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They how to fight their way over the bows and stru smother in the o ks’le by sturdy bufl'eting I warps the tem mother will let her daughter marry a _ man lwho knows an car from a fence-rail, if he [8 out of the ruck and ldoiug duty over a flock near by. r, and makes the best old before their has learned their difi'erenoesâ€"watch-keep- rug. Running For Life. While foraging in the vicinity of Time in the Caucasus, one morning, an Englishman .spied a herd of antelope, at which, afzcr getting within reasonable distance, be fired 1 l a most unpleasant adventure resulted, as the D v two shots, apparently wail . l , c in: But ay, that no self-respecting coa with the idea t Cocos. tip of the fin r to the affected spots. Dr. Gunts specia y remarks that potassium bi- Many peeple, es$ecially invalids, use oo~ chromate, though harmless in the way de~ same erroneous view. hf. Carlos, a French physician, has recently shown that this is an error. cocoa naturally contains, must be almost wholly removed before it can be reduced to a powdered state. Any considerable quan- tity of fat left would cause the powder] speedily tobecorne rancid. The consequence ' l is, that cocoa, powdered, is practically ana- l shots roused some savage sheepdogs who were 1 1°- The man was surrounded in a moment, and as the dogs were closing in on him a shepherl ran To Remove a Foreign Body From the Nose. The fifty per cent of fat which] at it is very nourishing. scribed, is by no means so when in pills, Many physicians recommend it with the|powders, or in solution in non-carbonated water.â€"{The Inncet. JAPAN’S PARLIAMENT. The lower [louse ls Strongly Hostile to the Executive Government. The Japanese parliament, or diet, as it scours to be officially called, has sat'fornear- 1y five months, and the chief characteristics 2*. “s. ‘ logous toskimrne-l milk, its nutritive value - of the lower house so far are a marked has- ;being even less than this familiar comest~ trhly to the government and a marvelous facility for raising delicate points of consti- tutional law and practice, the discussions on which are usually carried on with great heat to a rcsolutic: of the house, which the gov- . ‘ y ' _ on as aw \1‘ n ~ ~. ’- J-t‘yl'nâ€"r-ruwa“ “amt”..- H »-,., H. ,. , “4.4-, q. u , ._ . , . 5 ., . ,. - . 3... ._. A... ' f; zh -b] ‘ ht ‘th ' l ’ brushed out with the solution. Sometimes MURDER-BIDDER ITALY. :35 3,3,]: fig‘g ,hg'fimm‘g 1:126 HEAE iodoiorm is employed, being applied on the __ The Sons of the Sunny Peninsula Are the ' Minolta u! Homicide. Italy has an evil pro-eminence in Euro for murders. Dr. Baseo, anItalian au - ority, in his monograph on “Homicide” gives Italy 3,606 trials a year for murder, with a population of 23,000500 over 10 years of ; while France Great Briton and Irelon , Bel 'um, Austria-Hungary and Germany have ut 2,777 a- year, with a population of 128,500,000 over ten. Italy as from seven to eight times as many murdentrials as Northern and Central Europe. With a population of about one- sixth the countries mentioned, her murder trials are one-third more numerous. The Italian Satistical Society some years ago published a return in re to the num' ber of criminals in every 1 ,000 of popula- tion in the different Euro can countries. In I ' ' . . :jlz‘gsziggfiflg’s pgfgziggg figgag , toward the scene with a shout which still find steady bruins. Hing in momma Wm l further inflamed the brutes, one of whom make their way in the end surely am may 1 rushed up' n the Englishman, and bit through a“ the course and stump to wh’nlward as , one of the tendons behind the knee. they please, while others haul the weatherâ€" Dramug “'5 "3‘01"" we exasperated cam” and drink their ma. ,. test“, .1 ._ v Englishman fired at the dogs, thus for-the 3” 3 ° F o f’ 3 lutornent frceng himself. Then he rim to HADE, xo'r nuns. v ' . the shepherd, seized him by the collar, and ho; master manners are made. not born. {forced him to call them ofl', after which he and, unlike many of the brothers in the resumed his search for an antelope. The unobstructed nostril should be closed emment em'“ rams“ “'lwuy t° “ampb 0” g with the finger, and the patient made toforce accepts only .after some “men” ' But When ’ the breath out through the nose with as . the 133” mall 19“ matters “a 3t 1938?" much force as possible, keeping the mouth j reached what appeared to be a deadlock in : tightly closed In order to prevent injury l rear?