The Northern Guardian. — 1892-10-15 (Hartlepool, Cleveland, England)

CHILDREN'S CONCERTS. See public notice. —Advt. WATCHER thoroughly cleaned, is 6d •, new mainspring, Is 6d; brooch pins, 2d. All work guaranteed 12 montha.—J. M. CROZIER, 76, Lynn Street, N'N'oa Hartlepool.—Adrt THE FANCY DRAPERS' SFIOP, Musgrave Street, is established to supply the Public with the very Best Goods, at the smallest possible profit for Cash only.— %V. MAasiuEu, A farmer near Harroaate has in his possession a stack of wheat that is 57 years old. It has belonged to three generations of the family, has been thatched year by year by them, and the corn has not been destroyed by rats or mice. Two workmen have been arrested at Kansas for killing a companion named Vincent. In a spirit of practical joking they attached an electric wire to a piece of machinery which Vincent handled. He expired at once from the shock. Four negro boys who were arrested at Camden, Alabama, confessed to having murdered Robert Johnson and his (laughter in Munro County. They were taken by a sheriff's posse to the scene of the crime, and there met by 500 whites, who lynched them and afterwards burned their bodies. A cripple, named Jeremiah O'Dowd, fell into the river Towy at Carmarthen, and as lie was about to sink for the last time another cripple, named Arthur J. Davies, who possesses a Royal Humane Society's medal and certificate, jumped into the water, and with difficulty brought O'Dowd to shore. Some remarkable experiments in hypnotism at the Charite Hospital in Paris are reported by a correspondent, in which Dr. Luys is stated to have successfully transferred a woman's sensibility to a tumbler of water, while in another case the sensibility was transferred to a photographic negative. Baron Hirsch is (says a London correspondent) not only the richest man in the world, but the richest man the world has ever known. He is said to be worth six millions a year. To the man who told me this I ventured to suggest " franca ?" "No," replied he, "six millions a year in pounds sterling." It is stated, says a St. Petersburg correspondent, that the Holy Synod has determined to combat the spread of dissent throughout the Empire by instituting in all the clerical academies and seminaries public disputations with the dissenters, and by granting exceptional facilities to missionaries sent to convert the dissenters. Lady Tennyson has, we learn, in her portfolio a large number of melodies set to her husband's words. Some of them, with pianoforte accompaniments by Miss Janotha, have been performed, but others are either mere sketches or have not yet been given to the world. In the course of next year we are likely to hear more of them. The Royal Commission to inquire into the granting of a charter to the new Gresham University, of which Earl Cowper is chairman, met on Thursday in Committee Room A in the House of Lords. Evidence was given by Professor Stuart, M.P., who represented the London Society for the extension of University Teaching. Telephone girls in Belgium are going to have a hard time of it. The lines have now been taken over by the Government, and operators are to pass an examination. The qualification is a thorough knowledge of French, Flemish, German, English, and of geography—the test in the last case being a complete drawing of the map of Europe from memory.  At a meeting of the Hampstead Board of I Guardians it was resolved to apply to the Local Government Board for a free grant for the use of a number of the male inmates of the Hampstead Workhouse of non-duty paid tobacco seized by the Customs officers, which was formerly consigned to the "Queen's pipe," but is now handed over to the Local Goverment Board for use in workhouses.