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During the war he organized the "French Printers' Relief Fund," and for this and other services he was awarded a Prize of Virtue by the French Academy. Through the French Government he has sent to all the associations of printing employers and workers in the United States, according to an article in the "American Printer," a souvenir de luxe, thanking them for their aid in the cause of liberty. At the Iowa Inter-State Fair, a newspaper despatch says, special honors were carried off by girls' and boys' clubs of North Dakota. They won three first prizes-on calves, pigs, and lambs-while in the sewing exhibits the girls won first honors over eleven States. North Dakota and Nebraska, the report says, won more honors than any other State represented at the fair. 66 A serio-comic incident is related in the Century" in connection with the death of the Prince Imperial in Zululand, in 1879, when he was ambushed and killed by Zulus. A few articles associated with the Prince were obtained from Cetewayo, the Zulu King, and forwarded to the exEmpress Eugénie. The Prince's watch was not among them. An old Zulu warrior was questioned about this. "The little beast, you mean? Oh, we were afraid of it, so we killed it." Having no notion about the nature of the mysterious mechanism, they thought the ticking of the watch meant a live creature, so they stamped it out of existence ! Probably in no similar area in the world can as many beautiful homes be found as in the few thousand square miles near London. Numerous pictures of these attractive places fill the advertising pages of "Country Life" (London); and if so many are for sale, what must be the total number? Among those advertised for sale in a recent issue of that journal is "Craig-y-Nos Castle," the home of the late Adelini Patti. The extent of her place, as well as the (to an American) seemingly meager provision of bathrooms, is indicated by the statement that the castle contains thirty-four bed and dressing rooms and three bathrooms. With 457 acres of land, its price is given as only £30,000, which in American money at present rates of exchange is only a little more than $100,000. Some other operatic star, one would think, would be tempted by this "bargain." A workman in a Western electric-light plant, a newspaper despatch says, swung his right fist and hit a fellow-employee on the point of the jaw. The blow nearly knocked the man out-but saved his life. He had taken hold of a plug which had been charged by a short circuit, and could not break away. His mate sensed the situation and instantly struck the blow which loosened the grip that might have proved fatal. Apropos of the paragraph about the word " mugwump "in the issue of The Outlook for October 20, a subscriber writes: "I beg to call your attention to John Fiske's The Beginnings of New England,' at page 230, where he says: In Eliot's Bible the word which means a great chief-such as Joshua or Gideon or Joab-is Mugwump. Mr. Fiske in a foot-note adds that the word has remained in local use in some parts of Massachusetts and Connecticut all along, and in Illinois in 1840 a certain Democratic candidate for county commissioner was called 'the great Mugwump.'" "Most of the examples of mispronunciation you have published are taken from the speech of ignorant persons. At a recent meeting, however, a well-known bishop and a noted banker agreed in mispronouncing the word consortium. Webster and the Century dictionaries both give kon-sor'shi-um.' (The Standard Dictionary, however, pronounces the word kon-sor'ti-um, and the eminent gentlemen named may, after all, have "looked it up.") 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