The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1870-04-23 00:00:00

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AN ENGLISH LUNATIC AT THE TUILERIES.—
Le Gaul-i's of Tue,clay gives the following account of
an event that happened on the previous day
An E•lrlish ledy of middle-age, who had conceived an in-
tense affecti an for the Emperor Napoleon, came to Paris and
endeav Awed to obtain an interview with him. She met
with numerous obstacles to the gratification of her wiah,
but she hired an apartment on the aecon I story of the Hotel
du Pavia. de Bohan, looking upon the Rue de Rivoli Sonce
she installed herself there she has made Innumerable
attempts to obtain an entrance into the lotteries, bid the
gates were too el-rely kept. On Monday, however, she con-
trived to evade the watchfulness of the gatekeept rs, and
made her way Mtn the private gardens of the Tuilleries,
where she prepare I to await the rooting of the Emperor.
Her hope was frustrated by the officials On ditty, who dis-
covered her unauthorised pre.ence arid marched her (if to
the go ,rd-room attached to the palace. U.on being inter-
rogated she said her name was Louisa Creery, a native of
Delete, and a dascendant rf the Stuarts. Sm added Vat
she hint an Irrepreestele affection towards the Emperor Na-
poleon. The mmr lady was examined by the medical officer.,
and by their direction was rtmove I t a Indians de matt
until her friends, to whom a telegram was despatched, should
arrive to take charge of her.
A DOHRETIC TKAGEDT.—A terrible event h-is
occurred ot the chateau of Durdaht (Seine. Ilif(frieurr),
the property of Cour e de Duvet, who with his wife,
was at Paris at the time. Amongst the domestics
were (Cob named Auto ne ard a toot's an of German
rigin. Between these two men a mipunders mid n;
had ii ng existed, f outs ,me uarxplaini d uause. A few
days ago they had a vio'ent curarrel. ant one
day shortly afterwards, about nine in the eveeinat,
while the c ink was sittiag re -diet; the news-
paper, the other entered, It'd rg a knife in one band
a ten chemb red reyinvor in lir other. antis
"I hiive mane to bow your brains nut," be pulled
Vie trigger. The weep se, howavi r, did not yo off,
and Antoiite, darting under the table, made hia
escape, reaeled his own roam, and locked the
door. His assailant, howeven, followed. aud. hayirg
buret it open, attacked him with the knife, inflictii g
is wound to the stomach. The cook rooted down stairs,
followed by the other, who overtook him in the kitchen,
and stabbed him in the back. A terrible struggle then
ensued, until at last the cook got hold of the pi:tol,
and striliii g his adversary on the head with it, stunned
him. Antoine then rushed out of the house, as all the
other servants had previously done, and passed thenight
with some of the neighbours. When the authorities of
Bolbrc came the next morning to make an examines
tion of the ;dace, they found the footman lying dead
in his own room; he had committed euicide by cutting
his throat with a rszor. The cook's wounds are not
considered dangerous.
THE WARWiCK GUARDIANS AND BOARLING
OCT.—The nyatrm of boarding out pauper children was
cornmenced a 9 an experiment by the Warwick
guatdians three months ago, and the committee of
guardians entrust, it with carrying it out have just re-
ported strongly in its favour. rtiey state that the
results no for have proved highly satisfactory; and they
neon:mend that any orphan or an setter] children still
remaining in the Warwick Union shall be boarded
out am soon as respectable persons can be found to re-
ceive them.
A Pozzt,E !—Major-General P. Anstrutber,
dating from Arith Castle, Falkirk, March 7, 1870,
sends the following curious challenge to mathema-
ticians. He ears :
" From the sill joined proposition may Inc deduce I all the
laws of the science of gunnery. The first mathem at-clan who
will prove that the proposition is not true, may name any
charitable iinstPutton he likes. tool the major general he eby
hinds himself to se tel to its treasurer thirty podeds sterling
'Prop nnition: A cannon hull stiffened to fall freely from a
state of rest will, in any number of 4. collets of tinse, T,
acquire a vol achy V—a certain number of feet per second.
The same ball fired vertic ally upwards, nih initial vet 'cite :
exactly canal to that velocity which it acquired by falling in
the time 'l', will return to the place from whence it rose, at
the expiration or a t toe exactly equal to the time T—having
in exactly half the time, amended to a height exactly equal
to onto-fourth part of the time of flight, in seemed's, multiplied
by the initial vol .city iii feet, or ''ue-fourth of TV. This is
a very pretty Enter egg to crack.'"
Tab TIA TOPER'S lieAD.—A discussion is going
on in the Inillan papers an to the fate of l'antia Tepee's
head, which was cut off aft, his executien for par-
ticipation in the mutiny. The Illojusiilite hue the
following :
Odr Madre, and Mysore contemporaries have been adorn-
ing their cOlumne with Mographicil tkeches of Colonel
aseade, and very pleasant arid instructive reading those
sk,telles Pave been. They one arid all, however, fall to
throw licht its, or even to mention, an incident its the gallant
commßeioner's finnan career which, in the initeeests of cur-
rent history, they should have elucidated. We allude to the
mystery widish still envel -per the fate of the relict Duals
Topee's head! Tautia was hanged shortly attar his capture,
and—lne head was cutoff, and was carried to Etiatlld in a
keg of spirits by—according to the account prevalent at the
time-,Colonei, then Captain, Meade ! Its ultimate fate or
destinatt us we have never been able tin learn. Ix it in the
British Museum, or in either of those at the Universities? Or
has Colon, I Meade, as one of the fetremost am oegst the
arch-rehn l's captors, decided that it shall be an heirloom n
his family
Tom " ALAB.stdA " ChAIMS.—The Washington
correspondent of the New York Teems of April 5 weites
as followis:—
" The State Deportment has advices that the British
Government desires again to direnrs Ike clan...lnnen out of
the A (shares lint 1.11,1 Clarenrl ql would pre. r that
Mr. Vise ,hould propose Vie ferule of settlenne,t, and make
an offer to that ff cct The Secs et:try of State itt of the nisi/don
that better tettes can he agreed upon by wain leg than hy en
immediate action. arid, although amt... that an amicable
arid speedy et nelusiou should be reached in regard to the
present • iff eretices, he prefers to allow matters for the time
being to roman as an open question."
WIDUW ISIARRTAUIL It. Innia.—Moroba Canoba
writers to t'ne editor of the Times of Lida& :--" Dear
Sir,—You can notify to the world iffat Rao Bahadur
Moroba Canoba will be married to a allow of his own
caste on Saturday neat.—Yours faithfully, Moroba
Canoba."

