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THE PRISON FR OF THE BASTILLE.

TIIE HAHVARD OBSERVATORY.

OVER THE DORE AND CHINLEY.

CURIOUS PAWNSHOPS. i

--c. LAUNDRIES.. the

OUR LONDON CORRKSPOXimr,

ACCOUCHEMENT OF THE DUCHESS…

NEWS NOTES.

"OATCHING THE TRAIN."

A LADY BARRISTER.

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A LADY BARRISTER. The Gouhardpost publishes an obituary of Fraulein Katharina Muheim, the lady barrister," who died a few days ago at the age of 43. Fraulein Mubeim was originally a schoolmistress who had obtained a high diploma at the Menzingen Training College, and she served with distinction and success for some time as a secondary teacher. She devoted her spare time to a gevere course of legal study, for which she had a re- markable passion, and became so great an expert that she was frequently consulted, first by her neighbours, and then by persons at a distance, upon their law- suits. About 10 years ago she ventured to appear in person before a court of justice in the little agricul- tural canton of Obwalden, pleaded for a client, and no objection was raised against the hitherto unpre- cedented innovation. Had this taken place in one of the great cantons, where there is an influential legal profession, Fraulein Muheim would have been sent out of the court as an intruding laywoman. The naive and simple democrats of Obwalden, however, saw no reason why a woman should not plead if she were capable, and from 1884 to the present year she was entrusted with a great aumber of briefs, and obtained a great local fame and success as a public advocate. "Her jealous male competitors," we are told, insisted that she owed much of her success to the gallantry of the judges, who could not bring themselves to brow-beat a lady as they will brow-beat a man." However this may be, she has doubtless acted as the pioneer of the professional advocate's calling for her own sex. She was a generous, open-handed woman, and a free and ready helper of the poor, both with advice and money.

.-PRESENTS FOR A ROYAL BRIDE.

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LUNACY IN ENGLAND AND WALES.

'-BERLIN'S NEW CATHFDP""ILL.