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Show OLD-WORLD ODDITIES. A racehorse owner was sued by James Lucas, ot Blackpool, England, for 140, which Included 20 for champagne- supplied sup-plied to n horse. The court struck put the champagne. A German periodical, the Gartenlaubn, offers three prizes for the best answor to tho question, which la becoming more and more serious to mothers; "How can I marry off my daughters?" A man arrested In Liinapore, Bengal, dlod beforo his case could be heard, but the local magistrate nevertheless tried and convlctod and lined the deod man, and then ordered tho heirs, his nephews, to pay the fine. The high court has reversed re-versed tho Judgment. Having taken a dislike to his daughter daugh-ter and her husband, Louis Rung, of OaBle, Switzerland, poisoned 3Q0 apple trceB in their orchard with arseilc Tho next time thoy made a pie those who ato It nearly died. Rung confessed and was sentenced to Ave years' imprison, mont. A woman In Paris claimed heavy damages dam-ages from a man who lived next oor .11 sho said that his horses made such a nolso that she could not sleep. 8he Introduced In-troduced her drcssmnkor as a witness at the trial to show that sho had lost two Inches In her walBt measure because of loss of ulcep, A court at Darlington, Engapd, ja? awarded a quarryman and h wjfq 2n damagos and costa agatust u local ir spector of tho National Society for the Troventlon of Cruelty to Children, ind a police officer for unlawfullyuntcrlrig tho plaintiffs' house to see If their children were well cared for, . LJJ |