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PLENTY OF THEN.—" In Russian official uk,ses
the Emperor's name is followed by fifty-two titles."
Ntcely arranged; as it allows one for every week in
the year—Pont.
PataCts MURAT AND M. Comm—The High
Court et Tours will not be trou'led with the trial of
Prince Murat for an assault on M. Cmutd. Replying
to a queelil,lll a hireHool to him in the Corps Le.dslatif,
a few Milos sines, AI. Emile 0 livier intimated that
probably the aff sir would be arranged. and it appears
now that such is the case. M. Cmn d has addrened a
letter to the Prime Minister, in which he says that he
never stat.ht to obtain a mean vengeance, and that he
did not iutend to become the citspaw of any party.
"You wish. it is said, to establieh liberty. I desire
not to effer ay impediment to the establishment by
creating mut) trrasaments to your adminintrat ion. Ftr
that reason I declare by the prckent 1., ter that I with-
draw the complaint which I ha I lodged against Prince
Murat, foregoirg all my rights of action against him
on account of the violent acts of which he was guilty
towards me. I pray you, M. In Ministre, not to pro-
ceed with the affair." The Opposition journals make
merry over this letter, and indulge in various specala-
Cons as to the real motive for as sudden an act of for-
giveness, the Loppit wittily, but perhaus unjustly,
suggesting that the plaintiff it a compfe
UNDERWRITERS AlsD TUE " OtTI OF Boston."—
The announcement that the underwriters had in tin-
cite of the City of Boston settled Vie claims as on a
totalloss is premature. The underwriters crily settl
after the vessel has been po,ted at Lloyo's. Tho City
of Boston has not yet been posted. The ships are
posted by the committee of Lloyd's, and appear in
Lloyd's List. This appearance, which takes the form
that the ship sailed from a certain port on a certain
date to another port, and 'has not since been heard

of," is considered, in underwriting circles, equive
to a properly authenticated report of lo ,r,
writers Bettis on the verseL This is done weeki_

is not probable that the City of Boston will be i•

for o,.irne weeks.

