PROGRESS OF THE JVORLD. 



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MISS DUNCAJS^. 



The First London Lady J. P. 



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laughing at his burlesqued dignity. 

 Had he lived in the da\"s of Charles 

 Dickens, Mr. Willis would have figured 

 as the presiding judge in Bardell v. 

 Pickwick. His lectures from the Chair 

 on Parliamentar}^ proprieties ; his 

 efforts to flatten out innocent and un- 

 offending officers of the House with the 

 steam-roller of assumed authority, will 

 be quoted among the humours of Par- 

 liament to succeeding generations. 

 Just what his resignation will mean to 

 the Holman Government for the rest of 

 the session cannot yet be determined. 

 He ma\' assume a fighting attitude, and 

 vote to turn out a Government which he 

 has declared no longer enjoys the con- 

 fidence of the electors. He may ally 

 himself with the Independents ; but in 

 his present mood he is more likely to 

 form a new party and elect himself 



leader over a rank and file that has- no 

 existence outside Mr. Willis. 



A Strong Man Armed. 



People who admire a strong man, 

 with sufficient moral courage in his 

 nature to insist on having his own way, 

 have much to admire in Mr. Tom John- 

 son, the Chief Commissioner for New 

 South Wales Railways. The New South 

 Wales public had never known what it 

 was to have a railway system com- 

 pletely beyond political control until 

 Mr. Johnson took command. There 

 was an Act of Parliament which de- 

 clared that the management of the rail- 

 ways was to be outside of political in- 

 fluence, but no previous Commissioner 

 had had the temerity to test the 

 strength of that Act. When Mr. John- 

 son arrived he put on the whole ar- 

 mour, clothed himself with the full 



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JUDGE MARY M. BARTELME. 



First Woman Judge of the United States. 