“ to two KmPQYt‘ml' toplcs' ' y the constitution delegates of the gov- ; to the car, it is a good plan to make firm} . . . h 'pressure upon the openings of both cars dur- Cmm‘mt ca“ appear M ‘my mu" m 8" 6“ ling the cxpulsory effort. If this method is “Page find exlll‘d“ governmcn,“ measures' not efficient, it may be supplemented by the '1 hey are “To 1}“ble to, be quesum‘ed by the use of the rubber bag such as is used by members. l‘hrs practice has led to frequent conviction for homcide taly led the list with 8.12, Spain next with 5.83, Hun 6.09, Austria 2.24, France 1.56, Germany 1.1], and the British Isles .60. Hungary, it will be seen, stands third, and our coal re- gions are only too wellaware of the tendency toward homicide in this class of our po" ula- tion. The most dangerous quarter in aria is that occupied by Italians. Stabbing cases occur every day in English seaport towns government service, have to rise by energy, = pluck, meritâ€"why enumerate them ?~â€"by a l owning. nthe stoke hole, however, one leaves behind the formal and mathemati- cal, and sees the picturesque with all its dirt unvamished, with all its din and clangor unsubducd. Under the splintcriug silver of the electric lamps cones of light illuminate great spaces garishly and leave others in unbroken masses of shadow. Through bulkhead doors the red and gold of the furnaces checker the rocking floor, and the trcmulous roar of the ca ed fires dominates the sibilant splatter of t e steam. l Figures nearly naked, gritty and black with coal, and pasty with ashes and soaked with sweat, come and go in the blazing light. and in the half gloom, and seem like nightmares from fantastic tales of demonology. \thn the furnace doors are opened thirsty tongues of fire gush out, blue spirals of gas spin and reel over the bubbling mass of fuel, and great sheets of flame suck half- burnt carbon over the quivering fire wall into the llues. With averted heads and smoking bodies the stokcrs shoot their slice bars through the melting hillocks, and twist Ho wandered fruitlessly about for many . . t I 2 hours among the hills, and finally stumbled uudred r uahtres the wond 18 better for 1 upon a, campfire, round which three ’l‘artars ' |were seatedâ€"among them his friend of the A i 'l‘urlars made for their reluctant guest. 1 morning. immediately given, which, not being accept- cd, took at once the form of a command. signal-cry was sounded, while two of the An invitation to join them was “ My first thought,” says the Edglishman, “ was to stand and fight, for their intensions were obviously hostile. But unless I meant to use my rifle, my chance against the four â€"for another had now appearedâ€"would evidently be poor ;so with a good start I took to my heels and ran. “ Up one bill and over its brow into the valley that separated it from another no bigger than itselfâ€"from that to another and then to a third, the chase went on, the pursuers growing in numbers each time I looked back, until, when quite blown, I stoppsd to see whether my rifle would in- timidate them, they had increased to over a dozen. . . . . - l s . ‘ .. specialists in treating the ears, and known S‘Ju‘d‘ ’19“ delegates refusmg to answer 9‘“ as Politzer’s bag. . . f . . pane“ makes an expmsory eflort, stmn l benvun the house and the government, took . . 1 l. u ' ' ' . compressron rs made upon the bag at tho ; P‘t’w 0“ “"5 quesm’": and now 1‘5 ha been s. s ‘ . - i . . same time. Any substance which can be “Mm mam“ m “Other Shf‘Pe' A prOIonged removed without surgical aid, can be dis. , debate on the budget havmg been concluded U - by the closure, 'ust as the division on the 10d°edby “113 meflmd' main question ans about to be taken the delpgate from the foreign office claimed the ,"' , . . Boiled Milk. kyrgstficspeak, as delegates could speak at The increasing frequency of tuberculosis 1’- ll03‘83le Speak“? When h“ 00"“ “017 be in cows, and the constant infection of milk - answered, and the house voted against bear- with microbes, by its contamination with I {111; him- The following day the Prime min' dirt and excreta. through the carelessness of 15W? himself appeared in the tribune and dairymeu, renders it important that milk declared that the refusal to hear the delegate should only be eaten after having been steri. \Vfls unconstitutional, and that the house lized by boiling: German housewives always Objecmd t0 the rights given to government boil milk as soon as it is received from the delegates the Pl'olml' course was to make a cow. By this means the germs are killed in relll‘escntalion 0“ the “Week. and: if