to fill them tip and have lone with thern once and for everin ore jut of late a wave of rov veil in canalia and their his come over ilia people and just nom there is an ever attention being given to them after longy tars of struggle having secured a canal to ilia Is thinking of following ilia example uth ono to ilia or tile thames aher are eagerly claims and fit a two days the inland navigation a few day ago in london the arguments of e tend i rig and elaborating ilia canal various directions direct ioni were stated with A dolive of force and precision act likely to he lost upon any interested in the subject paris has just provided herself with tin exact model of the r arstile as that historic fortress for trens stood to its destruction just a year short of a century since an may easily he ining filed this has caused enuch antem L among lassi and it ia certain to attract thousands of the foreign val term who always o in the city on the seine during ilia it in singular how widely this 19 chlon of a Persi blance of ancient buildings has spread stance it was int at a south all tion a few year Rago in tile salape of a model of a street in old blondan Lon dan ll 11 no oly every provincial exhibition r ince that time hn bad it t amilar rep resen tation of its own locality cleester cl iester newcastle edinburgh and in this present century glasgow all have had them und naw as has been noted the has crossed the straits of and made its appear ancelin paris it isa tonce esting arad instructive that no surprise need be felt at this and wo are likely to see many more such reproductions before the fabion dies away although the word spinster re mains in tile langelage lang ilage and is used in f onna I 1 documents upon that m aich proves so important in the lives of most of leq its origin I 1 las almost tiled out from the minds of all except diet conary makers that origin of cOr arse was that tile unmarried birb of a family were accustomed to do all tile yarri spinning that was required but in tile times we fand it easier to buy yarn chaji to alln it and the old custom has i it is therefore the more g to know that the has forward ed to the comans womans industries action of aw glasgow international tion two table napkins manu fatur a J from yarn spun by her brost of us would have been to look upon a spinning wo over seen one an fn a bogost le ld it oi all 67 Mo logical curiosity rather th an an 1010 of ime wit her males ty ld P antly of a very different a pit liason ilia near keovil yeovil last meek they came across a 11 foil of tile prom the amont to tile end of ilia vertebra the length was over twenty two feet and the jaw which was furnished with large conical beeth wag three fact long a four pad dion with bleb the animal propelled itself we distinct and all its other peculiarities were itally do v eloped in the fossil w hon ile clay surrounding it wall loosened the fell to hollih ono of its most powerful pom erful paddles retiring me tiring aluk thirty four inches long intact nio prot on which thia fossil was r attract is about midway tle tween the and tho anglish n about t five from each a the crow wo uld aind abolia two miles fr on tile present W of the river dairre Us which flows into ilia 1111 stol chance tile deduct ion drawn from this find is that file whole of file flat anti part of somerset through which tile river parrott now runs was once an arm of the sea and it a far less rem ate time than that which Is generally known as it 11 isomo very fine wood earrings are now on bondor Lon dor T hey conol the akst stalls mi ii eva of tue clayir I 1 brought I 1 7 I 1 1 f 9 aj NA I 1 fro the Car a n Mon cli Duilio lm 11 T 1 C 0 in the year va en finished in 51 and experts even during that long period a iia I 1 number of men amt hato been c tenuously fit work on thein tim mon astory was secularized at tile begin ding of the T reent it pap sed into abo hands cra large neighboring lando by ullo ni they have recently been mid to an Ung liel dealer her a being 13 for alib fouth 12 for tile north and sn A it ilia west end the two middle ones here hearing ilia portraits of the two principal design mt 1 r y and each has at tile back of aa saint throe however of which have been stolen ar mellons preservation and even tl w floor boarding has been tak en away this is sadly worn III places by the feet of tile monks who legend says commenced the dally ro gigions offices befaro five arld chanted through all the before break fast I 1 mae queen of spain in among tho reformers metaphorically in cleaning out the palace at madrid she Is intro thing for a spanish monarch but she N attempting a still more courage courageous ou things thing s he is simplifying the customs of ilia court in this ros liar have to do the duchess do medina threatened a few days ago it tain candidate was not appointed an archbishop the duchovs avas tile chief of the household and A great favorite but her resignation was seems determined to be sale otiler at coart WARWICK |