Morning journal and courier., 1889-03-30
wore Her Diamond Ring.

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 WORCESTER, Mass., March 29.-A young man giving the name of Paul Boyle or Boyd, formerly student at Holy Cross college, has been visiting in this city, and about week ago went to Milford and it is supposed thence to Boston. When he went away he wore $125 diamond ring belonging to young lady which he had been wearing under protest from her. The police are looking for the ring.
 Defeat of the 0sBrlen Resolutions.
 OTTAWA, Ont, March 29.-The excitement over the defeat last night in the house of commons over Col. O'Brien's resolutions on the Jesuits estate act passed by the Quebec legislature is intense. The Orangemen will hold mass meeting Monday night to orga- nize 8 national defense fund to test the val- idity of the act in the courts.
 Betting on Honesty.
 LBjornstjerne Bjornson, in Harper's Magazine for
 April.l
 One Winters day, some years ago,a couple of young men were sitting in London talk ing of their travels during the summer. One of them had been in Norway, and could not sufficiently praise the honesty of the Norwegian peasants and their readiness in judging character. s'If am we'll dressed person, and look like gentleman, can travel through the whole country in my own cariole without paying 8 penny for the horses. need only say, The one wAo comes on behind will pay.'" That was too much for tho other. and it ended in heavy bet that they should go together through Norway, buy their own carioles, and travel through the country, the first of them half day in advance of the other, without 8 single penny in his pocket; the other should follow behind and pay.
 The following summer they went to Nor way, got their carioles, and started on their trip. But at the first station the Englishman who had expatiated upon the honesty of the Norwegians got into 8 fix; he had forgotten what the magic words were in Norwegian. He could not pay the post-boy, neither could he say, "The one who comes on behind will pay" Fortunately merchant from Christi ania came to the rescue. The En9lishman told him all about the bet, upon which the merchant informed him what the words were in Norwegian. The Englishman repeated them to the post-boy, and they had at once the desired effect The boy was satisfied, and said it would no doubt be all right about the money. The merchant, however, thought it would be best for the credit of the country to let the new post-boy, who was to go with the Englishman to the next station, into the secret, and requested him to pass it on from station to station, that when the first Eng lishman arrived and said, "The one coming on behind will pay," no one was to trouble him about money, for on being allowed to continue his journey in this way he would win the bet. The boy understood to do this, and all the pest-boys and ststion.keepers on the road enjoyed the joke immensely, with out betraying that they knew anything about the affair. And 50 it happened that the Englishman travelled through the country without paying penny; and thus the two Englishmen go about telling this story, which again is told to thousand others, that in Norway you need not pay at the posting stations, but only say, "The one who comes on behind will pay"
 A heavy snow storm prevails throughout Styria. In some districts melted snow has caused extensive floods.
 It is proposed to confer the freedom of on Mir. Parnell. A majority of the town council favor the proposition.
 Numerous arrests have been made in south ern Russia of persons said to be implicated in a gigantic plot on the life of the Czar.
 No credence is given at San Diego, Cal, to the reported fight between Americans and Mexicans at the mines in Lower California. No details of the trouble have been received.
 The man who was killed at Muncie, Ind, Wednesday proves not to have been Lieuten- ant Henry F. Batemen of the Tenth United States infantry though the papers found on the dead man belong to Bateman.
 The steamship City of Augusta which has arrived at Savannah reports that she spoke the steamship Hudson from New York on the 18th. The Hudson was disabled and was heading for Charleston. She wanted no assistance.