The Warwickshire Herald. — 1899-06-08 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

BMA., be remained foe Oilmen years at Munich as Minister of War and arsod Chamberlain to the Elector. lie had before this received the honour of knighthood from ; George DI., and in 1791 be was created a Count of ' the Holy Roman 'Empire. He took his title from Eumford—the original name of the present city of 1 thomtwd—widah WU the home of his wife's family. In rree, hawing returned to Mogland, he founded the Royal butitettlen in conjuustiso with Mr Joseph thinks. Pluallg he settled in Paris, whew he nierried as his sepia wife a. &agate of the famous chemise Lavoisier, sad where be died soddenly in 1914, bide eizereerend year.  At Walkden, the body of Alice Farnworth, idow, aired sixty. of Little Halton, was found floating in a pond. Police-constable Galley tried artificial respiration, but without avail. A daughter said she thought her mother committed suicide through domestic trouble.  The death is announced of Fullerton, the greatest greyhound of modern there, and the hero of foux Waterloo Cups. Fullertoa cost Colonel North 850 guineas, but the last days of the famous dog were spent at his birthplace, at Short Flatt Towers, Northtunberland. Romance entered into the life of Fullerton, and it was only by a lucky chance that his end was not passed in obscurity. He never fairly settled down at Lltham, and one day, being more home-sick than usual, he took it into his head , to try and find his way back to Northumberland. • Sir Benjamin Thompson, better known as Count Th raised °e doo being missed a hue and cry was at once Rumford, the founder of the Royal Institution, now - ' and a reward of £5O offered, but for some time nothing was heard of him. Then came news celebrating its centenary, had a remarkably varied from the little village of Limpsfield that a dog somecareer. The son of a New England farmer, he was thing like Fullerton was in the possession of born in 1753. When thirteen years old he was i named Richards. Inquiry proved that it apprenticed to a storekeeper in Salem, where he a postman was none other than the famous greyhound, and occupied his spare time with scientific experiments. shortly afterwards the dog was again established at Before he was fourteen he had educated himself to such purpose in science and mathematics that he the home which he so much desired to leave. was able to predict a solar eclipse within four seconds I of accuracy. On the outbreak of the War of 1 Independence Thompson served with the Royaiiste. Being sent on a mission to England, he was appoint* to a clerkship in a Government office, and in 1779 , became a Fellow of the Royal Society. Wiiejt Lord North's Ministry resigned Thompson was nominated to a cavalry command in America.  It appears that Fullerton had been in the neighbourhood of Limpsfield for some days—too footsore rrweary to travel further. Ile tried to rest on the doorstep of a cottage, but, being driven away, he sought shelter in a shed. Here his ill-fortune stilt dogged him, and, as a last resource (more hunger, It was thought, than thirst), he entered the tar of the village inn. The dog's appearance gave r.,leur to the thought that he was some wanderir,g cur, whom nobody would be troubled with, and once again he was driven away. Sick at heart, he appears to have taken refuge in the door of a shop in the Tillage, where his misfortunes would soon have ended with death, had not his forlorn appearance touched the heart of young Richards, who played the part of the (iood Samaritan to the dog.  The Belgian Vielle Montagne Zinc Company are the largest zinc manufacturers in the world. They oven work a Cumberland mine, and ship the ore tw Antwerp to their works, where they make shale sino for the use of plum6ws and others in this country. Its use in building construction, savanta. tag, box lining, telegr:phy, and telephone* has grown immensely in Britain. The world's prodab. tion of 'pater now is 436,000 hoes, of which We gooduce 23,000 tons. Although tithe is of ore in England, the minutactars of op= not increase.  - President hounct was mobbed on Sunday on the Auteuil racecourse, and an attempt was made to brain him. Scores of arrests were made.  --The King of Italy has signed a decree for the liberation of all those suffering imprisonment for complicity in the quasi-revolution of May, 1898. Thirty Indians have been drowned while crm,ing the Lake of Clouds in Canada.