neces- their growth in the milk, and their produc- 391% have that Pl‘OViSion 0f the constimtion tion of poisonous substances is prevented. mnended- The house appeared dismeliued It; is the custom of the Sanitarium, to boil to take this View, bull the delegate With‘ u A shot, from the rifle did stop them for {all milk used upon the tables of both patients drew: ObseIViDg that as the Prime miniatel‘ the bottom of the hill from which I had and tarp them until they undulate like fired, 1 heard them coming on again. And serpents:x The iron tools blister their hands, the roaring furnaces scar their bodies; their chests heave like those of spent swimmers, their eyes tingle in parched socketsâ€"but work they must, therein no escape, no holiday in this maddening limbo. Steam must be kept, or perhaps A CRGEL RECORD MUST BE LOWERED. Facing the furnaces, the hollow upscoop- ing of the stokcr’s shovel echoes stridently on the iron floor, and these speed-makers pile coal on coal until the fire fairly riots, and, half blinded, they stagger backward for a cooling respite. But if is only a. mo- ment at the best, for their tnskmasters watch and drive them, and the tale of fur- naces must do its stint. The noise and uproar are deafening ; coal trimmers trundle their barrows unccztsingly from bunker to stoke hole, or, if the ship’s motion be too great for the wheels, carry it in baskets, and during the four long hours there is no rest for those who labor here. First-class ships muster from 12 to 15 men in each watch, and all of these are shipped as seamen. Of course the majority are such only in name, though there is always a definite numbcrof sailors among them. In- deed, to fly the blue flag at least 10 of the crew, in addition to the captain, must be enrolled in the naval reserve, and to be an A B there one must hand, reef and steer deftly. Those are the people who in port. stand by the ship ; that is, those who take, us requir- ed by law, their discharges in Liverpool on the return voyage and continue to work on board at fixed wages per day while the ship refits and loads. All hands, from the skip- cr to the scullion’s mate, must ship at the ginning of each runâ€"must “sign articles” as it is calledâ€"before a board of trade shipping master. SAFEOUARDS THROW‘N ABOUT JACK. As the law has always regarded Jack as “ particularly in need of its protection, be- cause he is particularly exposed to the wiles of sharpcrs,” great stress is laid in these articles upon his treatment, and there- fore they exhibit in detail the character of the voyage. the wages, the quantity and quality of the food, and a dozen other par- ticulars which evidence the safeguards thrown about these “ wards of the admir- alty ” by a quasi~patema1 government. Jack knows all this, and be sure he stands up most boldly and assertively, at tunes wrth o. great deal of unnecessary swagger and bounce, for all the articles-â€"“ his arti- cles ”â€"â€"-allow him. The boatswaiu selects the ship’s company, and the seu~birds flutter on board, usually a few hours before the vessol hauls into the stream. Thcy fly light. thcsc western ocean sailors, and their kits are such as beggars would laugh at. Generally they are in debt to the Suilors’ Homeâ€"they pay 17 bob a week for their grub und lod 'ugâ€"aud many of them just touch their a vance money, as a uarautee of rccei t, and then see most of it isuppear, formed; fairly furnished, into the superin- tendent’s monk-be . But they are p ilosophers in their and way, and are apt, if they find themselves safely on board With a couple of shillings in their 'bsccy pouches, with upon, an extra shirt, a panmkin, a box of matches and a bar-of soa , to feel that the anchor cannot be trippei too soon, as they are equipped for an adventure anywhere, even to the “ Hinjies, beast or west " as their doleful ditty announces. 'rns MRILY, KISKRABLB \VATCII. Leaving out of question the res nsibilit of the watch, t and measure toga hysicaly when on are bowling and spray is flying, and (2le are shooting over the weather bulwnr . and the ship is slamming along, wallowingin the hollows, or wriggl- in on zenith-seeking hillows. tmaybeatnight, whenyoueannot see a ship’s humour], and around you threatening ‘ and death, are a damn vol-clutter: be when theiceis moving and the to berg: lie in your path. way. Then these dreadful midd e watches, when. after a hard tour of duty, on are roused out of a comfortable bed on jump- emhauawakenedlntotnechillandmiury here I began to feel that things were really extremely serious