The Warwickshire Herald. — 1893-05-25 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

SETTING, MURDER, SUICIDE.  An uncontrollable passion for betting has been the cause of s terrible drama in Paris. M. Calve, a wine-shop keeper in the Rue de la Glaciere, had within the last 18 months indulged in betting on horse races at the Mutual Betting establishments. Having spent all his savings, and on Sunday week, being on the brink of ruin, he coil acted all the money he oould to put it on a horse he had been told was sure to win. It was his last chance, and he lost it. The horse on which he had risked everything was not even placed. M. Coupe on the Monday morning told one of his friends it was probably the last time he would see either him or his wife. During the week he repeated the same threat to several persons, and on Saturday morning the concierge noticed that at 8 o'clock his wineshop was not open. A report of firearms in H. Coupe's establishment was heard, and as the Police Commissary forced open the door another shot was fired. H. Coup 6 was found lying on the floor with • bullet in his head. He was not dead, but expired some hours after he had been conveyed to the hospital. Madame Coupe had been killed by • pistol shot in the head. In a bedroom two children were found dead, each with a bullet in its bead; the youngest child had bezn wounded, but was not dead, and the doctors at the hospital hope to be able save her life.  At hipgston-on-Tharnes Frederick Hamilton. a young labourer, has beau fined 40s. or 14 days for otealing swans' eggs from a nest on the river Mole.  Charles and Joseph Gill, builders, have each had to pay £26 6e. at Thames, with 31 guineas costa, for using in the construction of buildings in Whitectiapel mortar not made in conformity with the Metropolitan Building Act. Foxes are so numerous in the Cumberland mountains that the shepherds have been burning lamps in the fields at night to scare them, and even then many lambs have been snatched up. The foxhounds have been out doing their best, and the Blencathr* pack killed their 43rd f.m last week.  A ccutleman one day asked a shoeblack, who was cleaning his boots near a theatre in the Strand, if lie ever read the newspaper. The boy promptly replied: "Oh, yes, an; I reads the paper." "What do you read, my lad?" inquired the gentleman. "I reads all about murders, sir." A policeman ,!anding MIT, who bad beard the conversation, strolled up to the lad when the gentleman left, and "Don't you ever read the police Intelligence?" et away with you; they ain't got Dean," answered s',,arp boy.  • C•trintw's rmumsa.  The pleasant sound of children's voices falls OA the ear of the visitor as he enters; and in an openair space shaded with trees (or in winter in • large, pleasantly warmed room) be sees a ring of little children front three to five or six years of age, led 1- the teacher, and moving in rhythmic measures raund one of their little comrades, who is going hrough an energetic course of gesticulations and movements, which the others imitate while they 6ing. The movements may represent the incidents .A husbandry and harvesting, or the way in which irds build their nests, or scenes in the market and •he shop. Physical and mental exercises go together. the movements exevise the limbs and muscles, the music helps to call into activity the feelings and lie imagination, the words and the actions rouse the mind to observation, and the will is called into play by the desire and effort to imitate. A little further on iii the garden under an awning will be rods tables, at Niched which are seated some 10 children, working bu.ily. at one table stripe of :olou ed paper, straw, or feather are being plaited into all sorts of pretty patterns to make letter•cases, flats, /sc. The patterns of the elder children are their own int:cones. and their little productions are Ilciatined to be presents to father and mother, brothers and sisters, and friends. At the next table building with cubes, or bricks, has been long going on. Before each child stands a structure of his own planning, and all are listening attentively to a stnr3 the teacher is telling, in which each of the objec,s built is made to play a part. Or the children may have been counting, and comparing the sizes and shapes of the bricks. At a third table paper is hi big folded into all sorts of shapes, representing tools of different kinds, boxes, boats, and even flowers. Most of the forms which the children produce are arrived at by gradual transitions from some fundamental mathematical form,and thus first notioos of the elements of geometry are acquired not through abstrict teaching, but by observation nil original construction. But the half hour is at an el.d. and there must be no more sitting still. Spades, rakes, and watering-pots are now brought ,u, for work in the flower-beds (or, when indoors, in flower boxes), of which each child has one of its ,ovn. Vegetables and sometimes fruit, as well as fi /WPM, are cultivated by the little people in these .ouall patches of ground. In the garden, too, many c, oda of animals are kept—rabbits, gnats, dogs, hickens, pigeons—which have all to be looked after and cared for. The little ones whom we first saw engaged in their childish gymnastics now come running up to the table deserted by the eldet children, and in their turn take their seats, and begin laying together and interlacing little laths or sticks in symmetrical shapes—a sort of drawing with concrete lines.—"Oreat Educators: Froebel." Ity H. Courthope Bowen, M.A. (London: William Heinemann.)  hE