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HOME AND FOREIGN GOSSIP.

corn-krife from under his blouse and in
stantly killed the gambler.
AN ingenious chap has invented an
artificial honeycomb which relieves the
bees of much work He hopes TO pro-
vide them with neckyokes and buckets
for carrying home honey.
EIGHT masked robbers stopped a rail
road train in the West the other day
As the train contained an excursion of
editors, the only loss was loss of the
time to the robbers.
FORNEY's Progress says there are
women who make a business of going
from watering place to watering-place, lat
the close of the season, and buying at
less than half-cost the cast off clothing
of the bellies of society. This they take
to the great cities and easily sell at q
good profit.
The Germans have a very simple test
for watered milk-dip well polished
knitting-needle into a deep vessel of al
legged milk and withdraw it Immediately
in an upright position. If the fuid is pure
some will hang to the needle; not so if
the slightest quantity of water has been
added
A GERMAN medical writer, in a work
published in 1871, says there are but
two authentic cases known of five chill
dren being born at one birth. A third
case is now reported from Ketting on
the Rhine. The children were well
formed, though very small; but they
lived only one hour.
A wELL-DRESSED woman drew q
crowd together in Cincinnati street by
foo
times with whip, and then finishing
the punishment with her fists. She
coollv explained that he was her runa-
way husband, whom she had laboriously
traced for the sole purpose of whipping
him.
A GERMAN family named Herbold,
and living in Louisville, have just been
informed that by the death of an uncle
in Austria they are sole heirs to $4,000
600. There are seven HerbOlds, SIX
brothers and one sister, one OF the
former being barber, and the five
others bakers. One of them, a few
months ago, attempted suicide ON ac-
count of poverty.
THE California Theater has live
English aristocrat as its leading actress,
Adelaide Stanhope, only daughter of
the late Rev. Henry Stanhope, and
granddaughter of the Earl of Harring
ton, her father being the third son of
that nobleman. She is, therefore, the
first cousin to the present Earl. One of
her aunts was married to the Duke of
Bedford, and another was married to
the Duke of Leinster.
GEORGE IBER, a brakeman on the
Collinsville branch of the Canal Rail
road, in Connecticut, is regarded as the
strongest man in that State. He can
lift a heavy freighting truck simply by
taking hold of the handles. and is said
to have lifted twelve hundred pounds.
Since he has been on the road he has
broken three brake-chains, and when he
puts on a brake two men can with diff
Guilty loosen it.
SEEING servant rushing out of 4
London house for medical aid, rascal
said: Z" am a DOCTOR" and obtained
access to the room of a sick child. He
feigued to minister to him for hours,
read prayers by his bedside, and then,
descending into the dining room and
taking advantage of the carelessness
wrought by the approach of death, took
q good meal, and decamped with all the
portable property he could lay his hands
on
AT a large public funeral of a promi-
nent citizen of Delhi, \. Y, the other
Sunday, the mourners were dressed in
white, instead of the customary black.
This was done in approval of the wishes
of the deceased, who, while living,
strongly opposed the inevitable heavy
and expensive mourning and re-
quested them to dress in simple white at
his funeral, especially if they believed
him to have entered a happier world.
= THE wife of a banished French Com
munist was overjoyed at the news of his
pardon, and went to the railroad sta
ton. with her children, at the proper
time, to welcome him. But he had been
very i'll for years, and was 50 much al
tered i'm appearance that she did not
recognize him. She went home in a
Respondent mood, while he hunted in
vain for her in the crowd. AT last he
found her residence; but she had COM
mitted suicide, after writing a despair
ING letter.
AN instance of heredity in crime is
furnished by Elias Phillips of Freetown,
Mass. who recently appeared rs a wit
ness in burglary trial, having turned
States evidence. He is a great-grand-
son of Malbone Briggs, q notorious
criminal, who was in State prison with
seven of his sons at one time. Briggs :
ancestry is traced back to a noted pirate
in the time of Earl Bellamont, and his
branch of the family has for over a cen
turv furnished noted criminals in every
generation.
FROLOFF, the eXecutioner, does the
business of hanging for the whole Rus
sian Empire His residence is in the
central State-prison at Moscow, and
he is ordered to 90 wherever his services
are required. All the executions in
Russia this year were the work OF his
hands. In St. Petersburg he has hanged
Dubrovine and Solovieff IN kieff, Brandt
ner, OssinSki, Antonoff unknown
Bilcnansky, Gorsky, and FedOroff Gun
known in Odessa. Lukianoff, Chubar-
off, Lizogub, and DavidenkO; in Nike
laieff, Nuremberg and LogoyenkO. This
makes fourteen victims in eight months,
and who knows how many there will be
in the remaining months Of this year?
VISITORS to the Scarborough eng
land) aquariums were treated to a Strug-
gle between a man and large devil
fish. The keeper, while cleaning out
the tank occupied by the octopods, was
seized by the largest of the creatures,
which fastened four tentacles round the
leo of the boot, and with the other four
held firmly on to the rocks forming the
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