Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1892-03-12 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

FACES IN COURT.  or in the instrument made use of, the death ensuing will be either murder or manslaughter., according to the circumstances of the case. The decisions bearing on the point ore very few, the most important being Regina v. Hopley, 2 F. and F. 202, in which the late Lord Chief Justice of England sentenced a schoolmaster to four years' penal servitude for beating a boy of 13 for two hours and a-half till be died, and in all of the cases except one the child killed appears to have been at least more than seven years old. The exception is Regina v. Griffin, 11 Cox, C. C. 402, in which I Baron Martin, after consulting Mr. Justice Willes, ruled that the law as to correction has reference only to a child capable of appreciating correction, and not to an infant iwo and a half years old; that, although a slight slap may be lawfully given to an infant by her mother, more violent treatment so young by her father would not be justifiable; and that the only question for the jury to decide was whether the child's death was accelerated or caused by a whipping inflicted by the prisoner, her father.—The Lain Journal.  Tom are in Paris 184 horse meat shops, which last year disposed of over 10,000,000165. of flesh. lone cntlets now fetch 104. per pound, and horse steak about fid.  Tonne were coquettes in Ancient Greece and Rome. A matron in the times of the Cicsars had a hundred ways of dressing her hair, and a hundred implements for dressing it with, an untold number of powders, essences, cosmetic., and dyes for her use at the bath. The Egyptian, the Syrian, and the Babylonian ladle. were quite as ornate and quite as extravagant as their sisters in Rome and Athens. In Queensland on a recent day the unprecedented reinfall of Beg inches in 24 houre produced heavy floods, which carried sway buildings and stopped all teal°. . . _  $Ol.l • t • 1 pain ers m Geneva are painting e panorama of the Somme Alp., which will have a height of 51 feet and width of 345 feet, to go to Chicago. The whole will mat about £60,000. It was all sketched from the summit of the Ifannlichen, 6600 feet high. In oigging the foundations of a new sacristy for the church of St. Christopher at Terming • trench has been discovered containing more than 2000 skeletons. It is suppoeed that they are the remains of those who fell at the battle of Terming, which wee fought on May 17, 1794. I TAB fervour that once poseeesed colleetors of orchids has waned considerably. They are still ready to give guineas freely at times for imported plantg that look like bundles of dried sticks on the off-ehanes that • great prise may fall to their share; but with few eseeptions, known seriatim. however per{we, se longer command falnalom prima.  Hans Schmitt, a tourist from Vienna, performed on the 26th ult, the daring feat of climbing over Martin's Well to Maximilian'. Grotto, in the valley of the inn shove Innsbruck. He started for the Loletein with two gentlemen and a lady, but they had to torn back owing to the depth of the snow. Despite the warnings of the guide, however, Schmitt climbed Martin's Wall. He stopped half way up, emoked s cigarette and sang a song. Then he continued the ascent, and arrived three hours afterwards in the grotto, whence he returned to Zirl by the newly-repaired way down Martin's Wall.