Weekly News. — 1891-10-15 (Blandford, Dorset, England)

HEARTLESS SPOUSE.  *Madame, that is my husband's portrait which you have there!" "Not at all! it is the picture of mine!" was thegreply. The situation was certainly rather awkward, to say the least. The scene took place in the drawing-room of a house in Paris a few days ago. The mistress, says the Daily Telegraph Paris correspondent, had been informed that a lady, who was a perfect stranger to her, had called and wanted very much to see her. When she entered the room she found the visitor standing before the counterfeit presentment of the man to whom she had been married a few months previously, but who had disappeared from view three days after the ceremony with the dowry, amounting to £4OO, which she had brought to the conjugal hearth, and the first word which she heard denoted a prior claim to the hand and heart uf that erratic individual. She requested her intruder to sit down and unfold her tale, and the result of this parley was that the two ladies were soon on their way to the ni meat police-station, where they lodged a formal complaint against the man whose ideas had somehow become so mixed that he bad married them both, one after the other. The first event had taken place at Odessa about three years ago, wife No. 1 contributing a good round sum to the minage. For a little time all went well, but, unluckily, the husband one fine day took it into his heal to remove, bag and baggage, from the shores of the Euxine to Paris, and soon after hls arrival he set to work to make ducks and drakes of the family fortune, and succeeded so thoroughly in his selfimposed task that in the course of a few months the houeehald was penniless. The unfortunate partner of his joys and sorrows then returned with her two small children to her relatives at Odessa, leaving her pleasure-loving husband to carry oa the struggle for life on the tanks of the Seine as best he could. His wife and offspring being well out of the way, the man cast about for some means of putting money into his pocket, and having made the acquaintance of a young lady of whom he became speedily enamoured, and learning, moreover, that she had to her credit a dot of £4OO, he made her an offer of his hand and heart and was accepted. A devoted friend arranged all the preliminaries—for a substantial consideration and the Couple were united in the bonds of wedlock in this metropolis, the ill-used spouse being, of course, in blissful ignorance of the fact of the existence of wife No. 1. The husband removed from his old abode to new quarters, and all traoe of him was soon lost, as he decamped promptly, ia company with his ally, not forgetting the 10,000 f; with which the object of his later affections had presented him. Meanwhile his real wife was fighting a hard battle on the coasts of the Black Sea. Appeals to her husband meeting with no response, as all her letters were tnated with contemptuous indifference, she one day made up her mind to come to Paris and ascertain how matters stood. On her arrival at the house in which she had dwelt during her sojourn in the metropolis, she found that the man had gone away without leaving an address, but by dint of patient search she contrived at length to track him to the abode in which the few days had been spent with her innocent rival. On questiening the eoaei,eye she was amazed to hear that lie actually had been ma•ried again, and that the deserted wife was living upstairs in sore distress, much wondering whether he would ever reappear on the scene. Thus prepared, the lady ascended the staircase boldly, and commenced proceedings in the manner already described. 'the result of the investigation set on foot by the authorities shews that the heartless individual who has thus wrecked the lives of these tip women betook himself to Germany after his depaiture from Paris, bet so far no clue as to his whereabouts has been obtained.  A despatch fr: m Ainsworth, British Columbia, says that that town is being depleted of its inhabitants owing to a wonderful silver "strike" at Slocan, 18 miles west of Kaslo, on the Kootenai Lake, where there is said to be a large body of solid ore 16 to 25 feet wide and a mile and a half long, assaying 100 to 360 ounces of silver besides lead.  A verdict of **Suicide whilst in a state of temporary insanity" was returned on Thursday at Woodgreen by a coroner's jury as the result of an exhaustive inquiiy into the death of Rosalie Wilhelmina Sanders, 19 years of age, a merchant's daughter, who shot herself dead with a revolver because the attentions of a Mr. Cassini had been set aside by her mother in favour of a Mr.Cuthbert. Mr. Riter: "Confound this paper. It has published one of my articles without giving me credit." Mrs. Riter: "Well, dear, that is only what you must expect. Both the butcher and the grocer have refused to give you any more credit."  Laura: "How do you like my new dress?" Jennie: "The sleeves are absurdly full." "That's done in self-defence." "What do you mean ?" “That drendlul, absurd Tommy Knoodle calls every other evening, and I must have somewhere to laugh in."