More newspapers are printed In the United Stated Uun in Eugland, Fran oo, and Germany. The Japanese craiser Idssamo, hfcs been launched from the Elswick Ship building Yard, Nowoastle. This the twelfth vessel built by ihie firm for th» Japanese navy. The Royal cuown of Persia, which dates right back to the remote ages, 13 in the form of & pob of flawetß, BUX moauted by an uncuc ruby the size of a hen's egg. The Wandsworth and CUpham Guard ians have circulated the names of f>Q men whose desertion has caused their wives and families to become ch»rgo»blo to the parish. The educational system of Denmark Is so perfect and popaiar th*t throjgout the entire coamry there it not one illiterate family. ; The Board of Trade has issued a warn ; ing to shipowners advising greater pre cautions owing to the loss of life from the use of s earn winches arid steel ' hawsers. Sir Thomas Llpton has informed the New York correspondent of the Central | News that he has offered the Standard ; Insurance Company — che mortgagees — L 50.000 for the Muckroas Eat.te, Kll- Urney. If his offer was accepted ha would m^ke the estate over to the Irish people. Ac Weymouth two army students, umned Odnall and Merritt, were aenn tenced to a month's hud labor for tort mring a cab by setting four dogs to worry t. Qaeen Victoria learnb in a carious way thao she was to be Queeu of Engl»od, Six years before her accession — when she was twelve — her mother inserted iv her history book a genealogical table brnoing the descent of the ralera of Eogiand from the time of William 1., and on read" mg through this she found her own name placed as the next occupant) of the throne.
