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Show FOREIGN SCRAPS. The London Gazette is the oldest newspaper, printed in English, iu the world. An Englishman has been adjudged two months on the treadmill for tearing tear-ing out a friend's side whiskers in a scuffle. The official executioner of Paris suggests sug-gests knocking criminals on the head with an iron mace as a pleasanter and neater mode of killing them than by the guillotine. English journals are picking out cases of crime through Eutrland and beading them "Outrages in Ireland !" The Spanish authorities in Havana are making brave warfare on women. Ladies of culture and refinement are handcuffed and led through the streets to the home for fallen women, where they are lodged. A boot which hung outside the cellar cel-lar door of a Berlin shoemaker was stolen. In the afternoon was ibund a note on the doorstep, as follows : "If you do not hang out the other boot, so that we can steal it also, we will seek it in the night, or else break all your windows." The En nch society for tho protection protec-tion of children off-rs a prize of from five hundred to a thousand fraii'-s for the best answer to the question, What are the cause; of the excessive mortality mortal-ity of children in the first year of life, and what means can be applied for its decrease ? The dowager marchioness of Qar or.s-bury or.s-bury has written a letter to the Limerick Limer-ick papers urging the people to agitate agi-tate for repeal as a panacea for all the ills of Ireland. Her ladyship declares. '"I am a Catholic but I am not a Papist," meaning thc-teby that she is not a Catholic of the Cardinal Cullen political type. Mr. P'Arcy Irvine, of Castle Irvine, county Fermanagh, a foolish Orangeman, Orange-man, who has gone clean crazy over Gladstone's church disestablishment, and has traveled around the country armed to the teeth with revolvers, besides be-sides being accompanied by a body guard sitni.arly fortified, pot into the hands of the police at Inniskillcn, ami after a fierce struggle was lodged in jaiL On giving bail in ?l2u.0"'J for his peaceable behavior, be was again lib-1 lib-1 erated. |