o the "troubled waters"?

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"He has represented Lowestoft at St. Stephen's--one of
the most important fishing centres in the country--for
many years past."

_Daily Paper._

The House of Commons seems to have been confused with Izaak Walton
Heath.

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"LADIES' GOLF AT RANELAGH.

Miss ---- played badly and tore up her card as well as
many other ladies of note."

_Provincial Paper._

But it is hoped that this method of thinning out the competitors will
not be generally resorted to.

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"MURAL TEACHING.

Speaking at Manchester last night Lord Haldane advocated
a great and new national reform by enabling the
Universities to train the best teachers of their own
level to go out and do extra Mural teaching on a huge
scale."

_Provincial Paper._

We gather that in our contemporary's opinion it is high time that our
Universities recognised "the writing on the wall."

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A VANISHED SPECIES.

THE great auk is but a memory; the bittern booms more rarely in our
eastern marshes; and now they tell me Brigadiers are extinct. Handsomest
and liveliest of our indigenous fauna, the bright beady eye, the flirt
of the trench coat-tail through the undergrowth, the glint of red
betwixt the boughs, the sudden piercing pipe--how well I knew them, how
often I have lain hidden in thickets and behind hedgerows to study them
more closely. How inquisitive the creature was, yet how seldom would it
feed from the hand. And now, it seems, they are gone.

Vainly I rack my brains to envisage the manner of their passing. Is
there to be nothing left but silence and a shadow or a specimen in a
dusty case of glass preserved in creosol and stuffed with lime? Or did
not the Brigadiers rather, when they felt their last hour was upon them,
retire like the elephants of the jungle to some distant spot and shuffle
off the mortal coil in the midst of Salisbury Plain or (for so I still
picture it despite the ravages of a rude commercialism) the vast
solitude of Slough?

Or it may be that they underwent some classic metamorphosis, translated
to a rainless paradise, where they dreamed of battalions for ever
inspected and the general salute eternally blown.

"And there, they say, two bright and aged snakes
Who once were brigadiers of