The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1873-03-06 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

QUEEN ANNE'S BOUNTY.  "A Poor Rector" writes to The Times:—  Queen Anne's Bounty is a tax ostensibly levied on the richer benefices for an increase of the poorer ones. The gross annual value of my benefice Is £250, including the rent (£3O) which I receive from letting the house, by courtesy styled the "Rectory-house." When I was appointed to the living I was informed by the Governors that I had to jisy them between £l7 and £lB as first fruit!. Ever since then I am mulcted in the annual sum of 14s. 6d. to assist my "poorer" brethren. Surely it is a little hard that so small a living as mine should be thus taxed, while many very large ones pay nothing at aIL lam reminded of the disagreeable subject by receiving a letter from a well-known firm of ecclesiastical attorneys to the effect that "unless the above amount is paid at the Bounty office, Dean's-yard, Westminster, before or on Thursday next, the 6th day of March, Exchequer process will issue against you for the sum, with expenses, without further notice to you." Had I not a wife and seven children tq support out the MO per annum, I should object to be fined £1 141. 6d. annually to increase livings to a greater value than my own. The =alines* of my population, which precludes my reaping any personal benefit from Queen Anne's Benefit Bounty, has, I regret to say, no diminishing effe4 upon my children's appetites. They must eat whether my congregation be many or few. P.S. I do not with to make any complaint against the Governors of QIIOIII Anne's Bounty personally. They haves thankless duty to perform, and perform it considerately.. I eteplain of being mulcted—when butek• il./W:ilnlalarrto increase other men's  my own linotues.  A paragraph in some of the inocton papers announces that the South Western Railway Company have ascertained that good giros can be kept up by the =Ware of chalk with coal. They have therefore ordered that chalk shall be burned in the waiting-rooms of all their stations.  CUTTINGS FROM4AMEBICAN PAPEBI A short man does not fall in love with a tall wan; he climbs up to her.  A manufacturer advertises a patent shoe that will preyed horses from "balling." gpiner says this is not a new idea. ea Hrs. & has used a shoe often to stop the young goners bawling. It is said that female compositors "set up" their oopy very rapidly, being anxious to get the lies weed. Landseer has a rival in Mr. Jones of CWogp, who, as a dog Writer, has few equals. He can malstot aesch-dog out of a common white cur Alien mlnutca If 1111 turbo& There is one gar of jewellery which 1111111 quite common twenty yeas ago, bat is now rarely worn. We refer to the thimble. A lady's never seen in "thimble rig." The Nebraska Indians are allowed to ride free on all trains they can Jump on while the latter Is in motion. The tribe Is being reduced very rapidly. It is a strange question, but a rather pertinent one to ask, whether or not some of the homicides now so frequent are not got up in order to advertise the patent revolver they are committed with. This idea is paraded by the Yonkers Gazette.  A Tennessee hunter killed five wild turkeys at a single shot recently, -and got away with them before the owner mhsed them from the roost Michael Gorman, of Pontiac, Mich., hag died from the effect. of habitual over-eating, in spite of the warning of the disgusted doctor, who said, "If you will gormandise, why Gorman dies, that's all."