28 MAY 1892, page 12

Omens. T He Other Day, A Practical Joke Was Played On

one of the inspectors of police in Paris which, it is said, much dis- turbed and alarmed the victim of it. A priest was sent to him in the middle of the night to administer the......

The Incentives To Exploration.

T HE speech with which Mr. Whymper charmed his audience on Monday at the dinner of the Geographical Society, was not only singularly bright and humorous, but it was full of hope......