New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-06-27
GENERAL NOTES.

Here is a chapter of horrors from Germany
A peasant named Bandsleben living near K5n,gsbero
sold and received part OF the purchase money
hundred-msrk bank note. HIS little pulled the note
from his pocket and IN playing with 10 tore 10 into
pieces. Tho enrs9ed father dragged the child to chop
pingblock and cut its head OF with an axe Then no
returned 10 the hOuse and told his wife what be had
done, The woman. who was bathing younger child,
fe down In faint dropping the infant into the bath
tub where IL was drowned.
During one of the recent exciting debates at
Versailles the presidential bell violently agitaed by
Gambetta, lost its clApper, which went spinning
through the air. and caught NJ Langois in the eye. He
Thought missile had been thrown at him by Of
his opponents and was seeking for mark against
which he could hnrl his resentment aud the capper.
when he had hurried explanation Of the affair made 10
him by OF the secretaries, who took the capper from
the skirts OF ms from him BY his
friends who endeayored to prevent him from rushing
down into the arena
John Kemmler, the German who shot his
three children in Hoyoke. Mass, last Saturday had
lately returned from Omaha in discouraged state Of
mind. having spent his money to purpose. He claims
that he killed the children all little girls because ne
could not support them and send them TO school He
tells the story OF his terrible deeds unconeernedly,
and even aughingy. In personal appearance the
has villanOus look. he was called John tbs Rat"
and was known a rat-eateF and snske-tame~. Hts
band hanged Once he has tried her by putting
means OF saving her life.
When it is borne in mind that whether she
meant to shoot her friend Ellen Hearn not, she
tainly did shoot her. Miss Lille Duer has returned from
Hill, Md, where she tried aud convicted "
mansaughter PocomOke CITY, her place Of residence,
in jaunty and self-eOmplaceRt frame of mind letter
says: She a bone TO most everybody who calls.
and chats In the most lively ana attractive manner"
But worse is to Miss Lille Duer has announced
her intention of going lecture tour, which she
thinks the pubhc interest I'm her trial viii make very
successful. OF course, she Ia mistaken. Ii ~ not
probable that she would make her expenses much less
her fortune but ner entertainment FOR moment Of the
nOuon shows what hippant and shallow young woman
must be. Somebody ought to tell her that with
qualification save temporary nOtOrlety lecturers
orally hold forth TO be2gary array OF empty benches
The spirit photograph business is now at a
discount Rochester, y. Y. At gallery eondueted hy
long-hared priestess, photographs have been taken
Of stters, and each negative has appeared spirit
outline. Two ladies had their pictures taken the other
day In the first photograph the spirit vas that OF
young lady on balcony with her hand 10 her face, her
hair and being in the fashion OF thirty years
ago. The other photograph showed the spirit OF
woman dressed in y % about the same period,
her hair rngles banded on the top near the temple
with sfings OF pearls. In Der hand WAS a rose The
pictures OF the ladies themselves clear and sharply
defined while those the Inruiers hay, but with
the outlines clearly defined. when the pictures were
finished the ladies took them home, aud examining
closely concluded they had seen the spirit part
before and In turning over the leaves OF
magazines across the eUgravlnZs OF TIE orig
u1ls. The rst was taken from an engraving repre-
spntng "NUurnahal" and the second was from an en-
craving Of The Last Rose or summer