... LOVE LEADS TO SUICIDE. I At Sedglsy, Staffordshire, to-day, a young lady named Hannah Flavell was charged with attempt- ing to commit suicide owing to disappointment over a love affair. The prisoner had been courted by a young man for six months, after which he suddenly broke off the engagement. Prisoner afterwards became very depressed, and cut her throat. Subsequently she stated it was owing ...

... ENGLISH OHURCH UNION I In the House of Commons on Tuesday Mr S. Gedge gave notice that on that day four weeks he woull move an Address calling her Majesty's attention to the memorial recently put forth by the English Church Union, and praying that her Majesty would not appoint to any office in the Church any member of that Union unless he formally dissociated himself from that memorial. ...

... CARDIFF DIVORCE SUIT. Butchart v. Butcliatt and Hill. I In the Divorce Division tc-day further evidence was taken in the Hutch art divorce suit (before the President and a common jnry.) The petitioner, Mr James William Butcbart, manager to a firm at Cardiff, sued for a, divorce from his wife, Mrs Alice M. Bufcchart, residing at Bristol, on the ground of her alleged adultery with Mr Erne st ...

... CIGARS FOR THE JURY. I An Ainericen contemporary gives the bill which was recently run up by a jury in a in order case and allowed as expenses by the Judge. It in- cludes the following items --Cigars (eight boxes) 16 dollars three packs playing cards, 50 cents half-pint Old Crow, 35 cents ditto blackberry brandy, 20 cents; eaJts, 10 cents 41b pulverised sugar, 32 cents; medicine tablets, 13 ...

... THE GENTLEMAN SLAVEY. By T. MULLETT ELLIS. (COPYRIGHT.) It Is very sad, said the lady slavey, neatly banging up the dustpan in the proper place and tidily arranging her white wristbands, for she had early finished her morning's work, as her custom was, she being an early riser. It is more than sad, it is really pitiful. My sister Ida, who was left penniless when father died. writes me that ...

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... ALL THROUGH A LOVE AFFAIR, A year ago Senior Lieutenant Rudolf iiov&ss, who had his miud unhinged by a. love affair, dis- appeared from his quarters at Buda Peath. A wild man of the woods has just been foond in the great forest lying beyond Buds., and bat proved to be identical with Lieutenant Kovacs. He had become a perfect Bavage in appearance. ...

... CRIMINAL COURT. I (Before Justice Channel.) 'Hie trials of prisoners were resumed this morn tag at the Town Hall, Cardiff, before Justice Channell. DID NOT SURRENDER. I John Francis Retekin (35), general dealer, 20 Wellington-street, Cardiff, was indicted for steal. ing a pair of boots and two brushes, the property of the Great Western Railway Company, on January 9th last. Accased did not ...

... Accepts the Presidency of the Royal Society. The Press Association is officially informed that the Earl of Coventry, president of the Royal Agricultural Society, has received a personal letter from the Prince of Wales consenting to accept the presidency of the society for the year 1900, in order to show the great interest which he takes in everything relating to agriculture. A Noble Endowment ...

... Mummy Photographs. I A. Parie photographer has introduced a novel stylo of taking photographs, which is enjoying great success. He calls it mummy photography. The Babject is swathed in mummy cerements, put into a genuine sarcophagus, which has been Sported from Cairo, and portrayed in an upright position. The smiling, living face which looks out from the embroidered grave clothes gives an odd ...

... PUT-F ING HIS FOOT IN IT. At Whitechapel County Court yesterday (be- ore Judge Bacon) a man named Sandbraun claimed damages from a Mr Altman, of Beruerg- street, Commercial-road, for injuries to his leg, caused by falling through a coal plate. Plaintiff alleged that the flesh of his right leg had been cut to the bone. He called no ineclical evidence, and defendant denied that he bad been ...

... THE DEVIL'S REVENGE It wag towards the end of November; the Imperial Garden of Vienna was deserted a sharp breeze was whirling the saffron-coloured leaves shrank np by the early cold the rose boshes, tormented and broken by th wind, let their branches drag in the mud Still, the grand alley, thanks to its covering of sand, was dry and pass- able. Although devastated by the approach of winter, ...