for me. “I had killed their doc, and had, there- fore, little mercy to expect from them. I was dead beat. and my *bittcn leg made running all the more difficult. I had only half a dozen cartridges with me, and at the best. I could not hope to make a. good fight of it, so poorly furnished with ammunition, against so many rascals with their blood up, in a. p’ace where there was no stone or bush ‘ to get behind. l “ But; here a double saved me. At the bottom of the little hill was a wide earth- crack; into this I jumped, whilst my pur- suers were still on the other side of the summit, and following the course of the chasm I doubled round the base of the bill a little way and then waited. Yelling like demons, the Tartars came over the hill, and to my infinite relief, supposing me probably to have just topped the next; rising ground, redoubled their exertions to overhaul me in the direction which they fancied I had taken. “ The moment they were safely past me, I turned and ran back on my truck for some distance, and then made for the plains. I am thankful to say that there I found my friends and the horses, and heard no more of either dogs of Torture." Uhivalruos Devotion- At the most extensive aquarium in Eng- land, the Brighton Zoo, the female lobster recently cast her shell. She screwed herself up together on the toes and tail, and sudden- ly bent her body. Snap went the shell in its centre, and the case of the book came away in one piece. The claws were her next care, and she worked away at them for a long time. It was a proceeding of extreme delicacy, considering that all the flesh of the great claw had to be passed through the small base During the operation one claw came off 8.1- togcthcr, and this must have seemed to the lobster Indy a serious misfortune, as it Will not grow to its full size again until the sec- ' 0nd year. The tail and legs gave very little trouble, and the body, when thus undressed, proved to be of a pale blue. The shell-casting over, the lobster sank on the sand, and this action seemed asignal for the attack of every creature in the tank. The defencless victim bade fair tosuccumb to the fury of her enemies, when the male lobster suddenly came to the rescue. Stand- over his shell-less better half, he fought her assailants relentlessly. Day and night did he watch over her, until her shell was sufficient- ly hardened to protect her in fighting her own battles. When this he. py moment arrived, be de- liberately picket up the old claw, broke it in his nippers, and ate the meat. He then dug a hole in the sand, placed in it the brok- en bits of shell, buried them, and piled a number of small stones above the grave. *6.“ Frozen {3,000 Feet D eep. For many years scientists have been per- plexed over the phenomena of a certain well at. Yakutsk, Siberia. As long ago as 18:28 a Russian merchant began 20 sink this noted well, and after working on it for three years gnve it up as a bad job, having at that time sunk it to a depth of thirty :‘cc: without get- ting through the frozen grotuul. He com- municated these facts 1.;- tlzc Russian Acad- emy of Science, which sent men to take charge of the di ging operations at the won. derful wcll. ' hese scientific gentlemen toiled away at their work for several years, but abandoned it when a depth of 882 feet had been reached, with the earth still frozen as hard as a rock. In 1843 the condom had the torn rature of the soil at the si es of the wal taken at various depths. From the data thus obtained the mine to the startling conclusion that t e ground was frozen to a depth exceeding 6,000 feet. Although it is known to meteorologists that the lowest known temperature is in that. re- gion of Siberia, it is conceded that not even that rigorous climate could force frost to such a great depth below the surface. After figuring on the subject for over a quarter of aoentu , geologists have at last come to the mansion that the great frozen valley of the Lena River was dupodtod, frozen just as it is found to-day, during the great grindinguponoftheglnctalepoch. a. moment or two ; but before I was well cl and helpers, For some years heretofore it had said all he wanted to say he need not has been the custom to boil the milk during SWIV- thc spring, summer, and fall months, but it The second topic is much more serious. is now the rule to boil it during all seasons The committee on the budget ll-ld cut down of the year. It is necessary to take this pre- the estimates in the most extraordinary caution in addition to using the greatest