Bridlington and Quay Gazette. — 1884-01-26 (Bridlington, Humberside, England)

COMPLICATED BIGAMY CASE.  At Birkenhead, William Wilson, a 'has driver, who attempted to commit suicide by jumping from the ferry-boat, Birkenhead, has been charged with having committed bigamy by marryieg Jana Cooksync woile his Brat wile was alive. When inquiries were made regarding the prisoner at his house in Bootle, after he had attempod to commit suicide, it transpired that a woman calling hereelf his first wife went to the house on the same night along with a pollee-officer, aud armed with certificates to prove her marriage to the prisoner, and also that to the second wife. She said she intendel to have the prisoner prosecuted, and further inquiriss were then made by the police. A witness deposed that the first wife, before tie marriage, toll people that she was a widow, that her husband had died in Bermuda, and that she had buried three children there. The second wife stated that when the first wife came to the house she had some words with the prisoner, and the latter retorted that before they had been a fortnight married she told him that she had another husband still living. The prisoner was remanded.  Toriarriid Tag schetibmister being troubled with a rather thoughtless lot of boys, determined to cure themof theirthoughtlesenees by the following means. Any boy who wanted to speak on any subject, provided it was of no particular importance, should count thirty, but supposing it to be important, he should count fifty. One day, whilst standing with his back to the fire, he was astonished to hear the entire school countinuir rapidly. "What is the matter, boys?" he enquired. "Thirty-eight, thirty-nine, forty," was the only answer vouchsafed. "Answer me immediately," he shouted. "Forty-one, forty-two, forty-three," they replied. "I will thrash every one of you," he thundered, "unless you reply." "Forty-four, forty-five, forty-six." "What Is the meaning of this impertinence," he fairly yelled. "Forty-seven, forty-eight, forty-nine.' 'You shall pay dearly for this," the exasperated schoolmaster frantically cried. "Fifty," echoed over the school room, and then the information came from fifty pair of lips, "Master, your coat tail is on fire." _ . . . . . .  DB. Aszra.—The doctor once went to Cannon's, the seat of the late Duke of Chandos, to assist at the performance of an oratorio at Whitchurch, but such was the throng of company, that no provisions were to be procured at the Duke's house. On going to the Chandos Arms, in the town of Edgeware, he made his way into the kitchen, where he found only a leg of mutton on the spit. This, the waiter informed him, was bespoke by • party of gentlemen. The doctor, (rubbing his elbow—hie usual manner) exclaimed, "I'll have that mutton, give me a fiddle string" He took the fiddle string, out it in pieces, and privately sprinkling it over the mutton, walked out of the kitchen, then waiting very patiently till the waiter had served it up, he heard one of the gentlemen exclaim, "Waiter, this meat is full of maggots, take it away !" Thie was what the doctor expected. "Here, give it me !" "0 Sir," says the waiter, "you can't eat it, 'tie full of maggots I" " 0, never mind," says the doctor, "fiddlers have strong stomachs." So bearing it away, and scraping oil the fiddle eteimew riot a haexie diaaar.  ---mlucffmf Never believe, much Ler propagate, an evil report of a neighbour without good evidence of its truth.  The mind of the child should be disoiplined by the effort of study, ea our souls by suffering. There is no nobility like that of a true heart; for such never stoops to artce, nor is wanting in good offices, when they are seasonable.