Paganini, for giving an audience a bit of his mind once, had to fly for his life. In Ferrara he had asked'* dancer to fill in the time between twojsolos with a dance. The audience applauded, only somebody in the gallery whistled. When Paganini came on he announced that he would give some imitations of different birds, which liq did. But before ho finished he advanced to the footlights and produced some marvellous " hee-haws "on his violin. " That's for the whistlers," he said, and the gallery, furious, dashed downstairs, broke into the orches tra, climbed on to the stage, and Paganini fled out of a back door and left Ferrara there and then to save himself from an infuriated mob. It has long been known that many of the British aristocracy are taking to trade. The Marquis of Shrewsbury and the Earl of Durham are both well-known colliery owners, and carts bearing their noble names retail the coal all over London. Now comes the information that the now Premier is in the milk trade. A writer in a London paper gives the following gossip:—

Accidentally the other day I cam© upon the interesting information that Lord Rose bory, like Lord Rayleigh, is in the milk trade. Unlike Lord Rayleigh, howovor, ho carries on his business in private, or rather under the shadow of other people's names. Lord Eosebery is probably one of the largest milksoilers in London. Since taking to the

milk line, he has found it so profitable tha ho has oxtonded hia trade in all direction!. Wherever a milk-walk, or, as thoy now call thorn, a dairy, is in tho market, thoro is Lord Itoscbofy ready to buy. His agents havo authority to buy up every dairy they can got hold of, provided tho price bo reasonable. Thoy koop on buying, and in duo time Lord Rosebery will booomo a monopolist. But ho is not extravagant in his pretensions to become Farmor-Goneral of Milk to Her Majesty's subjects. He is content with a modest 10 per cent, on his invested capital. His dairies are worked by managors. When a dairy has earned 10 per cent, tho balanco of tho profit becomes the manager's.