care way ; offices are abolished (including that only milk from healthy cows is-used. ,legations abroad), the staff or departments The idea. that boiling milk renders it in any are reduced to a mere fraction of their num- degree less wholesome as food, is an error; bcr, sub-departments and bureaus are swept borled milklis really more digestible than away altogether, and the salaries of the unborled mllk. officials remaining, beginning with the prime minister himself. are reduced some- â€" times to a third of the present amounts. To Stop The Nosebleed- The sixty-seventh article of the constitution Bleeding from the nose occurs in the PTOVidCS thatalargf‘Portion OfIthe exl’endi' majority of cases either from the sides of WW: Classed ‘15 " fixed exP9nd1t‘lPesr’ 5113‘“ the septum, or the outer walls of the front 1’0” be reduced by the (hell Without like portion of the nose. All that, is necessary concurrence of the government, and ordin- to stop the bleeding is to make p1‘essureiance_“"l3 Passed definmg “195° fixed ex' upon the bleeding point, This can be done ; penditures. The lower house, however, has by continuous Pressure with the thumb and i resolvedthat tins ordinance 18 ultra Vires, finger. The pressure should be applied from 9 “Id 11?“ mte‘tpretefl thls Clause 0f the 00”” above downward, and the nose Should be ; strtution for 1tse1f m a. sense wholly opposed grasped close up to the “bridge,” or bony ' to that; of the government, and In a such a part. Firm compression should be continu- way {lg ‘30 lmjsely “Educ? the “ems 0f 9’" ed for at least ten or fifteen minutes, and Pendltlu‘ex W1C“ Wthh it 1103 110 Power to when it is removed, the nose Should not be deal Without the concurrence of the latter. cleared, as this would remove the clot, and 30th the Prime “‘lnlSter and the minismr so Start the bleeding, afresh An ingenious of finance delivered Vigorous addressesto the courtry doctor keeps a, wooden Clothespin house on the unconstitutional nature of its to use for this Purpose, and an eminent proceedings, and the munster of finance Physician asserts that in twenty years, | declared that the government would, if the practice he has not found a case which (lid house Permsted 1“ Its course, announce Its not, readily yield to the employment of this dissent and take other measures provided simple means. by the constitution. The situation is regarded by the native The Dangers of Dirt. appeared at the time the mail left to be no An Italian Physician has recently been prospecti-f the house altering its posrtrop. investigating the dust gathered from the “18,h°use,°fpemhad “0t yet come to “"3 pavement 0f the barracks. He in- " congldemmon 0f the matter- oculated fifteen guinea pigs with . "“""”+'â€"‘â€"- this dust, all of which died with tetan-l Insects at Sea. us, or lockjaw, within a Week. It is quite, Birds of passage make their way across possible that house dust may be the cause; wide stretches of water with instinct, not of lock jaw, rather than nerve irritation, as I only in regard to their course but in regard has been heretofore supposed. It seems, in to the proper season as well. The finding of fact, probable that this disease is due to in- flies and butterflies a long way out at sea is fection of the wound with dirt from the f perhaps hardly more wonderful, but to most ground, floors, or other similiar sourcos. Ap- 9 readers the fact is not so well known. \Vhat ropos of the subject we quote the following 5 Mr. Collingwood found to he the habit of paragraph from tthanitary Inspectorzâ€" [ such insects in Chinese waters may be “ This may all be taken as again cmphasiz- ‘ observod over large areas of tropic sens. ing the importance of cleanliness, and of the l \Vhen we had stood out some thirty miles danger from dirt. Modern surgery has! from the land, a pla no of flies overtook us. learned the fateful significance of filth, the ‘ The cabin was so ful of them that the beams dire consequences which may follow a trace were blackened. Common black house-flies of dirt upon the hands, beneath the nails, they were, for the most part, with, however, upon the bandages ; and outside the medical a good sprinkling of large green flies. \thre ranks it should be common knowledge, not; they could have come from was a mystery ; only that wounds are to be guarded from any but they were a terrible nuisance, and n.1- possible source of pollution, but that infec- a though we swept off hundreds in anet, their tion comes not. always directly from sick to ! numbers were not sensibly