_Harold_ (_unconsciously ranking himself with the Great_). "FATHER, I CANNOT TELL A GOOD LIE."] * * * * * It seems a pity that so little is done to encourage the growing love of art among the criminal classes. The Italian gentleman who guarded "La Gioconda" so carefully has not been so much as thanked for his pains, and now it is stated that six persons have been arrested in Paris and Brussels for removing art objects from the admittedly unsafe custody of museums. * * * Stout residents of Cornforth, Durham, having protested against the narrowness of some of the gateways on the local paths, the parish council has decided to widen them. It was found that this would be more economical than to send these citizens to Marienbad to have their bulk reduced. * * * Publishers are continually making finds, and Messrs. DUCKWORTH AND CO. have been peculiarly fortunate. In their current list they announce the publication of "Lost Diaries" and "The Lost Road." * * * "Sale of Votes by Women. Incidents in a Chicago Election." _Daily Express._ By a curious coincidence we have seen ladies selling _Votes for Women_ in the streets of London. * * * Yet another example of the industry of the foreigner. A pamphlet issued by the Lincolnshire Chick Farm informs us that "On the Cyphers' Co. Poultry Plant, one flock of 400 White Leghorns shows an average of 185.2 eggs per bird in 36.5 days." This, we need scarcely tell our readers, works out at 5.06849315 eggs per bird per day. * * * * * Another Episcopal Scandal. "KING AND NEW BISHOPS. The King received at Buckingham Palace to-day the new Bishops of Chelmsford and St. Edmundsbury and Ipswich. The Home Secretary administered the oath. FOUND TO BE INSANE. Judgment was reserved." _Westminster Gazette._ * * * * * "Much the largest of all the woodpeckers in this country is the great black woodpecker (_Picus martius_). This is a very rare species, occurring only in the wilds of the wooded mountain areas. It is about 18 miles in length." _Pekin and Tientsin Times._ As the crow flies. * * * * * England's far-reaching Influence. "RESULT OF THE POPLAR ELECTION. NO FOREIGNER SAFE IN MEXICO." "_Yorkshire Observer" Placard._ * * * * * "SIR WILLIAM RAMSAY'S POSER STARTLES AUDIENCE. Special Cable to the New York Times and Montreal Gazette. London, February 4.--Sir William Ramsay raised the question whether the unfit should be left to die at the annual dinner of the Institute of Sanitary Engineers to-night." _The Gazette (Montreal)._ There would, of course, be no difficulty about the "funeral bakéd meats." * * * * * IN MEMORIAM. John Tenniel. BORN 1820. DIED FEBRUARY 25TH, 1914.