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Show Luuru Tiullin hus rci uniod to Vans to , ipond the rL-imiinJcr of his days there, j It h now estimated that ,2ilper-; wnx lost lluir livi'i hy the iVshtio 1 lire. Tt is -id tlmt li-ni'!t lix allowed himself to '-3 inro!!ed as a memher of id Uranyc IjoJ.ci1. A French Canadian, with Iwvnty-lour Iwvnty-lour children, jassed ihrouclt Sioux irily last week, hound for Pakota. Mr. Paine, a convict at Michigan city, Indiana, endured the pain of cut- I ting his ley olf in order to e-e:i.e haid labor. 1 James Viefc, tlic liochciler (N. V.) horticulturist, has heen made a corrcs- ; pondiiig member of iho iioyal llorti- ! cultural society, J)udou. i The Southern Minnesota railroad enmpany is about to introduce the use : of peat as fuel for its locomotives in sections where timber is scarce. lloehcfort is to he confined on the Island of Sainte Marguerite, l'rovencc, and will, it is said, occupy the same cell in which the man of the iron mask was immured. 'YU is the heading of a paragraph in a Western paper, recording a suicide: sui-cide: "lie blew his head off. JJillious, ; poor and disheartened The gun-muz- ; zle in his mouth, his toe on (he trigger, and up goes his hair." Mr. C. Martin, of Hrownfield, Me., lias been insured in six diiVcrcut lire companies, in as many years, all of which havo failed belure the term of insurance expired. The last, thc l'ut-nain, l'ut-nain, was broken down by the Chicago lire. Mr. A. Crawford, of Connecticut, has a lUO-acrc farm which is located in three towns and the same number of counties, viz: Chatham, in Middlesex county; Colchester, in Mew Ijondou; and Marlboro', iu Hartford. The slave trade, it is reported, is still conducted iu Morroeco, and a resident resi-dent of Tangier, in that county, writes that African children arc exposed for pale every market day in connection with the traiHc in caitlo and agricultural agricul-tural produce. Paul B. Du Cliaillu, who hag just returned home, says that, as one clfeot of tho rascality of the JNcw York city government, even the Swedish peasants taunt the traveller with the remark that $00,000,000 have been stolen, and that no one will be punished for it. A Mckcnios execution recently look place at Jauer, in Silesia. A youtig girl who had murdered her child was to be beheaded. When she was led out sho fought desperately with the executioner, who was not able to kill her until ho had &tunned her by a blow on the head with the handle of his axe. A hotel-ruiiiicr in PelruU, named Hugh Foley, while su tiering under dc-'i lirium tremens, attempted to commit suicide in-iliree different ways (he other oth-er day. First, hy ihvowiiijr himself under a railroad train; second, by swallowing swal-lowing glasr-; and third, hy throwing himself in the river. Me failed in ail. The storm whic'i began at Leavenworth, Leaven-worth, Kansas, on the 17th n!t., was of unusual .severity, and in the western part of the Slate was the most disastrous disas-trous which has occurred for years. Many herders were frozen, together with their catllc. Five dead bodies were brought into Hays cily on the 22d, audit is feared that a jarly of buffalo hunters, twenty-live or thirty in number, have perished. The speaker of the Uritish house of commons enjoys a magnificent residence, resi-dence, furnished and kept in repair at tho public expense, aud containing one hundred rooms, lie receives a aa'ary of 25,000, and on retirement is always created a viscount, and has a pension of $20,000, which on his death passes to his oldest son. Oddly enough, neither nei-ther the late nor the present speaker, although both married mcu, has any son to inherit these good things. |
