Brighouse & Rastrick Gazette. — 1893-05-20 (Brighouse, West Yorkshire, England)

DOMESTIC TRAGEDY IN VIENNA.  A terrible domestic tragedy has occurred in Vienna. A cabman named Manz, as he was lcaviqg his house saw two of his children, aged three and 'our years, standing at the open window, on the third floor, to watch his depaiture, when they overbalanced themselves and fell on to the pavement, being killed on the spot. The mother of the unfortunate little children also witnessed the accident, and the shock and grief seem to have cl:itren her out of her mind. The lather hurried back, and in his anguish the unhappy man quietly took his third child, a little boy, went straight to the Danube, Ind them drowned himself and the child.  Some further particulars have now transpired respecting the circumstances connected with the murder of a student, whose headless body was discovered in a forest near the Plussa Station on the St. Petersburg-Warsaw Railway. It would appear that the young man was killed by his associates, owing to his refusal to carry out his promise to assassinate an exalted personage. It is in fact, currently reported that the band to which the deceased belonged contemplated the assassination of the Czar and the Czarewitch, as well as of several prominent, members of the Government. News has reached Plymouth by mail of a courageous act performed by John Campbell, the carpenter of the Peninsular and Oriental steamer Manila, in saving the life of James Leybourne, one of the quartermasters on beard that ship. While the vessel was recently at anchor in Singapore Roads, some two miles from the shore, where sharks are known to abound in great numbers, Leybourue fell overboard, a three-knot tide runniug at the time. Campbell, without a moment's hesitation, jumped after him, and succeeded in keeping the man above water until a boat could be /mulched, which eventually nicked both on.  All Eng'labium, thinking to have a joke at au Irishman's expense, walked into his (the Irishman's) shop one day, when he found Pat busily engaged behind the counter. "Pat," said the Englishman, "I want a yard of meat." Pat looked at him, and, without making any roinark, walked over to a barrel which was concealed under the counter, and, picking out three pig's feet, laid them before his customer. "Ilullo, Pat," said the astonished Englishman, "what does this mean 7" "Och," said Pat, "didn't ye ask me for a yard of mate, and ain't there three feet in a yard any day i''  Continued in our next.—Naresclikin, director of the Russian Imperial Theatre in the "forties," was a great favourite of the Czar's. In spite of this, or perhaps in consequence of it, hP was always in difficulties. At one time lie published a book of boa mots dedicated to the Emperor. The latter, in return, sent Nareschkin a book, the leaves of which were thousand-rouble notes. At the next opportunity the Czar asked the director: "How did you like my book?" "It interested me so deeply," was the reply:, "that I can scarcely wait for the second volume." The Czar laughed, and on the following day sent Nareschkin a second edition: but on this occasion the cover and title-page bore the words. "Second and last volume,"