A QUAINT BiQUEBT.— In the chorehy.ircl of
St. Bartholomew-the Great, Smithfield, Loudon, one
of the oldest of the City churches, a CUriOtlel caetoin
was okerved on Good Friday, A lady who many
years ago lived in the parish bequeathed propetty for
the formal ion of a fund for preaching a sermon every
Cod Frioloy, aud for the giving twenty-five pine
widows of the perish 61 every year for ever. With re-
gard to the latter bequest, she made the singular stipu-
lation that the sixpences should be taken by the re-
cipients horn her grave, and those who were by age too
stiff in their Oohs to do this were not to have the
n,oxey, Toe ceremony took place under the direction
of toe rec'or, the Roy. John Aiddss, l. A., who
preached the sermon, and who has held the living
since 1815, the rev, gentleman being now 84 years of
age.
Toe SWEETS or OFFICS.—The Sugar Duties.—
Punch.

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A VERY CLEAR EXPLANATION ! The following
has been refetrrd to the clear head of Lord Dundreary,
as it has be. n found rather confusing to the Oxford
Dons it Imo been submitted to. The goestion was put
to a little Dutch b "I-lanes," the offspring of the
Seat marriage of the gentleman at Sc. James's Tneatre
who has lost his little dog:—" Hans, where were you
born ? ' "On the Hold°, barrick." "What, always?'
"Yaw, and before, too." " HOW old are you, then?'
"When the old schoolhouse ish built, I was two weeks
more nor a year, what is painted red as you go home
mit your back behind you, on the right-hand bide, by
the old blacksmith shop, what stands where it was
burnt down next year will pe two wbeks."
A PLEASANT POSITION !-It seems to be the
fashion in Paris to talk of small-pox as the reigning
epidemic, though the statistics of the pnblio health do
not :la :w any reason for alarm. However that may
be. a French paoer relates a most heartless advantage
taken of no sufferer from this shocking disease. H.
de C., suffering from small-pox, was lying well covered
over by three blankets, and an eiderdown quilt by the
express orders of his doctor, it being moot desirable to
produce a violent action of the skin. The result was
obtained and all going on well, when in came a
respectably dressed individual, who, with the greatest
politeness, thus addressed the sick man :

"Sir, pray do not move; I know the leant exertion nrould
he tit"al to yon ; tell me quickly where your money and
jewels are" "What, wretch my Jewels and mosey?'
"Do not move; you am a surely aware how dat gerons an
illness thin is " . . . . "Go out, or I shall call for
help." You will not, for If you do I shall throw the window
wide open; a draught of air will kill you, or, at all events,
disrlgure you considerably. Ah ! here is your watch. That's
right. Now 3 our money." " Rascal ! " "Don't stir, or
beware ot the open window! Come, where is this dense? '
"Is. that desk," murmured the poor invalid. Very well,
you are ream:amble. I ehould be sorry to increase the danger
of your state. I wish you a speedy recovery, and so take my
leave."

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At E,011.M0138 DOCTOR'd BILL.—Mr. Charlton,
of North Shields, is the owner of several vessels which
trade to the PeninAilar ports, and one of hi, captains
lately had the ill-luck to fall sick at Carthagena. A
doctor was called in and the sick captain was physicked
and bled to his heart's content, and on his recovery
the doctor sent in his little hill to Mr. Chaikon, the
owner of the vessel. For attendance upon the invalid
hile in the ship and fifteen days ashore at lodgings,
the Spanish medical man charges £BOO, with £5O for
his assistant; £l5O is charged for the fifteen days'
lodgings and the whole amount for attendance on the
sick captain is 1:1„000. .

