The Poole Telegram. — 1882-05-05 (Poole, Dorset, England)

MACKAY. the American millionaire, has arrauged to build an hotel in London somewhat on the scale of the Palace Hotel in San Francisco, which is equal in size to about five of our biggest hotels. There will be 1,6(5) suites of rooms, and the cost of the undertaking will be £2,000,000. . _ _  Now that the entries for the implement department of the Reading show-yard have finally closed it is clear that, at any rate so far as the extent of shedding is concerned. the forthcoming show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England will actually outvie the great exhibition at Derby last summer, where a total length of shedding ot 12,751 feet was required for the display of the goods entered for exhibition, while at Reading next July as much as 13,017 feet will be occupied in the same manner. AT the Durham assizes, on Thursday, Thomas Fury, ridial Wright, alias Cort, a convict undergoing fifteen years' penal servitude, was indicted, on his own confession, for the wilful murder of Maria Fitzsimmons at &Rider. land thirteen years ago. A confession of the prisomer was discovered in the Serpentine in London. He wari found guilty. Before being sentenced to death he rerAd a long statement with regard to the crime and the evils of drunkenness; but, on being stopped by the jil4hte, he threw it into the reporters' box. Sentence ot death was passed in the usual form. - -  A RBMARKABLE application of science to the art of reporting is now to be seen nightly in the House of Commons. The Times newspaper has there fitted or, a number of telephones communicating with the operator, seated at type composing machines at the office in Printing House-square, and the reporters may if they liks—toi the matter is optional—dictate their terms to the. type setters without writing their reports at all. A con.tdorable portion of The Times parliamentary report is thuset-up nightly from dictation through the telephone, with a little gain of time upon the old method, and with much saving of labour on the pan of the reporters. The system is still imperfect.  A. SntL.—" Pardon me for troubling you, air, but did you drop a sovereign?" asked a man with an earnest look on his face and a memorandum-book in his hand, of a well-dressed individual on Ludgate-hill. The man addressed ran his hands nervously into various pockets, Bud replied, "Well, now, I declare I Can it be possible that I was so careless as to drop it? Yes, it's gone! I must have lost it here near where we dud." The man opened his memorandum-book, took from his vestpocket the stub of a lead-pencil, and said, "Will you favour me with your name and address!" They wero given, and the questioner moved on, when the welldressed man cried, "Ili, there ! Where's the moiler Give me my sovereign I" " Oh, I didn't find any money ' I took a notion this morning that in a city like tlii where thousands and thousands of pounds are haleil, every hour, there must be great losses, and started oett to investigate the matter. Between hero and Charing cross I found seven men that had lost sovereigns, and I expect to run the list up to two hundred before 1 coach the bank! Good day, air I"