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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 100, 24 January 1901, Page 1

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MRS DEWEY'S CAMPAIGN. Washington society has reecitt'v been divided over a i precedence, raised by Mrs Dewey. who announced her intention '»£ insisting upon her riglits at ftU social functions. Americans c.; - e popukrly supposed to pay lew attention to little matters of forni.il etiquette than Europeans, but, .*s a ma tier of f aot, certain forms b:we Co be observed in official life, awl the prescribed order of precedojea is, of course, followed with absolute strietiiess at such functions as ihe President's official reception. Mm Dewey, as ihe wife of the only full Admiral in the American Navy, considers herself entitled to take precedence over the wives of ali oiJher officials, except the President and and she has a special objection to following Mrs Miles, the wife of the Comuiauder-in-Chief of the Anny. Dewey, as au Admiral, outrajiks-Miles, who is ojly a Lieutenant-General, but on all ceremonial occasions the Army, as the senior service, takes precedeuce.over the Navy. The point is, therefoi-'e, a nice one. Shortly after Mrs Dewey married the Admiral she asserted her claims to precedence, and endeavoured to obtain an official rulir.g on then. When the President he'<l a 12ception, at which both M t & D°v/oy and Mrs Miles were ihe or<i' tu-y favour! .13 the U v aiy WtfH adopted. But this by ?-o means satisfied the Atv.ulivd'is w'-.j. She refused an invite iiou to Whin Rouse, equivalent n comma. .J to Windsor, on the g .vid of illhealth, and so ese-veu a second hiL-iilir-iion. Th ; r- season she is appr-.cntly entering, the lists well prep?ret-: afc all points. Her relatives and friends in Washington yooieiy a <* numerous, and thev hnve al. ! '•■•0:11 her sif'e in tba L». the* we ara accufaiomed to j \, qiiauOies'of tha il&~;4y ce.'.qe-iruing the places they occupy m the presence of earthly r'.tiers. Mrs Dewey's comprint is more arousiig, aad certaLily c »e reasonable.—Ljttelton Timer,.

SHERLOCK HOLMES,

Dr. Couan Doyle must have some of the peculiar aptness of Sherlock Holmes, the detective who walks his pages. But, as the " Bookman" tells us, he refers his idea of the character to an old professor of medicine at the Edinburgh University. This man would sit in the patients' waiting-room with-a face like a Red ; In|§ki the people as they came in, even before they had opened their mouths. He would tell them their symptoms; he" wcuid give them details of their lives, " he would say to the students standing about, "I am not quite certain whether this cork-cutter or a slater. I a slight callus or hardening on one side of hia forefinger and a little thickening lon the of his thumb—that is>a. sure*4ign that Le is either the one or "the other." Hia deductions were very dra'matic. "Ah," he would say to another man, "you are a soldier, a non-commissioned officer, and you have served in* Bermuda. How, gentleman, how did I know that? He came into the room without taking off his hat, as ha would go into an orderly-room; he was a soldier. A slightly an. thoritative air, combined with but age, shows that he was a noncommissioned officer* A rash on his forehead tells me he was in Bermuda! and subject to a cer* i tain rash known only there/'