The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1888-09-08
II. 8. GREEN, a young Milwaukee

department of the county Jail awaiting
an examination. Some time ago he Sc
cured permission to investigate the in
sane asylum for the purpose Of writing
newspaper article, and while being
shown through the building manifested
unmistakable signs OF insanity. He be-
came very angry when taken away by
superintendent Hare, who thought the
sights We're affecting his brain. Green
threatened to make things warm for the
superintendent. He was so persistent
i'll his demands to the Governor for an
investigation of what he called abuses
that one was finally ordered, which re-
suited III the proof that he is himself in.
sane.
One of the inmates OF a Maine poor
house is very Justly called a female
Mark Tapley 10y the Portland Transcript.
After /. life Of toll she was obliged to he.
come q county charge. In the poorhouse
she reviewed the trials and triumphs Of
her life, and found she had much to be
thankful for. Her husband had abused
her, often beating her, but the Lord was
good and took him away. When her son
grew up he also was unkind and abusive,
but the Lord was still merciful and car
ried him off with an attack Of pneumo-
MIA. She had two teeth left, and, thank
the Lord, they were opposite each other
THE sudden report of revolver and
the spectacle of well dressed woman
pointing the weapon at her own head
caused tremendous scare in the church
of Pornic, III Brittany, at Sunday morn
M "a
would-be suicide. wrenched the revolver
from her, and held her until the police
arrived, She explained that she had
been deserted by her lover, a native OF
! Pornic, ana had travelled up from Ang.
ers to track him to his lair. Disappoint-
ed, she had come to the church to con-
! fess her sins before she died, but, find
ing the cure engaged, had decided to
/ kill herself without waiting. The
woman was released upon her promising
| to leave POrnic at once.
MIX Gnu PAE, Corean Minister at
! Washington, wears a most remarkable
costume when he goes for walk in
these days His dress is white, and on
his head towers the steeple shaped Cor
can hat Over his white costume he
wears long coat of blue mosquito net
ting. with tails that reach the ground.
In his hand PAX carries a cheap ging-
ham umbrella, Thus attired he stalks
solemnly along accompanied by his sec
retaries. Why lie wears the mosquito
netting coat is not known for certain.
1t is probable, however, that he thus
warns the Chinese Embassy that there
are no flies on him.
An AUSTRIAN vessel-the Dub-ar-
rived al Aberdeen from Alexandria, lad
en- with bones for manure. These bones
consist mainly of giratfes, buffaloes, and
camels, but when being put ON
board many complete human skeletons
were found amongst them. The captain
at once refused to take them, and upon
inGuiring where they were procured,
was informed that If was a native Gus
tom to visit battlefield and dig in the
trenches for the remains of the white
men. Notwithstanding all precautions
taken, the captain fears that many hui
man bones were mixed no with the
others in loading.
SOME one interested in stirring up
English alarms has discovered In the
Memoirs of Marshal Ney a record of
Tie tact that Ill 1866, when Napoleon,
designing the invasion of England,
gathered an army at Boulogne, it was
daily exercised Ill the operation of EN-
barking and disseminating and that 1t was
found that Ill ten and half minutes %,
900 men, with Ill their stores, ammuni
ton. artillery, and horses. were embark
ed, and IL thirteen minutes We're landed
again.
APAIR Of sparrows and a pair of robins
/ set up housekeeping III the same shius
in a front yard III Canton, Ne. Th,
robins were first t. pat n brood abroad
and some difficulty with a crow resulte,
!, in the death of the young ones and thell
I father. The mother robin. after mourn
ing bitterly for day or two, discovered
, the young sparrows, and lmmedlately
, adopted them, AMI was found broodine
them carefully while the parent sparrow'
brought worms and guarded the home.
4 NEW swindle is being worked on the
yuileless granger. He is induced t.
, bay something or other on long time
, h.s NOE Icing ~! the payment required
Bat he objects to giving has note ant
having it discounted for cash. sob
we'll keep the nCte," says the sharper
and thereupon writes across the face
"Not transferable 1t soon turns up agaiI
in the hands OF another party who want
the farmer to pay. An sc added to thu
, "Not." makes "Note transferable"