A "Tam." CALCULATION.—An American " cal-
culates " that the simple interest of a halfpenny at 6
per cent, since the birth of Corist would give
11,178,120 dollars, but that at compound interest is
wand come to gold enough to make 84,840,000,000,000
globes as large as the earth, and that, divided among
is thousand millions of people, it would give to each
81 840 !4 these globes. And if all these globes were
placed in a straight line, it would take a cannon that,
travelling at the rate of about a mile a second, millions
of years to pass them.
THE SUN CONVALESCENT ! On Friday after-
noon (ihe 11th) a careful scrutiny with a powerful
telescope elicited the chcumstance that there were then
only four small spots distinctly visible on the face of
the ann. The serious blotch on the left cheek was
disappearing, and on Sunday it was not to he seen.
St.VERAL MASONS FOR TARP% G A HOLIDAY !
A Radical member of the North Gel man Parliament,
Herr Rebel, explains to his constitusisets in a charac.
terietic letter the reason of his having taken a holiday.
He says :
To!morraw I leave Berlin for the present. . . . To stop
here is a mere waste of time and money. Since the begin-
ning a the session I hove not liad • single 01.1,11 tunity of
stesking, and am hardly booty to love ore before Enter
I have no inclination to atk p, rmission to tpeak about
trifles—that is the business of the other p irties. Resides,
the sittings are so badly attend, d, and the proceedings no
slovenly, that the members are peneti ated with a sense of
their utter Insignificance. Often there are miry more of
them to he Liund in the restaurant and the. reading room
. .

thiln in the Chamber. . . I will return only for the third
reading el the criminal Code, wli,n a number of important
donna will input to the vote, bud an oppori unity will pro-
bably be given for treating the matter from our point of view.

FOR SOMERSET HOUSE.—A nice question arises
with reference to the proposed tax upon tire-arms.
Will little boys who bl..n away, when hird.tetitiug,
with powder only, have to pay their shot ?—Punch.
Wirt MURDER IN GREi•NoCK.— On Saturday
morning a woman named Rose M 'Clean died in Greenock
Hospi•al from the effects of ki ks and blows received
from her husband, Archibald M'Clenn, a sailmaker. a
few dayrags. Tae poor worn in was (nceinte a', the
time the ontrage was committed. Oa being t id of
the death of his wife, At'Clran coolly said it was a pity
that she Via. 9 dead.
UNIToD STATES PUBLIC SCHOOLS.—The New
York Times says:—

Slr. Forster, 51 P., has fallen into a ssrious error in regard
ta educational elixirs in this country. In a deb to in the
House of Commons on the lath of March, he touched upon
the question of el:ending the Bible from schools and said,—
"There are COlintrit 8 in which the Bible is excluded;
believe it is excluded in America at the present moment."
There is no part of the United States, we may inform Mr.
Forster In which the Bible is excluded from the schoo;s.
The attempt was made to prohibit the reading of it In
Cincinnati, but it failed.

A SPANISH RECREATION.—During Holy Week
at Seville a thblical drama was performed on a scale of
great magnificence. A contributor to The T 4 nus, after
n itiang other partiens of the play, goes on to Pay :

Great importance is attached to the suicide of Judas
Inc snot, An elaborate set-scene, with a inovalile cataract,
which, perhaps, to Spanish eyes seems an accurate imita.
Von of real water, is provided fur the occasion, slid over
this inclines the tree whereon the despairing traitor hen:,
himself in the presence of the audience. The seh eted
branch breaks, Judas falls into the water, the stage becomes
illumined a ilk red tire, ancla numherof olevils, very like those
who carry elf n Giovanni, fal,ce air at to ex;ress their sat is-
f cion. The sub: huity of the awful scene is somewhat mar, d
by the clr.urnstinice that the curtain no sooner hence, d,
than it rises again in order the, Judas nay bow Ida ackno
le laments to a highly appreciative nubile. On the e,
when I sni'nesn, d the performance, he wee the only person
who was thus specially honoured. His. part, Jude, d, ift for
an actor, the best in the piece, and was exceedirgly well
played with,! grieve to add, something like a sense of comic
humour. A mod faith of the Termitian Ii cat or Gets, as re-
presented by a very clever •' Wrat mi aster," seemed to infuse
it,elf into the character of tie Scrip, ural traitor, nod the
brutal independence which marked his whole career, and
which contra=ted stew ply with the reverence of his fellow
disciple, is evidently intended to be amusing. All this in
very horrible, but—so it is.