diminished. well. The half-washed hands of the nurse ; Another singular circumstance was, that; may carry the arm of typhoid fever from ; although no land was in sight, large dragon- the patient to rev own food or to that of i flies repeatedly flow across the ship; and I others ; the hand soiled with tuberculous l observed a. large, dark butterfly flit across expectoration needs more than a. careless 1 in the direction of the land, without stop- washing to free it from the possibility of ping to rest on the ship. At this time the carrying infection; the emanations from a nearest land was the Chusan Islands, fully case of scarlet fever or diphtheria thirty miles 00‘. may be absorbed by the milk placed tool Itis by no means an uncommon circum- near the sick room, and so carry diseaseand ‘ stance to see butterflies launch themselves death to distant homes. off one shore for a short aerial excursion to _ the opposite shore, half a mile or a mile dis- . . taut, without the least hesitation; and when Treatment Of Diphthem‘ we were anchored in harbor, as at Ke-luug, Dr. Guntz, of Dresden, has had great. ' they were constantly flying through the rig- success in the treatment of diphtheria with ging nO rapidly that it was impossible to bichromate of potash in water containing ! catch them, for they never rested upon the carbonic acid, which he has found by num- ,‘ship. Under these circumstances, they usu- erous experiments on animals, as well as in ’ ally fly low, in a straight line, and near the the course of extensive clinical observation, l water. to be entirely harmless. For an adult 600 i ' rammes (about a pint) are ordered per , In an article in The Forum for May Sir diem, in which are dissolved three centiâ€" Roderick Cameron of New York draws a grammes (about half a grain) of potassium . brilliant picture of the future of tltc new bichromafe. The whole quantity is directed l Commonwealth of Australia. He says that to be taken in about half a dozen doses, re- ’ already it produces more than one-fourth of garding which it is important to observe the wool o the worldâ€"twice as much as that they must not be taken on an empty the United States. It produces one-half stomach ;a little milk or gruel should there- the tin of the world, and there is no fore be swallowed before each dose. Chil- l precious metal that has not been found drcn, of course, take smaller uantities, ac- within its domain. Its coal fields on the cording to age. They can e given the ' coast, convenient for export toall countries, medicine in a tnmber mixed with somefrnit are inexhaustible. The inward and out- simp, and theydonot generally object toit. ward shipping of one port alone exceeds At the commencement of the disease Dr. 2,500,000 tons per annum, and the value of Guntz washes the month out with a l r i its commerce with Great Britain alone ex- cent. solution of perman note of potash 2 coeds £100,000,000 sterling. The private containing 0.1 per cent. 0 thymol, or with l wealth of the United States is £39 r in- a corrosive snbhmate solution of the stre h l habitant, of England £354, of ranoe of l in 3,000, taking care, inthe latter case, 3 £25.14, of Germany £18.14, and of Austria that none is swallovVed, and that the mouth ’ £16.6. The private wealth of Australia ex- iswellrinsedwith Water afterward. Inthe’eeedsonyof these, being 548 per inhabi- case of young children the pharynx mustbe_,tunt~ The nozzle of this is;trcu..n questions the house calling for new placed in the unobstructed nostril, which is ‘ delf‘i-l“}°,3' and the gm‘emmePt S‘lPPm'ting tightly fixed to the nostril, the“ as the their delegates. The first serious difference There were violent objections to press as one of great gravity, but. there , and always among Italian seamen. Lately Italy seems to be the only country in the world where the rural districts furnish more than their proportion of crime. Only one- third of the population of Italy occupied with work, or 8,173,382 out of 22,551,156, were in agriculture in 1881 ; but one-half the inmates in Italian prisons, or 3,720 out of 7,598, came from farming to their cells. The knife is everywhere worn and every- where used in Italy among the working classes. No greater kindness would be done our Italian population than to deprive all immigrants on landing of concealed weapons of this characterâ€"a perfectly lawful stop. The systematic arrest and conviction of every person in our streets carrying a knife con- cealed would do much to check all crimes. If the knife habit were broken up