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Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 237, 11 April 1896, Page 2

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i (Per Press Association.) j London, Feb. 14. i A game of living whist was played |in a hall at Bromley. The representi atives of: the cards were dressed in fancy costumes, and eacb carried a large card. The kings and knaves j were represented by gentlemen, and ! the other cards by ladies. Four gentlemen played the cards. The Education Department have decided to appoint women as inspectors of elementary schools. Mdlle Rosa JBonheur, now in her 74th year, has just finished a great picture of horses. A gentleman applied to a London magistrate for advice under peculiar circumstances. A clergyman had refused to allow him to place an upright tombstone in a public cemetery. The magistrate told him the only course open was to apply to the Ecclesiastical Commissioner for a faculty, but that the procedure would be an expensive one. It is stated on authority that the money which the Government proposes to spend on strengthening the navy during the coming financial year is a little under £10,000,000. In the Appeal Court the Judges have sustained the decision of the revising barrister for North Dorset, who held that a lady who owned property was not, under the latest Act, entitled to the parochial vote as formerly in respect of properties on which she does not reside, though men similarly placed continue so entitled A law student appealed against the decision of the Benchers on their refusal to call him to the Bar. The Judges upheld the decision of the Benchers. Reutgen's rays are leading to startling developments. By means of a new discovery the time occupied in the process is being greatly reduced. By the aid of the rays a man in Munich was relieved of a needle which entered his flesh a long time ago, and which had baffled medical science. Mr Edison, by means of the rays, will make attempts to photograph the human brain and disease microbes, nearly life size, which is to be on exhibition in London.