LOOK! 0 GIFT HORSES IN THE Mon.'s.—
General Prim has presented Napoleon with a gift of
twenty thousand cigars with gilt ends. Toe present
would seem to be symbolical of something that ends in
smoke and with gold for ita end. Prini's friendship or
Napoleon'', ? Spanish prefessions, or French policy?
Napoleon reciprocates the gift with a pair of China
vases. British bondholders will be apt to say that
these resist he types of Spanish promises to pay—they
are so easily broken.—Punch.
DISCOVERY OF RYMAN REMAINS IN 8,.1.G1UM.
—The Bel.risn journals state that some Roman re.
mains have just been discovered in digging the founda-
(ions for a bridge over the Meuse, at Omtret. The
oaken piles of a similar structure, erected by Julius
Creaar during the conquest of Gaul, were brought to
light, in a perfect state of preservation. Vestiges of
the road on both sides of the river are besides freeplently
seen. Between two of the piles were also found a
quantity of Roman coins, bearing the etfi ties of the
Emperors Trajsn, Vespasion, Adrian, Antonin° Pius
and his consort Fanstine ; they are allot about the size
of a five-franc piece, and well preserved.
MATRIMoNIat CdARCES. (From the Man-
chester Exuntner):—
" A bachelor, of 40, who has tray, lied, and who has posi-
tion and em at independence, desires to settle with a family.
—Address," etc.
"A gentlemen, 29, wishes to meet with an amiable lady,
with a view to a speedy marriage. A good income desirable.
Age of little briportance.—Address,“
" Respectable gentleman, age 29, of position, with a few
hundred pounds, wishing to conunence us, is desirous
if meeting with an amisige younglady, with similar means.
Eo applicants need reply except ill c intidence.—Addresa,"&c
" Wanted, by a widower lima flde), a well brought-sip and
educated young lady or nlow, b .tween 24 a, d SO, to take
ch,rge ot his sinall establishment aua family, with A view
to matrlinony.—Address,"
"A gentleman, 29, with gory, private Income, home, and
husiness, wishes to correspond with a domesticated young
lady, wish a view to marriage. Strictest confidence will be
obssrved —Address, with own name,' At,
"To ladies.—A gentleman of position, in the prime of life,
Is desirous of meeting with a lady in similar circumstances
with a view el marri Igo; the Continent, if agreealge would
be their chief residence: the strictest privacy may be relied
on ; cartes exchanged before an interview.—Address," dm.
A BLVERAGE WITH RATTIER Too Mc cEI
"BODY !"—A startling discovery was made last week
at the Waterford Workhouse. Some workmen re-
pairing the pump, which had for some time been out
of order, discovered a large black-looking lump at the
entrance of the tube from which the water fl sass, and
011 01113 of them g sing down to remove it ha was lanai.
fled to find that it wise the bnly of a child greatly de-
comgored. The obstruction to the water aupply has
been noticed for the past fortnight, and as the
guardians are nearly all teetotallera and wont to drink
he tr, ily from this crystalsprieg while discharging their
duties at the hoard they have clearly been enjoying a
beverage which had much more " body" in it than
they were aware of or desired.
How Ta EVADE HANGING !—A surgeon of
Aberdeen writes to The Times
With refers oce to the murderer Ratterford, recently re-
prieved Is, calise of a cicatrix on his neck, which has teen
eighty considered an Insurmountable obstacle to his being
Ivinge )our nu:heroin correspondents on the subject,
several of whom Think it a good opportunity for abolishing
death by hanging, have overlooked by far the most Important
' argument in their favour,—viz , that any murderer can pro-
, duce a similar deformity in a few days, by simply glirasing
the nosier surface of the chin and a small patch of the skin
In front of the neck, keening the abrased surfaces in c intact
for a low days, or until sdhmions have formed, when an
amount of deformity may be produced sufli.deut to prevent
au man so deformed being hanged.
FILTERUCO RIVER WATER. —The humblest accl
1 the poorest of the population possess two very efficient
means for re di rin4 water comparatively hue if th y
would only take the tronld, to use them (remarks the
Engineer). They can all filter and boil the water they
draw from the river, the well, or the pipe. By the
farmer, all impurities and foreign substances held in
mechanical sumpension will be arrested and separated,
and the latter will remove several of the chemi,4l in.

y • large portion of those which
Lt is t• limed temporary hardness.
,rot I't forward sa an eXelleo or paths.
. ,r the ahlminable state into which our Fie. rs end
.exesms havelwen allowed to fall, hut simply to point
out that, until legislation steps in to the rescue, ei evy
has it in his power to partially nullify the evils of
wholesale water pollution.

