The model, which is said to be a triumph of art, cost J35000. A woman with six children was charged with sleeping in the open air in a court in London. It transpired that the house in which she had lived was condemned, and the tenants had to be evicted. For days eighty persons, including thirty-nine children, had slept under a tent whioh had been erected in the court. A mother told a' London Magistrate that a message waa sent into her house that the schoolmistress wanted to see her daughter, a child of six years. The child ran down. stairs and was taken into a cab, containing a strange man and woman, whioh drove off rapidly.. The mother subsequently re ceived a telegram, stating that tbe child was on her way to Germany. The seal ring worn by the Pope, and used by him on -official documents to which; his signature is attached, has on it the engraving of a fish- with the cipher of the wearer. : ~Sinoe the thirteenth ■ century every. Pope : has worn a ring .of this character, and it is shattered with a i hammer when the wearer dies, to prevent its use on a forged dqcument. It is said that an experiment was lately made at West Lynn in order to test the tractive power of electrioity against steam. A locomotive engine waa coupled to a large electric oar, and at the same moment they were started in opposite directions. At first, neither gained any advantage { but when sand waa thrown on the track, I the electric car gained the victory. A traveller describes a hook-swinging festival in India. The idea that hooks are thrust through the flesh of the man, he says, is incorrect. The holes through which the hooks pass are made when the performers are quite young, and are kept open just as ladies' ears are, by rings or plugs. He says the hook-swinging ceremony is not cruel, although it has been abolished throughout British territory. i It is nob every Englishman who knows there is an American Peerage published. 