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Show Nh Hail to Vall tho TVt. A curious case of epecial ink-rest to elderly spinsters and luvers of house jiets iat shortly to come before the Berlin courts. A young woman was engaged as companion to an old lady at, Btated wages, but ran away from her p'.tieo two days after entering service. Her mi.stre.su procured her arrest nncbT the law that a servant mutt give due no lice before leaving her situation, but the police, after hearing (lie girl's statement, told the lady that she could not compel the girl to return, and could only claim damages in the civil court. For the girl stated, ami her statements have been Jiroved true, that on entering the huly's flat four iininenso dogs jiimji--d at her, although they did not do her tiny harm. Iu 1 lie next room another big dog, with a litter of jiup.-, met her gaze, while the third room was tenanted by at. leant three dozen different varieties of birds. Tho kitchen of the old lady was given over to cats, mid the girl's sleeping room wa,s converted into a temporary bosjiital for invalid members of tho animal worhL ! "The old lady," said the girl, "was I very kind to me, but as my duties con- sisted in washing all the dogs daily, and I had to sluiro my bed with half a dozen dogs and cats, 1 was obliged to mn away ; to avoid sickness." London Telegraph. |