The 16th annual report of the Local dos;;;;;ment Board,issued on Monday, contains the r e p or t o f th e medical officer for 1886. 'This deals, among other matters, with the experience of the department as to vaccination in England and Wales. Complaints of injury occurring from

fropyright.] GIRL IN A THOUSAND. By JEAN MIDDLEMASS, Author of " Lady 'Muriel's Secret," " The Spi.hir the " Poisoned Arrow," " Wtild Uaorgio," CHAPTER XL FERDINAND AT DOME. " Mulasome Rawl," as it is a sort of fashion to call the Stanhope's seeond son, is lying full length On th

The will of the Right Hon. Jonathan Christian, late of Merrion-square, South Dublin, formerly Lord Justice of Appeal in Chancery in Ireland, has been proved in Dublin and resealed in London. The value of the personal estate in England and Ireland amounts to upwards of £7o,ooo.—T

On Thursday a conference on national prohibition was held at the Memorial Hall, Farringdon-street, London. The Rev. F. Hastings (London) presided, and in opening the proceedings said he recognised the value of moral suasion, but he believed that a great deal more good could be d

meeting. MR. SULLIVAN, M.P., SENT TO PRISON. The charge against Mr. T. D. Sullivan, M.P., Lord Mayor of Dublin, of publishing in the Nation newspaper reports of meetings of suppressed branches of the National League, has been finally adjudicated upon by Mr. O'Donnell, chief polic

- - The will of the late ' Mr. W. Clapeott-Dean, of Holdenhurst, Bournemouth, Hants, has been proved this week at £21,. *_ • rs - At Killarney, on Wednesday, three men were sentenced to one month's imprisonment each for taking part in a demonstration on the occasion of Mr. T. Ha

gentleman, an expert, who came over for the . pu rpm?, have been arranging the collection, finding out the dates and writing the catalogue. Many JACKYTIBOI. gentlemen of keen artistic taste had purchased Jacky was a magpie, Jacky was a thief. Still he curious specimens of old Ja

, A Lom; Lane that has no turning.—Long Lane, Smithfield, E.C., of course. THAT'S TRUE—There is no bore in the world so bad as the man who will persist in talking of himself when you naturally want to talk of yourself. ArrEn THE "ClNDEem.a."—Maude (with the insufferable pride of

As a fire at a laundry, in Brixton, was being extinguished, Mrs. Tadman, the wife of the proprietor, exclaimed that her children were in the upper rooms , of the house. Firemen Westhrop and Mitchell inone- I diatcly dashed for the staircase, but recoiled before the dense volumes