SFr Crhtqf OF TAP: FIRF-FLT.—The spectrum
civet by the lixht II the cionmon fire fly of New
Hampshire is, according to Mr. 'Young's observations,
perfectly continuous, without trace of lines, either bright
or dark. It extends from a little above Fraunhofer's
line C in the scarlet to about F in the blue, gradually
fading out at the extremities. It is precistils the per.
tion of ilia spectrum I hot is composed of rays which,
while they more powerfully than any other affect the
organs of viaion, produce hardly any thsrmol or actinic
effect. V,ry little, in fact, of the energy expended
in the floeh of the fire fly is wasted. It is quite different
with our artificial In an ordinsry gas light, it
is proved that not more than one or two per cent. of the
radiant energy COI slots t.f visilile rays, the rest is eith,r
inisible heat or actildera ; is other words, more than
93 per crot of the gas is wasted in producing rays that
do tan help in making objects tibibio.

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Tox M •RIJAI3I4I. CASN.—Itt reference to the
great case .1 " Mordaunt v. Mw Isnot, C .le, and
doh..smne," public imerest Bvelnv I kely to be balked
for th, preAeut. It will be reitiemb,rett that an order
to stay pr credinge was mate by Lord Pear once by
consent of parties with the view of trying the question
whether insanity shoul I be • bar to a petition for
divorce, and it was expected that the appeal from this
order, entered on behalf of the petitioner, would be
argued before the full Court in the Lonnie of the next
bittings. There are, however, no appeal causes set
down for hearing in the new list, and it appears that
within the last few days notice to prolong the tom of
summons has been tiled on the part of the respondent,
which has thrown the casa over to Easter sessions of
the Coutt.

MAKING A NEW Nosm FOR A MAN.—The ease
of Mr. O'Connor, of King's County, whose noels was
cut off some weeks ego by a baud 01 ruffians, excited
attention men in a land of outrages by its exceptional
atrocity. The as quel of the story, however, is very
different from the beginning. Mr. O'Connor's mutila-
tion has led to one of the greatest surgical feats ever
accomplished. A new nose, fashioned out of his own
flesh, has been fitted upon him with admirable success.
An incisi* was made in this forehead, and a portii in of
the living flesh skilfully drawn down, fashioned into
the proper form whilst still warm and plastic, and fitted
to the siturnp of the mutilated feature. Ow skin being
artistically drawn over the scar. Mr. O'Connor will be
but slightly dafigured—iudeed, Me friends say that the
new nose looks better than the old one.

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THE PRI SSIAN NEEDLE•GUN.-- A contributor to
the Allymeine Milicar-Zatung writes :
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As you know, two improved mrdels of the needle-eon
are on trial, which both aim at increasing the rapidity of firing
with as little waste as possible. In m tlftenu to twenty
shots may be fired by them in a minute, 10th it the appre-
hensions of those may be quieted who are alarmed as soon as
they hear another arm cult load more quickly than ours. I
and many others are incline-I to shrug mir shoulders when we
hear the nonsense virreut on this subject. All who have
any experience know that two or pumps tree,
shots are the most we own obits's] from infantry in the field.'

SHOCK !NO SITICIDE IN Pe 1216.—A well-dressEd
man on Saturlay aseendi-d to the top of the c &nun
at the Place de la Bastile, an I, on arriving there,
without a moment's delay threw himrelf over the
railing above. The body was dreadfully disfigured by
the fall and dtath iiirtantaneous. Papers in his
pocket declared him to be M. Leon M -ge, a clerk.
The deceased, who was Only 40 rats of are, had heeu
attacked with typhus fever some time back, and since
then his brain has been somewhat affected.

MULES FUR THIS N CRBERY. —The world is
getting on. The very babes, in France, have their
fagbiun-book. There is a monthly publication btyled
"La Toilettedes EVans."—Pt NCH.

