NEWS IN BRIEF.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 152, 21 March 1908, Page 10

NEWS IN BRIEF.

. Tho. Countess: of Scfton,-who is with tlia. Earl's party inrAbyssinia, has killed • her first lion. ; . ;/' :•''.//.. .o: :'A> rf 1 A ireduction of- £4252-in expenditure on : printing' arid stationery was effected during the past year by tho Metropolitan Asylums Board. ''. '

A Californian centenarian : named; Wilson was surrounded by 228 descendants at the celobration. of. his hundredth birthday recently. v, ; - ; V' : v .;- '' ..' One .of thp housebreakingimplomonts in..' tho "possession of a man who ; was .committed .' for-trial at tho:North London Polico Court, was a key made from a. spoon." " ■■'■The 'Rov. J. Morgan Whitcman■ being ID, his wife ascended tho-pulpit at Trafalgar, Street ; Unitarian Church, Burnley, and .con-,,-ducted tho service. - She,preached:; an elo- , , quant-sermon.-' -. ■Whilst cycling near Halesworth, Henry- : • licablo fell, and his clothes were-set on- fire* by his bicycle lamp; Ho was found lying unconscious nest mprningj and died on being' removed home. % ' ' . ■ Nearly £25,000,000 was given to charifcablo, '■' ■ • educational and other causes last year m tho \ ■Uiiited States. . Mr, V/Jblin', D,, Rockpfellor'.. - led with gifts exceeding £B,ooo,ooo,'\yhilo ' Mrs. Sage- gave £2,000,000. : ■ After burglars had visited his premises. aiid'i ! stolengoods .worth £200, -a '- Chicago - : shopkeeper bought a largo watchdog. ■ Tho.- - following- night - tho .burglars, returned; and gtofe :the 'dog, leaving' a small .terrier; in'.'ita ..' place.;'": '•' Excitement -was, caused in- Huntingdon re-- •- cently.' by 'tho'.Fjtzwilliatii Hounds chasing a fox nnto tho middle:of the town.. Tlio fox-•• ' was, lost in a doctor's garden, but. was Rafter-, wards discovered in a cottage outhouso. and- . capturpcl. , '■ ... ;' ' : 'S'' '..-A. soldier named Robert Biggs,': belonging ■ ■...; to thp Ist Argyll and Sutherland Highland-: ers, died in tho.. military.; hospital i at' Fort.. Pitt} Chatham : recently, from injuries roceived .while playing, football ; with thp : rbgt-": , mental team. , - Thp Geriiian' Empress . presented 'tho national '"award-, for long domestic the ''Gold Cross of Remembrance,": to. Miss Willielniina who has beon- for over,: 40 years iii the family of the Rev. : "\\illiam, David, of Exeter.' It has'beon arranged that tho meadow nearKennington Park, which the London County. Council recently securixl, shall : bo used by, LaSibeth scholars in connection'' with .tlio ; new scheme of organised games. This is-the . . last-'meadpw; in. Lanib'et-lu : . Thp Athenaeum Theatre, Lancaster, which' , was biiilt o'n tlio site of a playhouse, in which Mrs. Siddons'had perforiiicd, has"been do-.-': '. strayed- by fir'o". after the conclusion : 'of av .'.' nvatin'ee performanco of : a'pantomime..:. So-' voral of tho;performers had narroiv'escapsGrA; fino- specimen, of. the' golden' eiiglp has; been captured ,:on Lord iWolvcrtpn's .'.lwerno .-" Jliiister estate,"...Tha. bird. measures'. 0ft.0in,... from tip to tip, and its plumage is in excellent' condition, . Tlio last recorded occasion, on which a bird of this species was seen so far south was in 1838. A L U n l' States, special, census- - report - shows that in 10 years the number of womom'. employed in vario.usi pccupatioiis.has iiicreas-;.:-pd from 3,712,1.44 to. 5,007,900, tlio-.total-: engaged in the law being 1010,' agajnst 207,' while thero aro -3405 "Glergynieti,'-'< conWu'fpared with 11-I,'i 10 years ago. .While on 1 , a visit ' to- East Quantoxhead (Somersctshiro), a inan, on going over a field"; ■ ' of roots : o»-Perry Farm lost his'gold , - and chain.' Tho.field was ploughodf qiiil'soiyri':during two seasons. Recently, tho wafcli aiid ;- - chain came to light again,' beiiig picked up"? by the farmer. ' When • the mud was re- " ' moved tho watch began to tick.. -It-has since-- ; "' kept-' sood.-timo. ■. ■- • Tlioi-p,conies from Liverpool tho. story of a voiuig Portuguese living iiv that; city who oil ' thoday., of -tho assassination'of tlio' King ofPortiigal ..found himself strangely depressed. :' Laier'on tlio.feeling becamp intense, and an- " peared to t-akp.morp definite- form'i' : . His de-V V meaiiour,. was noticed : by sofiid friends; who qiicstioned' hiiii/oii. t-ho point',. (Ho;,,replied. | that'lic felt most .uneasy as t-o events in Por- ■: tugal,'''and could,jiot rid his mind of a' feel- - iiig that an attempt i on the life of tlio King was-impending. .