The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1893-11-04 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

PEWS.  The Marl at Jenny -big forwaphafi to Mr. Grigoet.' secretary st. Joha's Lodge, Inverses, a beautiful gold *nil, width was presentee to Captain °rigor la 1174 for eervices rendered totitehiceilma It was "Mei io toed /ersey,lshan In SONY, handed beekto the old harm by the of its irighard owner. lltfo top* (says the Ihee Chronicle) to have So esnioanee that irregularitlet of a very awls* character have past come to light in the insurance world, and hive created a most painful iampression. Several officials of • well-known imamate* oralpony, bolding high positions, have been implicate:l in lases which are variously estimated to run from £15,000 to 4140,000. The latter Item is, we understand, exaggerated.  Dousella, chief lighthouse-keeper at Bon ifacio, iz Corsica, who has just died, was, writes the saris correspondent of the Daily Teleprept, one of the heroes of the war of 1870. While Marshal Wain. was shut up iu Metz the Corsican swam down the Moselle with sealed instructions for him on. night. Donnell& had to run the gauntlet of the German outposts, and notwithstanding the darkness he was pursued and was frequently fired at. lie managed, however, to dodge the bullets by keeping his head as much as possible under water, only coming up to the surface every now and then like • porpoise, in order to have • "hlow." After having handed over the deepatahes to liszsine be returned to his camp by the same dangerous river route. The Corsican. who was a native of Ajaccio, was one of the print-pis' witnessses at the court-martial of Derain..  A curious sad oonviucing proof that in the United States the War of indevendenoe Ili still fresh in the public mind, and that Eastern people passing to new homes in the Far West do not lase their love of old localities, is furnished by an incident just reported from Philadelphia—namely, that thirteen I cans of earth have besin recently taken from historic I spots in that city, and forwarded to Bab Francisco, 3,000 miles to the weld, where a tree will be planted in what is called "soil of the Revolution." This earth was taken from a garden wherein one Betsy Rosa made the Prat American Bag; from the grave of Benjamin Franklin; from Independence Square, where the Declaration of independence was signed, and from grounds at Merlon, near Philadelphia, once occupied by the old mill which limed as a Tory refuge in revolutionary days,— Deily aroosiele.  The suicide of the Hon. P. C. Howard. second saw the Earl of Effingham, draws painful attention to sue of the most illustrious houses in the British peer. ige. The first Lord Howard of Effingham got his sunny from Queen Mary. in 1554, while the !sown admiral, who defeated the Armada, and shoo won the battle for Protestantism as &Wrist Catholicism, was himself a Boman Catholic. lie get the Ant of the new earldoms in this branch of the Howard*, the earldom of Nottingham, and, says ise Rimini Niles and Peat, it was his second wife who was the famous Countess of Nottingham that opt bath Essex's ring from Queen Elizabeth, and, when she begged Bess's pardon, on her death-bed, got cursed and cursed heartily. Another earldom was In the family from 1738 to 1818. 'llse Hon. P. C. Howard is—or rather was—a man of fifty-three, who served in the Guards, and married the Lady Constance Finch-Hatton, a daughter of the late Earl of Wiochilses.  Tredegar HOuse, Lord Salisbury's headquarters during his visit to Wales, is an unpretentious brick building standing in woods on the hillside behind Newport. The house was divested of many cf its treasures on the death of the late Lord Tredegar, who left his collection of watches, dials, chamberlain's keys, and paps' rings to the British Museum. Lord Salisbury's host to-day, the present peer, has the distinction of being a survivor of Balaclava. He rode behind Sir George Wombwell In the charge; but soon afterwards forsook the Gelds of glory for the more profitable Aside of coal. For nearly 20 years Lord 'Tredegar has been the owner of the most valuable estate in Wales. The Monmouthshire property alone brings him in £lOO,OOO, and be bas an enormously productive mineral estate in Glamorganabire, and land In Brecknock as well. Lord Tredegar is a peer of hospitable inclination. Last year when the Associated Chambers of Commerce met at Newport be played * host in generous fashion.--,Merniag Leader.  One of the greatest evils of the present state Of khe law of libel is, says the Literary World, the liability of a mere distributing agent to be mull/Med Is damages for selling a newspaper containing a libel. Hence responsible newsvendors are apt to boycott a journal as soon as they hear of a dangerous article having appeared in it. The Pall Mali Gazette is the latest sufferer by this unwritten law of the trade, Messrs. W. 11. Smith and Sons having refused to gen the paper at their stalls since the commencement of the interesting and instructive series of articles on Mr. C. B. Harness and his electropathic" belt. We do not suppose, however, that this tefusal of Messrs. W. H. Smith has had shy other effect than to whet the appetite of the ablicokbleh; e'er antis Lord Kelvpi gave eVidence In coast about "belt," has been anxiously waiting for developments. The editor of a paper that has the millions of Mr. Astor it ita bick was obviously the right one to go out to Mortal combat with this wonderful personage, of whom so many Important people stand in silent awe. The duel is being watched with keen interest, but ad yet Mr. UalmeSS WI made no sign of returning the fearful blows dealt him.  We have become resigned to hearing that most of sar lauded inventions were known to the Chinese a thousand years ago, before any European evolved them; but, Writes "Miranda " in the Lady,' a Pictorial, it is news to learn tbat Japan had a dress bf a now familiar fashion hundreds of years before Paris. It seems incredible, but I have recently heard of a wonderfol State dress worn by an Empress of Japan in the 13th century, and preserved in a temple near Yokohama. It is kept In an old coffer, wrapped in white silk, and oonideta of seven robes, or garments, all of diaphanous material, crumbling away with decay at the edges. The outer robe is of crepe, and has a long train, pagoda sleeves, and a high Medici collar or ruff! This robe—once white—is now almost yellow, and is embroidered with eying birds the else of crows, and dragons' heads—green, blue and violet. Beneath this were worn several skirts of muneuelisie de 'tie, yellow, blue. violet, old gold, and green, over which were scattered strange animals, all in flight. I /be seventh garment, which touched the body of the late Empress, 11113 violet in colony, and embroidered in misty figures like phantoms. The ' needlework ornamenting this wonderful costume is 11 exquisitely line, and the pattern as transparent as I Mail gauze which home the backgiound.