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NOTES. There are advanced people in North Dakota, and they must be fully represented in the State Legislature. It was reported, a short time since, that the North Dakota Senate had passed a bill which provides that applicants for marriage li censes in that State shall be examined as to their health, and that licenses shall be denied to per sons who shall be found to be suffering from va rious diseases, including dipsomania, hereditary insanity, and tuberculosis. The responsibility of passing upon applicants would rest upon a com mittee of three physicians in each county, ap pointed by a judge. In Australia a motion for a parliamentary committee to examine "Cresswell," the new Tichborne claimant, has been lost by one vote. Cresswell has been an inmate of the Parramatta lunatic asylum for many years, and recently yielded to the appeals of his friends and pro nounced himself to be the real Sir Roger. One strange feature of the case is this : The Cress well estate, to which it is practically admitted the man is entitled, adjoins the Tichborne estate, and the Parramatta authorities have announced their intention of descending upon it to recoup themselves for keeping the ex-lunatic during all the years he has been in their asylum. There is one country in the world, and prob ably, only one, which gets along with a single policeman : that is Iceland. Iceland is peopled by the descendants of Vikings, including many famous warriors and heroes, but they are so lawabiding that they have no need of policemen. The solitary officer, in spite of his great respon sibility, has a very easy time. He is maintained more for ornament and dignity than for use. The Icelanders think it would not do to have a capital without a policeman, and so they keep one. This police force is large in one sense. Its member is six feet high, broad-shouldered, and handsomely uniformed. 241