The weekly messenger. [volume] (St. Martinsville [i.e. St. Martinville] La.) 1886-1948, 1890-12-06
so severely that he died the next day.


Although possessing a fortune of two
million roubles, this eccentric person ha.
left no heirS-nor the bear either.
AN unfortunate young man of the name
OF Robert Heard, living at Totness, Eng
land, became enamOred of a comely
maiden who did not reciprocate his affec
ton. The other day Robert met the
cruel maiden and in a moment of uncon
trollable rapture put his arms about her
and stole kiss. The fair but obduratt
one lodged formal complaint agains,
Robert, and the young man was appre-
hended and tried for his misdemeanor.
The magistrate, after hearing the pros
and cons, sentenced Robert to six weeks
at hard labor. AS Robert walked off to
prison he remarked proudly, "Well, the
kiss was worth it,"
THERE are $50 members of the Hair
Dressers' Academy in London, all men,
females not being admitted, as being in
ferior artists. The academy meets once
a week for lessons upon living models,
though new members practice upon u
block head. A few women with fine
heads of hair serve as models, but bet
ter field for practice is provided by scanty
haired women, upon whose heads the
true ingenuity and resources Of the hair
dresser can find the fullest opportunity
for producing a grand effect with little
material
A WOMAN went into a drugstore in
Chicago the other day, and asked the
clerk to look at her dog, which she held
in her arms, and prescribe for it. One
glance at the dog was enough to convince
the clerk that it was mad The beast
was frothing at the mouth. The clerk
ran behind the counter and saturated a
handful of cotton with chloroform. The
dog bounded out of the woman's arms
and ran behind the counter. Two men
drove the beast into corner, where the
clerk chloroformed him.
AN extraordinary story of cannibalism
comes from Zanzibar, Africa. A love
match had been made between a couple
of young Swabilis, and on the day follow
ing that of the marriage the bridegroom's
friends called to offer the customary con-
CALCULATIONS. They experienced some diff
Guilty in getting into the hut. and at last
forced an entrance, when they found that
the bride of a day had killed her beloved
lord, had already had one feast off his
body, and was preparing the remainder
for future use
n TANNED fawn skin and big knife
are the trophies of a summer with the
Seminoles that Walter Langford is show
lng his friends in jacksonville, Fla.
Langford says that he had glorious
time in tho Everglades. The Seminoles.
he SAID. are fiourishing. The skin was
tanned by Il wildwood sage named Henry
Clay, and the knife once belonged to
young man known as John Dobbin. who
used it Unfortunately for killing bucks,
cutting wood and scalping white men.
In Tepe Kermene, an ancient town IN
Crimea, platina coin has been found !
bearing the image of Antiochos of Syria,
who died Is. {. 164. The coin is what !
call a unicus, the only one
of its kind known to exist, and for
this reason its value is inestimabie. In |
the same place coin was found with
the image of SOW and three cubs.
over the significance of which the stu
dents of archaeology are breaking their
heads.
WHILE the train known as 1.-THE Fly-
ing Yankee" was passing through Great
" orks, Maine, the other day at the rate
Of forty miles an hour, John Surrey
Jumped from the cars and struck the
ground sixty-nine feet from the spot
where he left the train. It was thought
)y the few who witnessed the affair that
he would be killed. They were much
surprised when he picked himself up and
walked off, having received no further
INJURIES than some slight scratches.
A CURIOUS mistake was made bv the
who have put several 50
liver certificates on tine market when
hey curled General Hancock's mustache
n the wrong direction. An employee in
he Treaselrcr's office at Washington dis
covered the counterfcit, but in consc-
Iuence of Their error made in changing
ne Generals appearance, even bya hair,
he certificates can be easily detected.
A RUSSIAN prince named Dshora
>airoff has just been hanged at Vladivo-
took. He was Il captain in TScherkask
egimeEt. and murdered six persons in
heir sleep. in revenge for an injustice
which he imagined had been done him.
The Prince, who had asked to he shot,
nj not confess his guilt under the gal
ows. He was only thirty years of age.
WHILE excavating for new railway at
hlpley. England, recently, the work
hen found red clay urn, about twelve
aches high, embedded in the clay. The
IN contained hundreds of coins of vari.
us shapes, the dates of which showed
hat they must have been buried quite
90 years.