among Italians murders would decrease. How People Starve in London. Mr. Coronchaxteropcned an inquir at the Seaman’s Chapel, Ratcliffe, on the ma 0 child of Thomas Smith, a curman out of employ, of 1 Ashley Place, Stcpney Causeway, E. The case revealed shocking dcstitution through want of work. Smith stated that throu rh The slackness in trade he had only gotodd jo s from time to time. All his furniture was sold to buy bread for his wife and family. For the past six weeks the only food they had was bread. On \Vednesday last he got; a day’s work, but broke down exhausted after an hour’s trial. On his' return home he found his wife had prematurely given birth to the deceased on the bare floor. There was no doctor to attend his wife, and the child after ei ht hours expired. He applied to the paris to bury it. An official visited the house, and his wife and his eldest child were removed next day by order of the doctor. He never received any relief from the parish, but now he was under the care of the doctor, and was getting medicine, but. no food. The poor follow lcoked so wretched that the Coroner gave him two relief tickets. James Berry, relieving offi- cer, corroborated all the poor man had said. He found the family in a dreadful state of destitution and semi-starvation, and took immediate steps to relieve the mother and the eldest child. The Coroner’s oflicer said that there was not a stick of furniture in Smith’s place. and that when he gave them some food there was no person strong enough to cook it. The jury adjourned the hearin g of the case for a week, and wont in a body to view the state of the rooms oc- cupied by Smith. V ‘â€"-â€".â€"-â€"â€"â€"- Hoaxng the Fortune-Hunters. The New York Times, in an article, says that the pursuit of enormous but shadowy ‘- unclaimed estates in Europe by crcdulous persons, despite all the remedial efforts of the press, and of diplomatic and Consular oflicers abroad, is an industry that survives, and agencies for the encouragement of the pursuit flourish exceedingly. A notable in- stance is given 111 the James Wood estate. In this case 200 heirs met at Philadelphia and appointed a committee to look after the interests of all, which were assessed at con- siderable sums. One man. who had a little sense remaining, refused to contribute to the inquiry fund, and wrote to Gloucester on- closing 63 6d for a copy of the will. Ho found that J amcs Woo left less than £1,- 000,000 instead of $316,000,000, which the agency averrcd was lying unclaimed at. the Bank of England. Mr. \Vcod was a bunker, and he left the money in the hands of ex- ecutors. He left £200,000 to the Corporation of Gloucester, and distributed £150,000 amongst seven persons, while the remainder was given unconditionally to his executors and his heirs in equal parts. The whole thing is a flagrant fraud on the part of the promoters, who made money from the as- sessmcnt. ~-- 7 â€"«-~+ Extraordinary Case of Somnembulism. The Daily Telegraph's Paris correspons dent says :â€"-An extraordinary case of som- nambulism is reported from one of the rural districts. According to the accounts which has reached Paris, the patient is a. young man whose legs have been completely pare.- lysed for some time. In his usual health, he is unable to move without the help of crutches, but when the fit is on him he can walk long distances without the slightest assistance. A few nights ago he got up and started for a neighbouring village, followed by some of his relatives, who never lose si ht of him when he is in this condition. 0 arrived without misadventure at the house of a friend, knocked at the door, and asked for refreshment. After having rested fore. few moments he returned home, and, as it was still very early in the morning, he sat down on a bench and waited until the people came out of their houses. He then went to bed, and awokca few hours afterwards with- out feeling the least fatigue, though he had walked more than ten miles, nor had he the slightest remembrance of tlfe~exprxlition which he had undertaken. The case is said to be exciting the utmost interest through- out the Department, and to be the subject of universal discussion. The Russian Bacon Company, with a capital of £150,000, has been formed is London to work for 21 ears on sconceuion. grant by Russia to an gush syndicate of the government curing ry at Grins. It is stated that freight to England will be 9d._ per cwt. cheaper than the row from CW . AAJ A" 2'.) ' 1‘43 AAAIAK .AAA M .mn....â€"...».xq WW wm~nfln “~4‘vv‘4h" W who-v“-