The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1891-04-25 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

CONTEMPORARY CHAT.  In foe of the suburbs of Hamburg a clergyman In his aster sermon called the story of the Rem. rection a legend, and at the confirmation classes he Spoke in the same way of the story of Christ's birth, and its celebration at Christnaa. • petition Ms now been submitted to the superior Church authorities to remove the clergyman from his pod for denial of the doctrine of the Christian faith. A similar case is reported from Liegnits, in Silesia.  Some interesting particulars have been officially issued of the career of Mr. Eugene Holliday, the young pupil of Rubinstein, who, having arrived in Loudon, is about to give a pianoforte recital. It appears that his rather is English, and that Eugdns .was born in 1.872 in St. Petersburg, where last yeas he finished his musical education. At the Conservatoire he studied four years under Anton Rubinstein and was the recipient for nine years of a stipend from the Czarina. Further, he gained the first prize at the Conservatoire, and in recognition of his ability was; presented by the Grand Duchess Catherine of Mecklenburg with a Bechstein grand pianoforte. The &bet of a performer who has won so many honours elsewhere will be awaited with some curiosity.- .  Without vouching for the truth of it, we must tell our readers a little story, which goes the round of many a pleasant afternoon tea at the present moment. A lady from some country where people still roll in wealth, has come to London and craves for fame as a well-dressed, fashionable woman. To outshine the many dangerous rivals she is no doubt discovering in the field, she has had the unique idea to make an arrangement with a firstclass dressmaker and milliner, who is to supply her every week with a given number of confections, the principal condition being that nobody else is to have anything like it. This sounds almost like return to the Middle Ages, where all the great folks of this world used to have their own special trade.people.—TA. Period.  We have scarcely had time to forget the sad revelations concerning ether-drinking in the North of Ireland when an American contemporary publishes a long account of a new and most deleterious form of intoxication prevalent, it would seem, in some of the Prohibition States. Thousands of people have taken to drinking essence of ginger! This drug It alleged to be made by allowing pure alcohol to filter through powdered ginger, the result being a fluid with 92 per cent, of pure alcohol, or about twice the strength of proof whisky, and much more than twice as strong as the ordinary whisky of commerce. Women are represented AS taking four to six ounces of this potent drug in the course of the day, and some have even been known to take a pint of it. Considering the specific effect of ginger on the liver, and the strength of the essence, even when taken "in a little water" as the custom seems to be, it is difficult to imagine a more certain method of slow suicide.  I. H. McVicker, the American veteran theatrical manager, thus relates his first encounter with the late Lawrence Barrett, the famous tragedian :—Along In the '6os I was in Cleveland as the manager of a star. You know in those days the stock company flouri•hed. On my arrival in the Ohio city the local manager and I sat down to arrange the cast for tie, first piece to be presented. When we bad exhausted the list of the local manager's actors there remained one small part yet to be filled. Turning to the bell boy, he said: "Johnnie, run over to Jones's printing shop and ask Larry to come here." In a few minutes the boy returned, accompanied by a young man who held his head high in the air. He had evidently just left his case, for his sleeves were rolled up and his fingers were black with handling type. "Larry," said the manager, "do you think you can learn this part and be able to play it to-morrow night?" The young man glanced over it, and in a contemptuous sort of way said, "I should hope so." "What name shall I place on the programme ?" asked L The young man drew himself up and proudly answered, "Lawrence Barrett, sir."  According to the Daily Graphic correspondent in Rome, the Capitals Fraea sac has published fresh particulars regarding the reported losses sustained by Leo