Year: 1875

The China mail brings news of the
death of the Empress Dowager, Kea
Shun, widow of the late Emperor Tung
Chih. 1t was reported soon after the
last Emperor's death that his young
widow had committed suicide, but ae-
cording to the Pekin Gazette her death
did not take place until the 9th of
March, The China Mail says "Her
fate has been, indeed, an unhappy one.
Welded at the age of fifteen she became
a widow at seventeen, and since the
death of her husband has, if native re-
ports are to be believed, led most
miserable life. She is said to have re-
fused all food for some days previous
to her death, and to have sunk from ex-
ha lstion. Whether these reports be
true or not, We can easily believe that
her position WAS a most unenviable one.
At best she was condemned TO perpetual
seclusion for many years to come, while
she was exposed to intrigues which, in
view of her expected confinement, might
have had her death and that of the
possible child as their object. Death
was probably a merciful relief" The
Shanghai Courier and Gazette says that
the early death of the empress Is en-
tipely in accordance with the national
idea of what is most highly fitting for a
wife so bereaved. It is not impossible
that her memory will acquire a sanctity
in Chinese eyes from the fact of her
having followed her lord within 80 short
a period the event is already attributed
to her regrets, as it is said that she
suffered from no definite disease.


The Columbus (Ga.) Enquirer tells
of two families in Stewart county whose
lives were saved by gentleman obey
ing a presentiment he could not resist.
He had a foreboding that a storm would
visit that section, and that his house
would be in its path. he told others
of it, but they only laughed at him,
saying he was frightened from reading
and hearing the accounts of the late
cyclone. He gave eredence to the
thought, which would not go down at
the bidding, and dug hole near the
house. He had no sooner finished 1t
than the storm did come. and barely
had he and his family sought refuge
therein than the tornado tore his house
TO pieces. All IN the hole in the ground
escaped.


"A seventeen year Old girl was lately
brou hit from Alabama as q witness, to
testify in a court IN CaTrolltoD, Ga.
She was called 10 the stand, and sp-
peared IN it with a large navy revolver
buekled to her waist. The court and
LAWYERS gszed upon her in admiration
She passed her direct examination with
very positive utterance. The lawyer OF
the opposite side was a we'll known bul-
lier OF witnesses. Fun was anticipated
in the cross examination, but the brow
beating attorney handled her teDderly.
He vas exceedingly careful not to ap'
proach the line Of coarseness or 1mpolite-
ness. His change of tactics was re-
markable. It was q moral lesson IN
court.


WHITE AErs AT ST. HELENA.-White
ants we're introduced into the island in
| 1910 in some timber from a slave ship.
| MIR. McTlachlan has identified the
species terBles tenUis, Hagen, peculiar
! 70 South America. The mischief which
il has done is almost incredible, and it
| appears to have simply gradually de-
/ stroyed the whole Of jamestown A
considerable portion Of the books IN the
public library, especially theological
| literature, was devoured by them, and
/ the whole Of the interior would be de-
/ stToyed without the exterior Of the
volumes seeming otherwise than intact.


"A young lady living in the northern
part of Indianapolis has, through 8
little simple vanity, nearly if not quite,


destroyed her eyesight. A few days


ago she painted her cheeks with the
! red eoloring matter OF some cinnamon


candy and vent TO party. During the
| evening her cheeks became very much


swollen azd the poison soon after com
municated itself to her eyes She be


came quite blind, and, though receiving
the best medical attention the clty
could afford, there seemed 20 be LITTLE


hope that she would ever regain her eye
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