... Judge Ridgley, of West Virginia, owns a horse that eats anything a man will eat except lemons. He is especially fond of sauerkraut aod plug chew- ing tobacco. He will take plug tobacco from the hand of the owner, chew it up, swallow it with a relish, and then, though hitched to the buggy, follow the Judge on the side walk, and beg for more. ...

... SPORTING ITEMS. Amphion is a certain starter for the Free Handi- cap at Newmarket. Before the race for the Harry Fowler Handicap Dnslane pave Linwood a full battle ot the best bcotch whisky. Goidseaker, H bernian, and Tyrant were yesterday strippea *e.tit a top-speed pallop of 3 mile and a half at, Pimperne. Lord Caltborpo and Captain Macheil have been bav,np, some gocd sport on the Farndale ...

... THE COMMISSION ON MINiNG ROYALTIES. The Gazette of Tuesday contains the nair.es of the commissioners appointed by her Majesty to inquire into the amounts paid as roy dries, dead reuts, and way-leaves oil coal, imustone, iron ore, shale, and the metals of mines subject to the Metalliferous Mines Act, 1872, and the terms and conditions under which those payments are made, and into the t ...

... RAILWAY ACCIDENT AT PETER- BOROUGH. A Mail Train Upset by a Milk Truck. A mail train, leaving Peterborough at eight o'clock this morning, ran into a milk truck when near Welford, The truck was smashed, the tunnel was knocked off the engine, and the mail trria left the line. The stoker was severely but tbe passengers escaped with nothing worse than a fright. A breakdown gang was speedily ...

... I YANKEE YARNS. I PROCD YOUNG MAN. Uncs upon a t,m there was a young man woo bad corns upon his feet and cahous places upon I his heart. He was a small mac, and tiie distance between his feet and his head was less than seven feer. lie had yellow hair, but the colour of his hair had 1J ...

... Prize Fight in America. DEMPSEY BEATEN. [CENTRAL NEWS TJèLKGRALJ SAN FRAHOISOO, Tuesday Nig,it.-Derripiiey, the Nonpareil, the middie-we:ght champion of America, and La Blanche, the Marine, fought with small gloves to a finish, under tho auspices of the Athletic Club, to- night. Dempsey has been looked upon as the cleverest middle-weight boxer of the age, and although he has fought many scores ...

... [CKNTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM. I BERLIN7, W ednesday.— A statement is published here that the political and diplomatic world in St Petersburg is much exercised by the sudden aud mysterious disappearance of Baron De Santos, the representative of Portugal in the Russian capital. He had recently been on leave of absence, but returned to his post, and communi- cated his intention of assisting at the ...

... [CENTRAL NEWS TELEGRAM.1 I jDKKi.i.N, »Yeauesday. — ihe antipathy shown by the inhabitants of the rural districts of Russia to aeronauts and their feats seems to have crossed the frontier into Prussian Poland. A well- known aeronaut, named Syrinx, had made an ascent from the town park of Posen, and was about to ziliglit from his aerial car when the country folks wrecked him with pitchforks, ...

... AUDACIOUS ROBBERY FROM A CARDIFF STEAMER. At the Cardiff police-court to-day—before the Stipendiary and Aldermau Jacobs—Janne. Reardon (24) and John Boyle (28) were charged with going on board the ss. Tredegai, lying in tha East Dock, entering the forecastle and stealing therefrom two shirts, one pair of trousers, one Cardigan jacket, and a pocket-knife, the property of Andrew Butchart, value ...

... I Gossip of the Day. From To-day's London Letters. AS CNLICKNSED SALUTM. The mind almost stands pro- strate, as Lord Castlereagh might have put it, at the deep- dyed depravity displayed by a costermonerer, aged nineteen, who was charged at Dalston with assault- ing a married woman, of Homerton, by placing bis arms round her neck and kissing her against her will. The complainant, de- scribed ...

... The Glansevin otter hounds will meet (weather per- mitting) on the 30th inst., at LUndebie, ac 10 o'clock, mitting) on the 30th inst., at Lindebie, at 10 o'clock, j ...

... BRUTUS AND Tilr. TAMER, M. Edmond Pezon, the son of the well-known lion tamer, and himself a thorough chip of the old block, has just met with another shocking accident.- Some time ago, while be was putting the lion Brutus through his paceii at a fair on the Boulevard Richard-Lenoir, he had bis left arm badly lacerated. On Monday evening he was performing with the same animal at Versailles. ...