Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1913-06-03
GOSSIP OF THE COURTS

worth working besides announcing
in advance big society weddings, fun
erals, parties. &C., where beggar
may expect to do a good business,
and there is published at Zurich,
Switzerland, The Engaged Couples
Advertiser It's object is to furnish
advertising firms with the names and
addresses OF those who are about to
set up housekeeping The latter pro-
ne by the numerous samples Of goods
sent them.
But perhaps the most curious Jour
nal Of all is the HirmOndo, OF Buda-
pest. which is the only newspaper"
in the world that telephones instead
of printing its news. For half a crown
a month the subscriber has all the
news Of the day, stock exchange 1uc-
tuatiOns, SC. phoned TO him. At noon
he may take up his receiver and lis
ten TO an enthralling short story, and
( in the evening he may listen TO the
music at the Grand opera House.
The King Of England has done the
right thing in persuading the Duchy
Of Cornwall to buy Mai Dun" (the
tiil of Strength near Dorchester.
Like its neighbor giant. the amphithe-
atre at Maumbury. this huge citadel OF
ll5 acres is of unknown antiquity.
The highest local antiquarian author
ity declares that the people who con-
structed its three steep ramparts. sixty
feet high, with its bitches and gates,
cannot have used anything resembling
our modern fiat spades. but must
have employed celts or narrow tools
by which small quantity OF earth
could be removed at a time" To de-
fend this vast city OF refuge many
thousands of men would be necessary,
but probably the folks inside trusted
entirely to their ramparts.
The Order OF the Thistle, of which
Lord Haldune has been made knight,
dates only from the last day Of 1903.
Centuries earlier. however. the thistle
was the national badge Of Scotland.
and the origin Of its cmblematic use by
tradition is referred TO the Danish in
vasion Of Scotland The invaders
planned night attack and marching
barefoot. had contrived to creep close
10 the Scottish forces unobserved.
when ono OF them stepped on a thistle
and uttered a cry of pain. Thus the
alarm was given and the attack failed.
Out Of gratitude the thistle was adopt
ed as the insignia Of Scotland.
II is not often that we find woman
acting as church warden. but Wis
countess Gage who has been lomi-
mated to that position at Firle. in Sus-
scx. is not the first by any means. Per-
haps the best-known instance at the
present is afforded by Isabella. March
/ ioness of Exeter, the mother Of the
present marques. Last year she was
elected for the fourteenth time in sue
cession. peoples warden at Deeping st.
James, a village in Lincolnshire, where
the living is in her gift
Similarity i'm the free churches
women are sometimes. though not fire.
quently elected to offices that are
more or less analogous. Among the
! Congregationalists Lady Spicer holds
unique position. She appears to be
tho only woman member Of the exist.
ling council OF the Congregations
Union. being one Of the thirty repre-
sentatives of the London Union. A
the recent opening OF new Congrega-
tional church in northwest London
Lady Spicer made a plea for more use
10 he made of the members Of her se'
in the government of the churches.