PUTTING IT TO THE TEeT.—The legislature of
the State of Orli° is about to try an experiment, it
appears, the result of which it will be very intereeting
and instructive to watch. To meet the argument that
women do not care for the suffrage, and that the whole
agitation on the subject is got up by a few strong-
minded ladies, the a ivocates of woman suffrage in that
State have brought ma bill to test the point in dispute
by the vote of the women of Ohio themselves. It is
said that the bill will pass. It provides for an ennmera-
thrn and regir tration of all the women in the State of
twenty-one years of age and upwards, who shall have
resided in the State one year on the ecc .ml Tuesday of
next October. Separate polling-places and ballot-boxes
are to be pros i lei at the usual riaces of holdirg elec-
tions, having the usual number of qualified officers, at
which all women registered as required by the above
provision may vote one of two tickets. "Female
suffrage: Yea" "Female Suffrage: No." The votes
are to be returned in the urinal way to the Secretary of
State ; and, if it shall appear that a maj in itv of the
whole number of votes cast are for female suffrage in
Ohio, then '• the General Assembly shall, at its ad-
jourr ed session, submit in due form the question of
female suffrage to the electora of the State on the
second Tuesday of October, 1872."
AN UNWORTHY PRIRST.—The Tribunal Cor-
rectionnel of Bordeaux last week pronounced sentence
upon a priest who, by his unseemly c induct, has
brought- discredit upon the sacred profession. The
accused was a Scotchman, named John Gall, forty-
seven years of age, born at Aberdeen. In 1848 he was
ordained a priest in Paris, having previously preened
his theological studies at St. Sulpice. On the 18th of
March the Bordeaux police found the accused dressed
in his ecclesiastical gash helplessly drunk on the quay,
and he was induced to retire to an inn, aid the same
arternoon the Vicar-General of the diocese sect a
written prohthitlon 'spinet his ex. reisiog any eccle-
siastical fnuctious, arid enderieg him to ab trid,n the
clerical dress which he hail di-graced. On the evenirg
of the next day, however, he wee again found in a wine
shop in a etate of intoxication. and a c slice of public
sea:vial. The Vicar-General then appLed to the Pr o-
cureur-Imp&ial to prosecute Gall for illegally wearing
an ecclesiastical costume after formal probibP
Proceedings were ace rrelingly commenced, and after
hearing evidence, the Court sentenced the accused to
six months' innpris,ment upon the eround stated.
Tog POPE WAFTIING THE PILGRIMS' FsET.—A
correspondent at Rome, who went to St. Peter's on
Thursday in Holy Week, writ, a respecting the usual
reception of poor pilgrims by the Pope :

