... The Vienna correspondent of the Daily Tele- graph writes :-The following oddities among many others reached a Vienna editorial office in 1898:- The post-mortem examination showed that the unfortunate girl was a teacher's daughter. When the housemaid entered the bedroom at the usual hour she found her master already a corpse. Soon afterwards he withdrew altogether from the political arena. ...

... I ENGLAND AND FRANCE. PUts, Wednesday. Whist; writing in the Figaro on the relations between England and France, says I admit that the proceedings-of Great Britain with respect to us singularly re- semble at the present time those of Prussia in the last days of the reign of Napoleon III., but it would be going too far, much too far, if reflecting minds were to allow themselves to be affected ...

... An Adventure irrthe Bristol Channel. I A strange occurrence, an explanation of which is awaited with interest, took place at Watchet, a small port on the Somersetshire coast, last week. On Tuesday morning a small boat belonging to the ketch Telegraph IR. Nicholas, master), owned byMessrs Stoate and Sons, corn and flour mer- chants, was found to be missing from her regular moorings at the ...

... Official Starting Pric9S. As published in Sporting Life and Racinp CalenAftv. MANCHESTER. FUCK. IWHNXItb. WINNBIT. P-lt?(Igl Tuesday 4 Ledessan 7 to 4on Kinssle 3 to 1 ag 6 Harvesting 2 to 1 ag Selling S'chase. 4 Miss Morrison 3 to lag 6 Wild Heather n .lit# 8 ag Paddock 2 Modestv 5 to 4 ag HAMILTON PARK. Open 4 Bonfire 7 to 4 ag 3 3 to Ion Arran 8te 1 ag Maudslie 9 Bohemia 6 to ...

... TEACHERS IN COUNCIL. Birmingham Gathering. The opening session of the antlllkl conference Of the Federation of Head Tear-be' Associations took place to-day. The new preidbt (Mr R. C. Lindsay, Liverpool) took the chair nnd delivered an address, criticising the educatHJoal policy of the Government. The annual re!J\)tt stated that eight new associations had joined t federation during the year, ...

... Councillor Edward Thomas this morning pre- sided over a meeting of tho Cardiff Records Com- mittee, when the Town Clerk reported that the number of subscribers for the complete records now reached 13S. ...

... The Russian cruiser Kieff belonging to the Volunteer Fleet has left Sebastopol with a cargo of steel rails for the Chinese railway. An Odessa correspondent telegraphs that a fur- ther party of the Duciobortzi, numbering about 1,500, have just embarked at Batoum for Canada The newly-appointed Judge, Mr Justice Buck- nill, will be sworn in before the Lord Chancellor in hi private room at the ...

... MR WH)T)NG AND MARY ANN. By RtCHARD MARSH, Aathor of The Crime and the Cri.mma.l. The Beetle A Mystery, &c.. (&'c. JCOP\'RMHT.! I did not msan to kiss her it was a. pure acci- dent. Her face was elosf to mine,or my face was close to hers and then her lips cams into contact with my tips or my lips came into contact with her then &t that moment her mother came into the room, t.nd she.said. Mr ...

... THE BELLE OF TIEW YOR( AT DINNER. Last night Messrs Williamson aid Mnsgrove, the proprietors of the Belle of few York [ Co., which has opened itgtour at the Theatre Royal under remarkably Î succes/Ql r&usDices, entertained all the members to tfnner at the Esplanade Hotel, Penarth. Dariyg the evening Mr Alcock, ihe manager, was prnted by Mr Shepherd, the musical director, in the name of the ...

... An inuegtwtus held at Lancaster Infirmary on Witia-a Clark, a joiner, 56 years of age, of Lancar, who died through being run over by a trained between Lancaster and Morecambe. The medicl evidence showed that deceased was in such 11 alcoholic state that an operation was im- possille. A sober man would have recovered. A verd-At of Accidental death was returned. ...

... TRIPLETS. An application has been made for the Queen's bounty for the wife of Mr A. Lloyd, a provision merchant's assistant, of 6, Havelock-road, Blytha- road, West Kensington-park, who on Wednesday last gave birth to triplets, all boys. Dr. F. V. Denne, of 69, Brook-green, W., who is in attend- ance on the mother, is supporting the application. On Saturday one of the children died, but the ...

... heYstmd Police Court to-day James Green, Owen. Arnold Harding, and Richard jung, lads liviog at Clydach Vale, werp- ed with breaking into a carpenter's shop at 4o,ch Vale, and stealing some tools valued at cn the 30th ult. Green was fined £ 1, which ,)aid, and Owen £1 or 12 strokes with the h rod. The other two were dismissed. Owen hot pay the money, and consequently had to ive the birch. £ ...