The Kenilworth Advertiser. — 1891-08-01 (Kenilworth, Warwickshire, England)

JEALOUS SERVANT'S CRIME.  An extraordinary case of attempted murder hag been tried at Orleans. The accused person is a girl named Masson, who was in the service of a M. Davoine, a tradesman at Beangency. Lately M. Davoine married, and Masson became jealous of her mistress, whom accordingly she resolved to murder. On June 3rd last ki*son asked Madame Davoine to accompany her to the cellar, where she would show her & special "cru" which had been kept a long time in the place. While the mistress and maid were on the steps leading to the wine-vault Masson blew out the candle which she was carrying, and seizing Madame Davoine attempted to drag her towards a deep pit or well in the floor of the cellar. , Madame Davoine struggled and screamed, whereupon the servant caught her by the hair and endeavoured to dash her brains out against the wall. Masson also bit and scratched her mistress in the face, kicked her, threw her down' attempted to strangle her, and, finally, dragging her to the' 41, pushed her into it. •Madame ravoine was weak from head blood, but had strength enough leftto jsold on ber hands and beg for mercy. "No," said Masson. "you must die! You have led me too much of a dance for the past ten days." The fury next took up a large stone and flung it down on her victim, who was able, however, to protect her head with her arms. Leaving her mistress, as she thought, to die, Masson went upstairs and pretended to wonder at Madame Davoine's absence. Several hours later M. Davoine. who thought that his wife had gone out to visit her mother, had occasion to go to his wine-vault, and while there he heard feeble moans proceeding from the interior of the well. Madame Davoine was thus rescued, and her would-be murderer was arrested. The injured woman, who was sufficiently recovered to be able to give evidence, attended in court. Masson was sentenced to 20 years' penal syvitude.  Notoorttes.  Meteorites, or falling stars, usually appear at • height of about 70 miles above the earth and disappear at a height of 50 miles. The cause of their disappearance or extinguishing is to be looked for either in their ono* more leaving our atmosphere, or that they are atomised by the fierce heat generated by their extremely rapid Right and the great resistance offered by the atmosphere. The latter assumption would account for the oontinuous fall of cosmic dust upon the surface of our globe. The velocity with which they enter and pass through our atmosphere is enormous. It is many times faster than sound, the flight of a cannon ball, and even the planets revolving round the sun. The detonations sometimes accompanying the fall of a large meteorite have three distinct causes: The whizzing is caused by its rapid passage through the air; the crackling by the combustion of the materials composing it; and the thunderbig by columns of air rushing into the vacuum which it leaves behind.  lom?times  Can Fish Hear? In order to test the question as to whether Ash do' or do not hear, some interesting experiments were y made at a trout hatchery. The trout were recently ananow stream which traversed the building trom end to end. At the lower corner was erected o screen, behind which the operator took position. every variety of noise was made by the person in Pn.cealment,and amid it all the trout remained perfeatly motionless; but as soon as a handkerchief was waved above the top of the screen the fish darted towards the upper end of the building at a high rate of speed. Some fishermen when setting their nets have a habit of making a noise by striking the side of their boats with an oar or stick while moving toward the spot at which their nets are set. This is done with the idea that the fish hear and are frightened by the row into moving forward. Some of thesellshermen, while they follow the practice, maintain that it has no effect whatever unless the lish are in sight. Then it is the movement of the Pr or stick, which is visible to them, that drives  box baopeoed _to Mr. Henry  Tam