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 Within four months there has been ten nishaps, more or less serious to the British torpedo boat -destroyers Six of the mishaps were due to collisions.
 
 The Duke os Sutherland has closed on one of his estates in Scotland a road over which the ublic has enjoyed the right of way for over 300 years.
 Liverpool's death rate-thirty- mine per 1,OO0-is more than twice that of London. Much of the difference is due to the extraordinary loss of infant life in Liverpool TOT to 245 per 1000.
 J. Plerpont Morgan started life with $1O,oOO,OOO left him by his father. At 2s he defeated Jay Gould and James Fisk. jr., in a struggle for the possess sion of the Allegheny & susquehanna railroad.
 At the meeting last month in Glas- gov of the Institute of Journalists, the opinion was expressed that part of the Institutes defence fund.- should be used in prosecuting people who pro- fessed to teach journalism and "held out illusory hopes to unwary aspirants for position on the press"
 It looks, says the Springfield Repub- lican, as if Maine were standing about as steady in her politics as Vermont. The people are not excited over politics. and evidences of a Landslide" are not forthcoming from New England. The republicans can stand the loss of a few thousands in Maine over the figures of # 1900, and still be happy.
 General Kuropatkin, remarks the N. Y. Tribune, entered on the war with the declaration that he would not let a single fighting Japanese get back to # his country alive and that he would dictate terms of peace from Tokio. But circumstances alter cases, and by this time he may have new set of in- tentions.
 Great progress has been made in Ire land with the Town Tenants League within the last few months It aims to do for the tenants in towns what the various forms of the Land League have done for the agricultural tenants-to protect town tenants from confiscat- ton of the improvements by ground landlords. A doctor in the coal mining districts of upper Silesia thinks he has discover ed in coal dust cure for consumption. owing to its drying and disinfecting ef- fleets on the lung tubercles. He was led to Investigation by the fact that con- sumptive people coming from other re- gions to the neighborhood of mines re- cover their health.
 Fife Widener, granddaughter of P. A. B. Widener, celebrated her third birth day at Newport, R. l., recently by giv- ing a party for lot of her small l friends. She took far more interest in some presents of woody lambs and toy cows than in the bit of paper with grandpa's name at the bottom which is l worth $5oO,oOO to her now.
 Elaborate preparations are being made for the celebration in November At BalIarat Australia If fho fiftia+h |