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Hastings Standard, Issue 55, 30 June 1896, Page 4

The King of Italy detests cards, arid will not take them in liis hand, is it said, owing to the fact that his father wasted hours o\'er them ; and since the death of Alphonso XIL card-play-ing has bcjii forbidden at tha Court of Spain. Chicago retains its old reputation as the c-itv where divorces can be more quickly obtained than anywhere else in the world. Recently five judges granted a hundred divorces in three hours, an average of 20 divorces to each judge, and nine minutes to each divorce. The London and North-Western Railway Company the other day ran a corridor train from Liverpool to Euston, having dining accommodation not only for first-class passengers, but also for second and third - class. Hitherto, dining facilities have been afforded to first-class passengers only. Russia, whose calendar is twelve days behind ours, proposes to adopt the Gregorian system after the beginning of the new century. The authorities have not yet decided whether to jump over the thirteen days at once, or to accomplished their object gradually, by omitting the twelve leap years of the century. It would then require forty-eight years to bring about the change.