Án uneornf ortably tight shoe may be ma...

Án uneornf ortably tight shoe may be made easy by laying a cloth wet in hot water across where it pinches, changing as it cools several time's. During the process the leather will shape itself to the foot. The late Lord Beanchamp, of England, was always planning for the fature. A week or two bef ore his death he was in the garden of one of his country places and asked his gardener how long a handsome avenue of trees would last. "About fifty years," said the gardener. "Then you must have sometMng ready to take their place," he said, and prornptly ordered fifty young oaks to be prepared for planting. General Rosecrans, the register of the treasury, is remarkably vigorous at seventy-one years. He breakfasts every inorning at 7, reaches his desk by 9, and remains there hard at work till 4. The bulk of his salary goes to old soldiers and other needy claiinants on his charity. Mr. Justice Stephen's evident insanity while on the benen is a public scandal m London, though one that, such are the libel laws in England, no great jourlal dares openly to djgcuss. The annual pólice report states that there are nearly 20,000 habitual crimináis in London. There were 463 burgkries, 36 fewer than in the previous year.