Bridgend & Neath Chronicle, and County of Glamorgan Advertiser. — 1894-03-30 (Bridgend, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

BELGIAN MURDER MYSTERY. A mysterious affair, in which there are suggestions of more than one murder having been committed under peculiar circumstances, is exciting much +Wention in Belgium. A few days ago, a gentleman belonging to one of the leading families of Louvain died suddenly, and was in due course buried in the family vault at the Lubbeck Cemetery. The newspapers reporting the matter gave the name of the deceased as Monsieur A. Subsequently a number of the chief law officers of Antwerp arrived at Louvain, and immediately proceeded to the cemetery, where the body was at once exhumed, the stomach and intestines being handed over to chemical experts for examination. This unexpected intervention of the law caused a great sensation at Louvain and Antwerp, which has now been increased by an exhumation carried out by the authorities at Ghent, especially as it is stated that there is direct connection between the two cases. The body of one of the largest manufacturers of Ghent, who had been dead for over a year, was exhumed from the parish cemetery, in order that the viscera might be submitted for examination to chemical analysts. The deceased, whose name is given as Monsieur Jacques van den K, died very sliddomly while on a visit to Antwerp.  Tame are indications of what might be called an Increase in the level of suniptuousness of the hospitality of Queen Victoria. Ilie service of plate sent out to Florence is, if anything, more abundant and elegant than those provided during any previous rinestiatura , and the style of her Majesty's dinner-table during the recent sojourn of the Court at Windsor is said to have been remarkable for its aniplitude and display. Members of the household have observed a new cheerfulness of spirit on the part of the Queen, and her willingness to be guided by the tastes of the younger members of the Royal family has resulted in some changes which, though slight in themselves, have served to bring the English Court more into line with the current European mode. Alt omnibus or van propelled by electricity stored in accumulators placed under the body of the vehicle is about to be put on the London streets for trial. Each charge of accumulators will suffice to run the vehicle about 30 miles; and the change involved in re-charging occupies only a few minutes—in fact, not longer than a change of horses in the case of ordinary 'buses. Twopence a mile is said to be the cost of the motive-power. Tun comparative value of a light-coloured wallpaper in a room is calculated by Dr. Sumpner, from systematic photometry, to be as follows: Suppose 100 candles give a certain light in a room covered with dead black cloth, 87 candles will give the same amount of light when dark-brown paper is used. With blue paper, 72 ...undies axe as effective; with fresh yellow paint, 60 candles; newly-dressed dealboarded walls, 50 candles. But if papered or painted a pure white, 15 candles have as ram+ lighting effect as the 100 when surrounded by black clothsovered walls. To the list of notable collectors of curiosities must be added Lord Randolph Churchill, who has a partialitv for collecting teeth of animals; the Duke of Argyll, who, on his Loch Fyne estate, has a grate Cl. trees, each tree having been planted by a celebrity; and Mine. Nilsson, who collects fans. Toe lisalthiest children in the world dwell in the Scottish highlands.