I believe that because of its weight the present First Lord of the Admiralty avers that it is no anchor at all, but a buoy fixture.

It might have been ten times as heavy, and yet not have availed to keep James from getting to sea at that particular time.
BARON'S COURT, _Friday, Feb.

10._--Here also, in County Tyrone, the Irish women show their skill in women's work.

Mrs.Dixon, the English wife of the house-steward of Baron's Court, has charge of a woollen industry founded here, after a discourse on thrift, delivered at a temperance meeting of the people by the then Marquis of Hamilton, had stirred the country up to consider whether the peasant women might not possibly find some better and more profitable way of passing their winter evenings than in sitting huddled around a peat fire with their elbows on their knees, gossiping about their neighbours.

Lord Hamilton cited the women of Gweedore as proofs that such a way might by searching be found.
The Duke and Duchess found the funds, the stewardess invested them in buying the necessary yarn and knitting-needles, and the Marchioness of Hamilton acted as corresponding clerk and business agent of the new industry.