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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 725, 26 January 1910, Page 8

: Sinca the reign, of'.George Hl.'it has been a tradition in the Royal Family that one or more of its princes should be brought up'in'the,navy. Prince Edward of -Wales was'.the''last Eoyal prince to enter the senior service.

-Lord Eoberts has; been four, times Com-mander-in-Chief, has twice had his horse shot' under him, and in 1858 gained the V.C. :

The Eev. J/Powell, chaplain of the Suffolk: County Jail, who is about,to retire, asserts that a prison is not. so depressing a. place as many imagine,-and adds , that he' would .lather: serve six; months in prison than ; be an inmate of a workhouse for i a'similar , period. - A prisoner- has his own; rooms, and is not herded with many others!) Mr. Powell relates that a" man awaiting trial said to him: "Yon. might ask the Judge to give me three years. When I'm outside I haven't a bed to sleep on, but. while I am here I have my; own private sitting-room,. my butler to bring in. my meals. my doctor to see after me, and even my private.ohaplain",

Twenty-five motor-car post-offices- are to be placed on the: streets of Berlin' in order to facilitate the distribution of lettors' and parcels. ; -

At the sale;of the contents of Old Park, Enfield, 1355. per ounceiwas "realised for a Queen Anne plain > silver . two-handled cup, and 80s.' per ounce for a' chased and fluted porringer of the same period.

." Army officers in Germany got reductions on : . railway and "theatre tickets,. :and. take precedenoe of all civilians at; any social l function. .- . . , ,

- Prince von'Bnolow, tho late Imperial Chancellor of Germany, was offered, some years ago, .£I2OO a year: to join'tho staff of:"The Times."

Bred at Martham, Norfolk, a magpiepigeon has been sold; for £W, a record price for the-breed, and, in. gold, heavier than the bird itself.