The Pontypridd District Herald and Rhondda Valley, Llantrisant, Caerphilly, and Mountain Ash News. — 1894-08-11 (Pontypridd, Mid Glamorgan, Wales)

VERY MISLEADING.  "Ham's very thin, sir." "It was thinner than that thirty years ago." "Indeed, air, you any prise me! Why, you don't look more than thirty now, sir." "Thirty yesterday." DAWKII4I3 "I was a great friend of your late husband. Have you any little thing of his you could let me have to remind me of him ? " Disconsolate Widow: "What's the matter with me ?" Exit Dawkins.  PEDDSTRIAN : " Police ! police!" Policeman: "What's the matter?' Pedestrian: "The villainous rascal tried to steal my purse." The "I beg pardon; lam no thief In the crowd I merely put my hand accidentally in the gentleman's pocket I thought it my own, for I have a pair of trousers exactly like his at home." "DID TOD see that pale young man calling out 'Cash 1' at the ribbon counter!" "Yes." "Fate is awfully funny sometimes. Ten years ago, when we were boys together, his one ambition was to be a mighty hunter and catch mountain lions with a lasso."  prisoner  A MAN suffers about the worst maiady known when he imagines there is something serious the matter with him. SHORT: "I thought you were going to drown that cat ?" Long: "Well, they say a cat has nine lives; but this one has twenty, I think. Why, I actually put that cat in a tub of water and tied a brick round its neck, and what do you think?' Short: "Goodness knows ?" Long: "Well, this morning, when I went to look at the tub, the cat had swallowed all the water and was sitting on the brick !"  THE sonLET TRAggpx. r ‘) At the Station Hotel, Ifinti son, coroner, opened an inquiry the death of a young man tin noire, aged , 20 years, who oommitted suicide near Horny at,. shooting at • cycle agent of Brighton. Wilter Flowers, of Brighton, a cycle agent, deposed that on the 31st ult. he was riding a bicycle from Brighton to London, and shortly before reaching Horny, about 3 o'clock in the afternoon, he saw the deoeasod riding 00e of his machines, • pneu. matte tyrtd safety. Witness rode up to him and said, "You have a fine mud:tine there," but de. °eased made no reply, and spurted away. Witness rode after him for about 50 yards, and the deoeued seeing that he was being overtaken, deliberately drew • revolver from his breast pocket, and when within three feet of him, fired at his head. Two of the bullets passed, one over his right shoulder and the other over his head, while • third penetrated his out sleeve and grazed his elbow. Witness was so startled that he fell from the machine, and the deceased, thinking he had shot him, at once made off. Witness again mounted, and calling to people on the road to stop the deceased, again pursued him ad got within 50 yards. Witness then called out, "You had better drop it," whereupon the deceased got off, took a parcel from the front of the machine, which he left in the roadway, got over the stile, and walked slowly towards • oopse. Other witnesses deposed to pursuing the deceased, who suddenly stopped, and, raising the revolver, shot himself in the temple.—Flowers identified the deceased as • man to whom he had refused to hire out • bicycle at Brighton.—P.o. Chandler, of the Surrey Constabu. lazy, said the deceased was dressed in a dark grey suit, straw hat, button boots, white collar and tie. There was nothing likely to lead to identification. In the pockets were a small bundle of ciwettes, • pipe, the ticket for the hire of a bicycle, fr. 7d. is silver and bronze, and 63 urtridges. The re volver had been loaded in four chambers, but all were discharged. The jury returned a verdict of " Suicide whilst temporarily insane."  1 , - 4 , , t 3 1 i - 4'. ' 1 1 '7 I _--, _ ....... .. ....--...„ ..,--..  /, ll ~,,,k1.:::: ~, /- AI • ' , 4414/ ' ,/, 1 . „