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Trout Fishing— Special Cash Discount on rods, rods, linos, (lies, gut goods, until (Mid of season, at Denton's, 5S "Willis Street.—Advt. Sightseers often find the viewing of pictures the most fatiguing part of their day's work. An article in the "Scientific American" ascribes this fatigue partly to tin! fact that many picture galleries' are so lighted Hint strong .sunlight is reflected upv.-nrd by shining floors. This is verv tiying to the eyes A just as is the glare of smishino 011 large surfaces of sooner ice. The Brabazon Society, as described by a writer in "Chambers's .Journal," seeks' to help (lie inmates of the English workhouses by inspiring them to work—for tlie "workhouse" is ordinarily a place whose inmates "spend their time in'apathetic vacancy, too indolent even to quarrel." Much success has attended the efforts' of the society. L'art of its profits go to (lie individual worker, the rest toward providing luxuries for those who are unable to work. 1 Not more than fiO,ooo of the 1.000,(100 books ill the liritisli Museum are in ccm--111011 i.se, the Museum's chief librarian is reported as saying. Only occasionnllv is one of (he other •!,!) Ki.lilji) books asked lor by a delver in forgotten lore. "Acres and acres of books here are uncut," says (he librarian, "and have never 101 l their shelves since they were placed in Iheui." And yet in the future any one of I hose forgotten books limy _ prove to sorao special Btudcnt to bo. of priceless ralua.