The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-05-14
GENERALITIES.
A Chlld with a Horses Head.

poor German couple residing on North
William street, between Meeker avenue and
Herbert street, Williamsburg, have female
infant, which was born on the Sd of April last,
whose face and head is strangely deformed.
The lower portion of the face resembles that of
horse, and the whole front portion of the upper
Jaw is wanting, and the nasal bone and cartilage
are extended down over the lower jaw, making
two large nostrils, which connect without divi-
sion with the mouth, thus making but one large
orifce in the face The tongue is long and
formation of the interior being exactly like that
of horse. The child Is unable to take natural
nourishment and is fed by hand. 1t eats vora-
ciously, and devours as much as four ordinary
The child's mother is thirty-four years of age,
and this is her first child. A large number of
persons have visited the family. The child is
sickly and will not live long.
Singular Murder Trial.
A proceeding in a murder trial in San Fran
cisco attracts attention, not so much because OF
its importance In the particular case as on ac-
count of the possibility 1t indicates that judges
occasion to entirely defeat the object of the law
James DWyer was tried for killing Diedrich
Wohlers. The trial lasted four days. Five hours
after its conclusion the jury reported their dsa-
the judge, whichhe declined to give. They saw
no possibility of agreement with the informa-
ton they possessed, and he discharged them.
If judge can discharge jury that disagrees
mony of four days trial, why could he not
within one hour, or, for that matter, within ten
minutes, ''with the thanks of the Court?" II
not why not?
SeIf-HIurder with all the Modern Improve.
ments.
AS some of the men employed in the car and
repair shops of the Harlem Railroad Company
at Central Morrisania were proceeding to theii
work early yesterday morning, they found the
body of an unknown man suspended to tree
in the woods near by. The deceased appeared
to be a German about twenty-eight years old
and had evidently repaired to the spot full,
prepared to carry out his design OF selt-destruc
tion. He had provided himself with plenty o
ropes, portion of which he adjusted with slip
noOses for his hands, while another piece wa
arranged with a slip-noose for his neck. Wit
these he aecended tree, fastened one end o
the long rope to a limb of the tree, and adjuste
the other around his neck he slipped his hand
through the nooses of the other rope benin
him, and thus made his fatal leap.
California for Consnmpttves.
The California coast may yet be selected /
preference to any other part OF the world as
resort for consumptiyes, the more southern POI
ton of that State surprising in respect to tn
two essentials-equable temperature and dr.
air-the Riviera or the Island OF Madeira. Th
extremes of temperature In January and Jul,
and the rainfall In the three localities, are thu
stated:-Mentone, 40 and 70 degrees temper
ture. with % inches rainfall; Funchal, go and Z
degrees, with 80 inches; San Diego, 81 and
degrees, with only 10 inches rainfall III the
facts can be generally made known, and the \
ference as TO the suitableness OF the climate
correct that which is worth TO invaiids mo-
than all her gold may be found on our Pacli
shore.