Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1866-10-20 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

TIDAL JOKE.—A crowd of people was last week seen collected together on one of the Paris quays, eagerly scanning a garret window of one of the houses. Whispers and murmurs grew louder, and the crowd increased rapidly. At the window were observed the legs of a woman dangling and swaying to and firm and it was clear that a crime had been committed or a suicide had taken place in the room. The guardwas sent for, and took o'wervations, coming to the conchlaim of the crowd. Bo they proceeded to the room, and as no response was given from within, forced open the door, finding ineniselvie in the room of a young sculptor, and that the lees dangling at the window were beautiful plaster of Paris legs of a female hung up to dry. The mare's nest in every sense caused considerable hilarity below, and at the expense, of course, of the sergens-de-ville. THE ELEcreic TELEOOArit.—Mr. George Crinkshank has contributed the following on the discovery and introduction of the electric telegraph : The discovery arose, I believe, from the circumstance or Mr. Wheats, one when first appointed lector. r at King's College, having seven miles of wire in the lower part of that building which shuts upon the river Thames, for the Tempos. of measuring the speed of lightning, or the electric current, and upon one occasion, when explaining his expertmer ts tome, he sald,--" I intend one day to lay some of this wire across the heel of the Thames, and to carry it up to the top of the shot tower on the other side, and so make rgnals," and this we., I believe, the first Idea or suggestion of a submarine telegraph. We are also indebted to Mr. Wheatstone for the electric bell, for lose before this telegraph came before the puhlic, In explaining the machinery to me, he said, as it was possible that one party might be asleep at one end of the wire, he had an arranged the working that the first touch simile ring a hell at the other end, even if th mends of miles apart This, It will he admitted, is an important part of the discovery, and therefore I am sure that everyone will feel that the man who has done suAl wonders for the public advantage in introducing such instant communication with the "wide, wide world "well deserves the Minorite and rewards which your correspondent and yourself have suggested should he conferred upon my old and highly esteemed friend. TRFATMENT OF WOMEN IN Puttl.—A letter from Peru gives a lndicrous account of the mode of mounting a horse. The women do all the work, and the men are a good-for-nothing set of gamblers and thieves. The women ride on the hindquarters of their horses, without a saddle, cross-legged, with the load in front. They mount the animal by taking hold of his long tail, making a loop by doubling it up and clasping with one hand the upper and lower parts of the tail, and then putting one foot in the loop and the other foot on the joint of the horse's leg, they ascend as if going upstairs. They usually stand erect on the horse before Bitting down. The horses never kick or stir.  AN INTERESTING PHOTOGRAPH ! A letter from Rome, in the Independence Beige, has the following passage : You are aware that the Roman Bunk, whose note. are at ten per ceet, discount against Rom.n money and twenty per cent. for French, is oblered to provide 30,0001. a day to exchange at par. The most disorderly sums take place at the office where this operation is carrieo out. Wile,i a certain number of the holders of notes, amounting to perhaps about one-half the stipulated amount, have been admitted, the employes declare that the sum is exhausted, ass cause the gendarmes to disperse the crowd. Tne National Committee has had one of those scenes photographed, and showing from the life the gendarmes and the antral to the exercise of their functions—that is to say, brutallalog the crowd. A copy of tni was sent to the Pope, from whom there was then no longer any possibility of concealing the truth. The paternal heart of Pius IX. was moved. Be required explanations to be given hum and called, as you have doubtlose heard, a meeting at the Vatican of men versed in business Orsini, in order to devise a means of remedying this state of things Csteltnal Antonelli In said to be touch annoyed at that course, and to have remarked that matters were returning to the bad times of IE4B, since laymen were mixed up in Sate affairs. t THE &dives REVENGE ! —Another incident I illnetrutes rather forcibly the native'a sense of wrong (remarks The Argosy for October). A certain Portiacue.e signer, near Sheipanga, formed the not fin, common habit of speeding a ereat deal of hto time in <limiting spirits, and. when less than tall conscious from the rffews, making his Fiance fan him as lie lay on his bed. When sober, his principal amusement was ill-treating them. On one occasion his so-called native wife happened to incur his resentment for want of proper attention, and in fear of the consequencea took refuge with some of her friends. Baying found oat where ahe was, he followed and brought her away in spite of most earnest entreaties, and soon after had her deliberately shot before his eyes by one of her fellow-slaves. The governor of Quelimann was in the neighbourhood at the time, but witnesses were wanting to prove the killing of a negro, for, of course, no native's word is evidence! Not long afterwards he was crossing the river in a canoe, as usual halt-intoxicated. His own slaves were padding ; but the canoe VIM large, the weather perfectly calm, and there were no sunken trees for them to ran against. Yet significantly enough an upset took place, and no helping havd caved the murderer from his fate, though every negro on the Zambesi knows well how to swim.