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four miles of wire . Tho idea of the crystal medium was suggested by Mr . Hollingshoad . The corps de ballet has been strengthened for this production . Signorina Legnani will act as the Princess , and a new danseuse from Milan , Signoriua Pollini , has been engaged to represent tbe Spirit of the Lamp . Mr . Fred Storey ( from the

Gaiety theatre ) has been specially engaged for the grotesque part of the Magician , and Aladdin will be represented by Mdlle Marie . The whole will be produced under tho general direotiou of Mr . John Hollingshead , and the stage management of Mr . A . G . Forde . " Aladdin" will be performed ( for the first time ) on Monday , 19 th December .

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OUR FAMILY TREE .

THERE is no doubt the principles on which Freemasonry is based are most admirable , that those principles have been most successfully carried out in all ages and countries , and that they aro capable of still further development in tbe future . But nothing is so

calculated to mar the beauty of those principles ^ the attempts which are contiryaaHy being made to associate every distinguished man that ever Jived , and every noteworthy event that has ever happened since the world was created , with Freemasonry . We have seen it gravely stated

that Adam was a Mason , though the native modesty of the writer induced him to refrain from any attempt at solving the knotty question whether our worthy first parent was initiated before or after he took to wearing an apron of fig-leaves . Noah , the first naval architect , not " arkitect , " haa

been set down as a Mason . The Patriarchs , we believe , are supposed to have been Craftsmen . The two Saints . John were Grand Masters , though we have never heard any sufficient reason assigned for the supposition . Euclid was a learned geometrican , and therefore he must have been a Freemason .

Pythagoras , who is said to have been , in reality , the author of the famous forty-seventh proposition of the first book of Euclid , was also one of us , —very probably a Past Master of the Craft , as the figure of the said proposition plays a very prominent part in the jewels

of Past Masters . A host of celebrities of every age and race are claimed as members of our fraternity . The great reformer , Martin Luther , has been said to have been initiated into our mysteries a short time after he had burnt the Pope ' s Bull of Excommunication .

The most worthy absentee from the roll of worthies is the great Julius Caesar . "We do not remember ever to have seen him described as a Brother by any trustworthy Mason . Possibly , some imperfection disqualified him from participating in the benefits of initiation . Some day this

omission may be rectified , or , perchance , in the lapse of time , some brother , more remarkable for bis ambition to be enrolled among our Masonic historians , than for the profundity of his wisdom and discretion , may seek to counteract it by the insertion of other distinguished personages—say ,

for instance , Jonah , or the " Last of the Mohicans . " Passing from personages to events , we find the bnilding of the Tower of Babel included as marking one of the earliest epochs in history ; but whether or not tbe first stone was laid with Masonic ceremonial we have never heard .

Happily , we are gradually becoming wiser in our generation , and brethren no longer make themselves conspicuous by such exhibitions of ignorance as we have been describing . Still there is even now a great deal of what may be called " sermonising" connected with the Craft , which

will convince our readers that the statement is not without some justification . Be it well understood , however , that we have no idea of speaking irreverently of any persons

who have been mentioned by name . We are merely desirous of showing how Masonry is affected by the absurd lengths to which such writers go when they give way to their imagination . —Chronicle ( Sydney ) .

We are sorry to hear that Bro . J . E . Shand P . M . met with a serious accident , by being knocked down by a bansom cab whilst alighting from a tram car in motion ,

close to his own house in Camden Town , N . W . We are glad to hear that he is progressing satisfactorily , but it will be some weeks before he can attend to any business . Bro . Shand desires to thank all callers fcr kind inquiries .

A Masonic funeral service , ia memory of ; he -ate Bro . W . P . Allen , will be beld on Sunday , 11 th inst ., in tbe Victoria Hal ) , Walthamstow , when the Ven . Archdeacon C . G . Dunbar , D . D ., will officiate . The service will commence at . 3 p . m . Brethren are requested to assemble iu the ante-room at 2 p . m .

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