... VALTABLE DISCOVERT FO THE HAIR.—If your hair is J TURNING rev or white, or falling off, use THE MEXICAN «^IR *0r poritivtln restore in every aie f HVR FT0 ITS CN,OUR WITHOUT Searing the 5 H V I MCST ESTORERS IT makes the hair 17 hair hi WEL1 AS promoting the growth ot tha V fair on ba spot*, where the T'land re not decaved Ask ov'H FV RV'1S('F°R 7H?A,M:EXICA? HAIR EEVBWKV' PREPAR^ PV I* PLL ...

... AN AMERICAN TRAINING SHIP ASHORE. A telegram was received on Friday, at Portsmouth Dockyard, asking for assistance for the Constitution, American training frigate, which had gone ashore off Swanage, and the Malta tug was sent off immediately. The Constitution which was a sixty-one gun frigate in the time of the American War, and engaged with the Java, an English thirty-two gun ship, Captain ...

... Divorces are not allowed in Russia, but a marriage can be annulled for informality and so divorces are pretty frequent. It is only a question of money, like most Russian things. In Lithuania and some parts of Little Russia it is the custom for the bride's nearest relative to give her a slap on the face at the moment of leading her to the priest, the object of this being to establish, in case ...

... THE BATTLE IN KHOST. T1--8 Standard correspondent with Gen. Roberts in K gives details of the fight on Tuesday week be- tween. the little force under the command of General Eouerta and a combination of Mongols, Waziris, and tribes inhabiting the Khost. From the time when he lel't Hazipir, in the KLurum Valley, until his arrival at the Fort of Matoon ...

... ATTEMPTED ML I r:R AND SUICIDE. On Saturday afternoon an attempt at murder and suicide took place at Riddaford Farm, Tavistock, Devon, occupied by Mr. Richard Pearson. A young tradesman at Tavistock, named Henry Hoare, had been keeping company with Mr. Pearson's daughter. He proposed marriage to her, but was refused. He took the master deeply to heart. His business fail- ing he determined to ...

... A man named Enoch Belton was crossing the Min- erva Hills, in North Wales, when his dog suddenly left him and plunged into a snowdrift. Belton fol- lowed, and saw the head of a young girl just visible above the snow. With much difficulty he ex- tricated her, but found that she was insensible. He recognised hp*- as Ellen Roberts, ten years of age, who had been visiting her home, and was ...

... The weather in Paris is again severe, and the inun- dations of the Seine continue. Many districts are under water. The Admiralty have decided to break up some of the earlier armour-clad ships, the Lord Clyde, Prince Consort, and Royal Oak being amongst the number. Orders have been given for the Dreadnought to be prepared for sea with all despatch as a relief for the Thunderer, should it be ...

... ANOTHER DOUBLE SUICIDE. Another double suicide has been committed in the Breda quarter of Paris. Mdlle. Marguerite D-, not having been seen by her neighbours for two days, her room was broken open. J'he young woman w s found dead on her bed. By her side lay the body ot her lover, a young man named Paul the son of a provincial notary. They had poisoned themselves. It appears that the young man ...

... SOME wretch has the audacity to remark that the ladies deck their hats with flowers in memory of the men who have been killed by milliners' billa. ONE of the most unexpected and spirit-drooninr things is to borrow an umbrella and find the pro- ^netor s name indelibly attached to the handla. A COUNTRY PAPER llays: 'A child was run over wagon three years old, and cross-eyed, with knick- ...

... .,„TT2ENHUNDRED AND SEViSNTli. ] EIGHT. AiLo^' tiier it hall >>een an unsatisfactory year, and ji mlny respects unfortunate and even disastrous. So ws arrive at the end of it with a certain feeling of relief, and in the fervent hope that the new year will be very different. War, plague, pestilence an famine, battle, murder, and siiiden death—formidable as the words sound—scarcely include the ...

... 1\rB. GLADSTONE'S SIXTY-NINTH BIRTH- DAY. The Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone cele- brated the sixty-ninth anniversary of his birth, at Hawai in Castle, on Sunday, and the event happen- ing or..Sunday there was no public demonstration of any i nd. Mr. Gladstone, accompanied by Mrs. Gladstone, and Mr. W. H. Gladstone, M.P., and his wife, walked from the castle to the morning service at ...

... AiViNUAL TEEAP TU THE EAGGE1) ST. DAVID'6 SCHOOL. On Thursday, 2nd January, the annual Christmas treat, consisting ot liberal supply of cake and tea Was given to about 320 Cuildrcii of the ibt, David's Sunday ltd4ged ttcnool. It W- a rare treat to see these hitherto unoared tor waits and strays oi nociety in this district, aud how tuey enjoyed tneuiselves, aud the manlier they disposed Of the ...