The waiting at the table of the pilgrims was done, as usual,
In the hall of the portico : FO this I MO' not, end c in only say
what I herd. A long table woo spread, and very taidily
adorned with vases of ft iwer,—much, I alo.ulal think, as in a
London dinner party. The pilgrims were placed along it, and
had something given them, nobody could say what, and
rqually ioserOtabla was the amount of the Pope's service.
Tire squeezing was terrific ()mot my informants Saw spriest
carried out insensible by two Z -naves ; but on the other hand,
a lady, whose Links a ould win her way, rep dis that ehe
got a good Witt of the Pope and the table and was present, it
with lie of the ft .w, Ti. lhe Pope returned to the emir, and
a•nn did the feet washing There kat on a bench rimed
above the beads of the as embled Bishops twelve men in
large. !owe fitting, wht,titi garments, with very tall caps .
the rime hue. The Ppa came to them, well supported by
eariiiials, and supplied with water and towels from the
di eisieg.table, which I had thought a sideboard. All one
could see was a wonderful quantity of bowing and kiwring.
Wherever the Pope's hand went, a head bent down to kiss it
Teol say that hr really does throw some drop, of water on
ir feet, and rub thrill off with sin pkin. The poor men,
fits said, are priest. who ask the honour.
CAPITAL PO NISHM to,—The Pall Mall Gazette
sale that 711. Ch. Lucas, of the Paris Inetitute, having
forwarded to Coent Bietnarck a copy of an article he
inten led to publish in favour of the abolition of death
punishment, has received from the German staweeman
a reply to the effect that his opinion on the eubject is
uncharged. "Even in the future," says the North
German Ambassador at Paris, writing in the name of
the Chancellor, "he (Count Biemarck) cannot respond
to the anticipation expreeeed at the end of your letter.
He will remain the irreconcilable enemy of the abolition
of capital punishment."
A STRANOK STORT.—A Fifeshire correspordent
sends to the Edinburgh Courant the following etery :
Recently a fanner reciting in the East Neuk placed a
sovereign in his mouth to keep it separate from some silver
coins which he was paying away, and by accident the golden
piece vanished down his throat For Ratio time mini h in-
convenience was experienced in his breathings, and on Tues-
day evening list, being in E Imburgh, he went in co ninny
with a friend to the Iheatre Hos al, and in appreciation of
Mr. Sahern's representation of Lord Dundreary he laughed
heartily, and thereafter was seizal with a violent fit of
coughing, when he expectorated the long-font g Id coin, the
sight of which caused no inconsiderable amount of joy, and
he again breathes freely after its ejectment.
THE lacorct-Ts x.—The change now to be
made in the rate of incouce-tax is the fourteenth
alteration in the last 1.7 years. When Sir R. Peel
introduced the income-tax of our day in 1842 be fixed
it at mi. in the pound ; and that rate was paid until
1874, vnhen it was elou'.led in consequence of the war
With Russia, and in 18:s5 it was further raised to 16.1.
The war being ended, the rate was reduced again to
7d. in 1817. fin 1858 it was reduced to sd.' in 1859
raised to 91., in 1860 to lat., in 1861 rednced to 9d.,
in 1863 to 7d in 1864 to 61., in 1865 to 41., in 1867
raised toll, in 1868 to fit., in 1869 reduced to 51.,
and in 1871) to 41, or the 60th part of every sovereign.
A FAITHFUL Ttomt.—An amusing scene oc-
curred the other day at the citadel of Dever. The
Mud Regiment have a very tine tiger just come to
thin country with the regiment from India He is very
tame, and is daily taken for a walk, and he also goes
round the mess table getting tit.hits. The other day
his keeper got the woree for drink, and made his way
to the den, fearing detection. An officer seeing that
the man lay asleep, and the tiger sitting by him, sent
for the picket, who at any other time can do what
they pleate with the beast. The moment they at-
tempted to go near the keeper the tiger growled, and
very soon let them see they must keep off. For two
hours the tiger kept guard over his keeper, who, on
awakening, was eurprised to see Le one dared come
near his charge.
ANONYMOUS CHARITY.- -A few months back an
unknown g intleman left at Messrs. Iloare'e bank, in
London, a Bank of Enalmi LOO, vane £1.600, with
a requeet that it uffglit be placed at the credit of the
London Fever Hospital, under the initials 0(1, 11, W.
Some days back Inc left a eimilar amount at Messrs.
Dimsdale and Co.'s i,ak for the same inalitution.
FRO 2 it te TO DkATll.—The Blue Earth City
(Minne,ota) Post of the 16th of March gives the sic.
count of the death of the wife and three children of
Mr. Bates, if Seely, BlueEtrth County. Mr. Bates's
residence Was on the prairie, some distance from any
(AM r habitat:on ; arid during the prevalence of a fierce
Worm the honae took tire, and was burnt to the grimed.
Mr. Bate, started off for assistance, bat before he
could get back his wife and children were frozen to
death. Toe Rime paper reports the freezlng to death,
in the same storm, of two brothers living at lake Bell,
Minnesota, and of a German and four other men in
the State of lowa.
Tnuit B !TS D aow sED NEAR PERTH.-0a
Monday, three boys, between eight ant twelve years of
age, were drowned in the Tay, near Perth. It appears
that fine boys were in a hired boat, and when passing
through the bridge of Perth, an accident occurred by
which one of the oars was displaced, and the boat
turned on its broadeide to the current, This alarmed
the boys, who rushing to one side, capaizeii the boat,
and all were thrown into the water. The accident was
observed from the ehore and two of the boys were
oeistehueelotherUtphretoealadlastehtdoinrottht; nesumreectuogyh the
eret
d. bodies