... 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 ...

... Il p r7is v E n v,7rT D0TrT IT xr Tk Vrn! 'rr% nTJs-V I THEY EXCUPSION FARE-S?TO BRECONY. Our Dowlais correspondent ?? indignation prevails here in consequence of what is regarded as the high-banded and unprincipled action of the Brecon and Mertbyr Railway Com. pany in the ?? of excursion trains to Brecon Eisteddfod. Bills are posted all over the town announcing the issuing of cheap ...

... B RItY 1 Y L 0 A \ A ND Rs AILAAYS . D12lEOTDUW' REPOzRT, Tin~ directore oc tile Barry Dock en 1 Rtillwnys lrivc' 311 iqsilecirlc Ifta-yparly rop'rt Cnii tlie p;eti-rcd elided Juine 30 last, which cIIILaiIS thu A antlteipxted ii: ith I-st l--li-yeai-ly reporu cm fsdS[`, ittireeut 0 ll.,it titsse tisit etrittt li ?? etatsttmi sd tai rs ji 5-ttg 1 fitlt cotnllneliled ?? til is f ?? situ!.1l~l ...

... : DISTRICT SEEWS. I CA2flfl4Fv. he , ?? S~cretary his ?? co - r- mute tha deat: tne ?? brick. and ibo auspensis Iron: ;hict' she het ere mafferedisin hei seoitenre.:berele~viby L the: communcto nd t e. runica-.ion ad to that she 'whit n: imprisoned for life, The a e.-a u-excitement Ii Caat Th' ped.t b rad exclusive sale for about ten minutes, an durm-g ~'that time manythosnso hlasusw , aold. ...

... MET R1OPOLILTAN NOTES. aTaE Quiaim's VISIT 're WAas. rb ?? left Osborne this (Thursdaly) le evening on her journey to Wales, R.. travelling vira the0 South Western )eand Great 'Western Railways, to Lsan- of dderfel, where. she is to arrive to-morrdw Id (Friday) morning, see voute for PaI6. The I as heartiest good wishes of her Majelsty's sub- of it ,d jeats on this side of Offa's Dyke go with ...

... Her Majesty, acting on the advice of the Home Secretary, has granted a reprieve to Florence MIay- , brick, and commuted the sentence to one of penale e servitude for life. a Mrs Maybrick is reported to be improv- eoing as little. She is very thankful for the a efforts made to save her life, but the chaplain a considers that she scarcely realises the convict's e life that is before her.. When ...

... Mrs Rosana Lanoiimaun von Gmazaenfels, widow of the m an who committed a double eorder and suicide at Stratford, arrived in Stratford f rom, londlon on 'Thursday, and identified her huslasnd's, body. She Was met at the station by the Seperin- tendont of Police, who took her to the haosbe where the tbreo -bodies were laid out. The woman readily identifed her husband, and, kneeling down, kissed ...