Widnes Examiner. — 1890-03-29 (Widnes, Cheshire, England)

BETTER THAR CURE." BEETHAR'S glycerine and cucumber will we found invaluable for preventing the slsin becoming rough or red from the severe changes of ternßeratuse which take place at this time of the year. It will keep it soft, smooth, and white all the year round and greatly improve tbe complexion. "Beet/lan's "is the only genuine. Bottles Is. of all chemists. Free for 3d. extra by BEETRAM and Sox, chemists. Cheltenham.—Adrt..  M. Pasteur will receive after Easter some of his English-speaking admirers who have got up an album which they wish to present to him. It was purchased with the proceeds of a subscription in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain, and opens with the dedicatory inscription to" M. Pasteur, the benefactor of the ;human race,"' ivritten by the Princess of Wales. Her Royal Highness visited the Pasteur Institute when last in Paris.  Dom Pedro and his suite continue to occupy the I whole of the first floor of the Hotel Sejoin, at Nice, greatly to the dismay of the Prince de Joinville and other of his Orleanist relations, who will have to pay the little bill. The Prince deJoinville has done his utmost to persuade Dom Pedro to disafiss some of the members of his numerous suite and to live in more modest style. But this the exiled monarch, who has no notion of the Tally.) of money, and who is a, firm friend, refuses to do. a .  " Count " Dillon, formerly counsellor and treasurer of General Boulanger, is living at present in a handsome villa at Clarens, on the Lake of Geneva. He has fine horses and carriages, an army of servants, and fares sumptuously every day. His two sons. tall young fellows, are often to be seen with him. I The one is about to enter the Order of the Jesuits. while the other is in a hussar regiment. The " Count" appears to have washed his hands entirely of Boulangism, and turns up his eyes to heaven in a sanctimonious manner whenever the name of the General is mentioned.  There are now placed in the Museum at Pompeii the plaster casts of the bodies of two men and a woman, taken from impressions made in a stratum of aslies outside the Stabian Gate. One of the men had fallen on his baer,and the other,which is remarkably perfect, on his side, while the woman lies on her face with her arms stretched out. The impression of the tree with foliage and fruit has been examined and found to ,be a variety of the laurus nobilis, the round berries of which ripen in late autumn; and, as the impression found shows the fruit to have been ripe, it seems to prove that the destruction of Pompeii did not occur in August, as believed by many, but in November.  A romantic story is being told of Mrs. Amelie Rives-Chanler, the sometime authoress, who has , adopted the profession of artist. While she was studying in Paris one of her fellow-students, a young fellow of talent, fell in love with her; he made professions of his passion and the fair young lady rebuffed him, but still counted him in her list of good friends. The fellow was by no means discouraged. Re continued his importunities, and when Mr. Chanler went to Paris and took his wife on a trip to Algiers the love-sick artist went along, too. It was in Algiers that the unfortunate young man finally recognised the folly and the hopelessness of his pursuit. To end his misery, he committed suicide.  It really looks as if the Academicians were going to boycott the Academy Exhibition. Some of the best known men are sending their important work elsewhere. Mr. Long sends his subject picture to the Dore Gallery. Mr. Poynter keeps in the nataloge by a small work. His large picture goes to a dealer's show. Of .Jr. Riviere the samt thing may be said. Mr. Borne Jones has been working hard, but it is into anothergarner than the great storehouse !in Piccadilly that the harvest of his year of ' industry will be gathered. It all seems very strange. Financial reasons may explain it. The dealer gives a big price, and the shillings taken at the doors recoup him part of his purchase money. He has an exhibition of his own,and wants to secure • his attraction. But it is a. question whether he ought to meet with so ready an acquiesc.nce on the part of the painters, and whether the Academicians • do not 9we fealty to their own institution.  Here is a Gull story. which,though a " chestnut" to some, to the thousands who have never heard it is worth telling. Sir William's butler was a great character: a small dark man, always whitechokered, and dressed in black, with a calm solemn manner. His 'income from tips must have been large, as the waiting-room was always crammed, and the order of audience was settled by him. One day, summoned to the street door by a more than ordinary fierce knock, he found an excited individual just alighted from the cab. "Sir William Gull in?" "Yes, sir." "I want to see him." " Have you an appointment, sir ? " " Appointment ?—no! I'm very ill. I want to see Sir William." "Impossible, sir, without an appointment." Naughty word emitted by visitor; then: "When can I see him ?" "Well, sir," after consulting paper, "at eleven on Tuesday next." 'Tuesday next be—! I'm very ill! I tell you I must see some one! Do you know anyone near who could see me ? " Servant, after cogitation: " Well, sir, there's a gentleman Over the way—a very respectable practitioner named .Tenner—he might be able to see you!"  KAY'S COMPOUND, for Coughs and Colds. Asthma and Bronchitis are immediately relieved by it —Advt.