Denton and Haughton Examiner, etc. — 1889-02-16 (Denton, Greater Manchester, England)

DEMENTED DOCTOR. A man was quietly walking on the Paris Boulevards the other morning, when he suddenly saw a wild. looking person emerging hastily from a cab and making towards him. lie was intensely surprised when the wild-looking person sei/ed him by the collar of his coat and said to him sneeringly, You think you are in robust health, you wretch, whereae you are dying by inches ! To my oxygenic apparatus!" and with that the strange individual ran back to his cab and produced therefrom a kind of electric battery, with inhalation tubes. The man who was thee admonished of his approaching dissolution beckoned promptly to an adjacent policeman, and the ownerof the oxygenic apparatus was called upon to give an account of himself. Ile was a doctor in fair practice, living in the Rue Pauquet, and had been lately labouring under the delusion that mankind was universally afflicted with a terrible disease, for which he hut invented a remedy in the shape of his batteries and tubes. He carried his apparatus about in a cab, and before he had met the man on the Boulevard he had frightened several females terribly.  An inquest has been held as to the death of a man, whose remains had been found on the South-Ea.stem Railway, between Chilworth and Gomshall. A driver at Aldershot noticed bloodstains on the engine of one of the trains. He wired back, and on examination being made • man's head, leg, and arms were found, while the trunk was literally in pieces. Identifiestion was impossible. There was no evidence to show who the man was, and an open verdict was returned. ROYAL', was treated with scant ceremony in the streets of Copenhagen a little while ago. Two American boys were playing in the street, and one tossed the other's hat into a tree. An elderly gentleman was passing by with his bead buried in a boo and an umbrella under his arm, no the owner of the hat asked him to rescue the head-gear. The gentleman could not reach it, but he allowed the boy to mount on his shoulders and hook down the hat with the umbrella. Just as the boy had succeeded, a gentleman came by, and, saluting the first corner, called him "Your Majesty." So the American boy I had been using King Christian, of Denmark, sa a ladder! A GRAND ball, which will usher lathe new American l'resident, will commemorate the ball given by Georg* Washington a century ago. The partners in the open. cog quadrille will be confined to people who date. back their family connections to those who led off the dance with Washington a hundred years since. Raw YOFIX, the Empire City of America—the metropolis of the New World—hea 1 population of 1,200,000, and only 92,000 houses. Philadelphia, the quiet old Quaker City, has a popu'ation of 817,000 people and 179,000 house, In New York, therefore, the proportion of persons to each house is over 13, while in Philadelphia it is less than five. he the first number of the new patent journal sled is set out of applications which were made for patents from Jan. Ist to sth, and they amount to no fewer than 251. They come in at the rate of 50 a day, and deal with almost every phase of our life. Once James Kimbull Halley was a fatllo.. Portrait painter of Baltimore. In his prosperous days he married • niece of General Sherman. Now povertl and misery have driven him to suicide.  I paint