The Norfolk post. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1865-1866, 1866-01-10

FOREIGN PARAGRAPHS.

FJhEION IA hAGhAfH6.
A singular case Of juvenile suicide oc-
cured ut Berlin lately. A boy ten years
brother, complained to their father of
the injustice with which he had been
treated. To the boys great surprise the
: father declared that the elder was in the
right. This decision SO affected the lad
That he determined to put an end to his
life, and told several of his play fellows
that he would hang himself at a certain
hour. He reseluteiy executed his pur-
pose, and soon after was found hanging.
quite dead, in his bedroom.
Among the Improvements in Ledd0n
Is the building of embankmepts along
certain parts of the river TIsames. Be-
tween HungerfoTd and Waterloo bridges
Il space OF more than. four hundred feet
Of dirty slime wiz he reclaimed from
the river by ep0ankInent. Along this
wide space jtis intended to build a cres-
cent shaped row of fine shops, with II
belt oftrees planted in the centre Of tho
enlbankment.
Japanese fans are of two shapes--one
rather square, stumpy and inelegant;
the other more oval and pear-shaped.
On the first there is almost Invariably
the portrait of lady, arrayed in all the
colors of the rainbow. The pattern and
every minute detail of her dress are
firmly and carefully drawn; but owing
| 10 the absence of shadow it is at first not
easy to distinguish which are the pat
terms and which the outlines of the folds
of drapery.
Lawyers will be interested in case
before the London courts. In giving
] Judgment on question of pleading
lately, Sir James Wylde set aside re-
puted dictum of his predecessor, and
ruled that u testator cannot depute to
another the task of making his will for
him, but he must both know and ap-
prove of the contents of the instrument
10 render 1t valid.
The Peninsulaand Oriental Company's
steamers, independently of The mail ser
vice, now run between Hong Kong and
Nagasaki, in Japan, by way of the Chi.
nese ports Swallow, Annoy, Foo-chow-
Foo and Shanghai, and from Shanghai
direct to Yokohama, in japan. Shang-
hal is four hundred and sixty miles from
Nagasaki and one thousand and forty
miles from Yokohama.
Parricide, one ofthe deepest of Grim es,
is one OF the rarest; yet at tile Liverpool
coroner's court lately an inquest was
held on the body of Patriot O'Brien, a
man fifty years of age, who died from
the effects of injuries inflicted by his
son, Thomas O'Brien, a youth nineteen
years of age. The accused was conn.,
mitted for manslaughter
| Omer Pacha has presented couple of
splendid English pointers, purchased
during his recent visit to England. to
| the Sultan, who is an enthusiastic sports
man and who is so much pleased with
the dogs that he has sent an officer ex-
| pressly TO London to procure several ad-
ditional brace.
| "A well-known thief stole horse coll
lar at Liverpool lately, and being caught
in the act in the street, fell upon his
| knees and burst out into prayer. The
police officer decorously waited few
minutes, but, finding that the prayer
seemed to be interminable, cut it short
by walking his prisoner Off to Jail.
| The Duke of Northumberland has
| gwen TO the government his house and
| grounds on Charing Cross, London for
| a compensation of Else, 200. The build
| ing will DO readily remembered by all
visitors to London from the life size
efigy of a lion which surmounted it.
The town Of Chic, in the island of
Scio, has been almost wholly overtlrown
by an earthquake; the two lighthouses
IN the port only remaining uniriured.
The population flying from the ruins
has encanIped without shelter in the
neighboring fields.
The total number of paupers in Eng
iandand Waleson the lstofJuly was sol :
III, or in y fthe population. On the
lst of July last year the corresponding
number was 9l1 .S77. or the former
number 2S3, 53S were able-bodied persons
exclusive of Migrants
The Earl of Lichfield, i'm considcra.
ton of the bad condition of the grain.
which is in many cases not fit for mar
ket, and other causes which interfere
with the realization of the farmers
profits, has postponed his rent-day for
two months from the usual date.
A servant girl in Brest, France, has
confessed to the murderer three children
by cutting the veins of their necks with
a knife. She declared that sbe was
moved by some irresistible impulse to
the commission of the act.
An English student at Bonn recently
went to the theatre there, and refused
to take his hat off. 1t was removed nv
a German student behind him. when
the Englishman turned and gave the
German blow with a bludgeon, killing
him.
Vitrioi-throwing is in vogue in Lon
don. A young woman threw n tIn,hIar
,uil at the face OF a young man there
iaieiy, burning and disfiguring him in
the NEST frightful manner. "
ne anniversary of the battle ofSipone
was duiy celebrated at Crousfadt R,ie-
s'a, on the 18th of November hast. A
uInner was given to the surviving sail
ors engaged in the battle.
movements is on foot in England for
sTevlving lay orders in the Enol;sb
Snurch, authorizing laymen to serve as
Mineral oil has been discovered Mt
{ Irowbridge, in Wiltshire, England.
Inc oil emits gas which burns rea diiz