Bridport, Beaminster, and Lyme Regis Telegram and Dorset, Somerset, and Devon Advertiser. — 1882-05-05 (Bridport, Dorset, England)

MAN.—Mr. freer Walpole, who has bees appointed to succeed Sir spry Brougham-Loch in the Lieut.-Governorship of the Isle of Man, Is the eldest eon of the Right Hon. Spencer Horatio Walpole, Q.C.' M.P. for the University of Cambridge, and a kinsmaniof the Earl of Oxford. He was born in 1839, his mother being Isabella, fourth daughter of the late Right Hon. Spencer Perceval, great uncle ot the Earl of Egmont. Mr. Walpole, who has held for some time the office of Chief Inspector of Fisheries, married, in 1867, Marion, youngest daughter of the Intr. Sir John Digby Murray, of Blackbarony, Peebles-eh,, e. MB. Mannar, the American millionaire, ham arranged to build an hotel in London somewhat on the scale of the Palace Hotel in San Francisoo, which is equal in, size to about five of our biggest hotels. There will be 1,600 mites 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 of 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, altar Wright, (shoe Cort, a omelet undergoing liftmen 'Tars' penal servitude, was indicted, on his own confession, for the wilful murder of Maria Fitzsimmons at Smder. land thirteen years ago. A confession of the prisoner 'was discovered in the Serpentine in London. He was found Runty. Before being sentenced to death he read a long statement with regard to the crime and the evils of drunkenness ; but, on being stopped by the judge, he threw it into the reporters' box. Sentence of death waa passed in the usual form. A RlDlkllitenui application of science to the art of reporting is now to be seen nightly in the House of Commona The Times newspaper has there fitted 111, number of telephones communicating with the operators seated at type composing machines at the office in Printing House-square, and the reporters may if they like—for the matter is optional—dictate their terms to the typ,. setters without writing their reports at all. A con%circ able portion of The Times parliamentary report set-up nightly from dicitation through the telephon,,, with a little gain of time upon the old method, and with much saving of labour on the part of Ithe reporters. The system biotin imperfect. A Sari,—" Pardon me for troubling you, sir, but did you drop a sovereign?" leaked a man with an earnest look en his face and • memorandum-book lit his hand, of a well-dressed individual on Ludgate-hill. The man addressed ran his hands nervously into various pocket-, and replied, "Well, now, I declare I Can it be possible that I was so aweless as to drop it? Yes, it's lone! I must have kat it here near where we stand." The man opesed his memorandum-book, took from his vest. pocket the stub of • lead-pencil, and said, "Will you favcur me with your name and address?" They were given, and the questioner moved on, when the welldressed man cried, "ill, there! Where's the men.,, Give me my sovereign " "Oh, I didn't find any money ' I took a notion this ;morning that hi a city lake this, where thomands and tboamodo of pounds are hawile,l eVefy hoar, them sea be %Vox" and started out invertigate Vie stalke. bore and Qtaziaft crow I farad wee ass WA bill: joirridiusi and I expock to fee tbe NM op lOW hien essob the book. Good den slaw  2==a  MONEY! MONEY 1 I MONEY! ll