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INFLUENZA IN LONDON.
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INFLUENZA IN LONDON. A re;-r<3r.ta<tve of the "Press Association," who iins r.,kde careful inquiries regurdir.g the tpidcmic of i»3uenza in the West of London reports tliit lie is unable to discover a single case | in which the symptoms of the patient give any ground for alarm. Tint tf-Hupnn in a very sevure form prevaiis to an abnormal extent at the present moment is generally admitted, but medical mem ,nt0.t conversant with the facts a-ree tint-, no ewicitncd has bt.cn forthcoming Lo s«Lo>v hitj the Cuntiuen'al form of toe inaludy has reached this counlry. A well known practitioner, whose espeiit-nee extends over the greater part of the district between West- bourne Park and Chcbea, declares eniphatically Ahat, although his advice Has been sought regard fee many attacks during the past few weeks, in no instinct,-ins his diagnosis corresponded with that to be expected in the case of Russian influenzal. A doctor fun her north testifies to the same effect; Whilst a gentleman whose practice includes the whole district between Hiromersmith and Chis- wick take3 the view that the publicity given to Me progress of the epidemic on the Continent fc.'Cftunts for the bilk of the cases recently submitted to him for treatment. In some accounts telegraphed to England it fcas bean stated that Russian influenza is fre- • fluently followed by me-tstes or hy mumps, nod •ympu>ms having been observed corresponding r With this theory, invalids have hastily inferred j that the dreadful infection has seized thein. A rash n^t unlike that alt-'udii.g rneasiea often follows an attack of Eugliyh ioduenzI, and the comp'aint is sometimes accompanied by an Mlargement of the glandi. Ordinary influenza is itself infectious, and commonly ruas through au entire family when it begins, i The advice of cne physician consulted in regard to the present epidemic is to fight it out. fteyond the discomfort experienced for three or four days, no danger is to be feared, pro- vided complications are averted by ordinary care I and avoidance of undue exposure. The present spidercii.: in London is regarded by medical men ( as merely a rather severe tyoe of ordinary in- fluenza, stich as has prevailed every winter for eight or nine years pait. me complaint winch nfhicts the postmen at Hammersmith and I'addingtou Is said to be noUiin? Worse than thut affecting the bulk of the citizens bf London at present, and the illness ot shop :ii V»'esthourne-grove is influenza of more titan ordinary severity.
A NARROW ESCAPE OF MADAME…
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A NARROW ESCAPE OF MADAME BERNHARDT. A telegram from Paris says I hat Madame Sirab Bernhardt had a narrow escape on Sunday night during the dress reh^r." il of the ne-* poetic drama "Joan of Arc" at the Poit St. Martin] Theativ. The famous t«ag»idi«uue, wlio fills tho role ot the Maid of Orleans, had mounted the pile of faggots, when through sarae inexplicable acci- dent t he stake caught tire. The actrcss shriebed, aud bi'ling down in a f-tint, was borne insensible from the stage to the t t She speedily tfscov^red, however, but two scene s)))ft"t-< were ter«>u?ly burnt while queuing the fire. One of the uofrirtiiiiate men is not likely to recover.
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THE WORLD'S WICKED WAYS; OR, THE CRIME OF THE MAD KING'S BALL. 0 A ROMANCE OF THE DAYS THAT SLEW AN EMPIRE. By JAS. S. BORLASP, AUTHOR OF Tie Queen of the Harem," TT7:# Murdered JÓhn Cameron f 5-o. BOOK U. 'he City of Passion CHAPTER XIII. MAUD rT,AYS THE AMATEl'R DETECTIVE AND II15ATtS SOME STRANGX DISCLOSUHES. '1 'II' 'II' ¡, ') f \<lillf/ <, #70> )/ '1 "J' I I': I, \1 (, V ,I 'II pot into a voiturf by the kindly advocate corner | ^I the prison, whose!* ft later she was crossing i tbe Place de la Car- I tille, with its beauti-1 CyA Va] ful memorial column, proceeding in the j direction of the Rue JL^TT de Kivoli, with a| three miles' perfect fy I ,t straight road before j her to her destina- tion, '— Arrived at the j point where the Avenue Gabriel joins th* Avenue de Matignon, she obtained a full view j of the deceased count's residence, the fron* t boing almost covered with black cloth, bossed with white safin rosettes and silver stars, whilst oa each lid. of the gateway were; looped-up ourtains of crape, and above the centre thereof a hatchment, whereon were painted the arms, crest, supporter*, and motto of the illcstrious deoeased. Both gates were wide open, and the altar, with its tall crucifix and burning caudles, > which had stood in front of them, had been j moved bact into the centre of the spacious j courtyard, and now fronted the si!ent marblo fountain. What Maud saw within this yard was "I hearse and several mourning carries, witb ? master of the ceremonies hurrying about in black full dress, velvet irnee-breechos, and silk stockings, the orthodox short cloak hang n £ gracefully from his left shoulder and the; orthodox black cocked hat, with tassel at either peak, stuck jauntily on his hetd. The funeral oortege was evidently on the point of settixig forth, and Maud Kevans felt, therefore, that this was no fitting time to attempt to force herself upon the presence of; the young countess, no matter how excellent j her motives might be. Her mind was made up in an instant, tiid standing up m the vehicle, which was open in frout, though hooded at the back, sh bade the cabman drive slowly up the avenue in the direction of the street of rh& same name. Hardly had he gone, at a perfect snail's pace, half a dozen yards, however, when her i attention was attracted by an open carriage, evidently a livery-stable turn-out, that was standing motionless by the kt-rb-stone. with the horses' beads towards th<? Beauvais* man- sion, and was occupied by two bolncn-haired women in deep mourning, with whicb this liveries of thr- coachman and the footman on the box were in keeping", save that they bad evidently been worn on many a prior occasion, whilst tha.t of tbe wenicn inside r (for a single glance had convinced Maud that they were not was bran nex ard of a costly descript/on. They were evidently bent upon attending; the count's funnral, ani were waiting there to join the procession as it came forth, but thr-y did not look like mourners, for their faces were red ind flushed, as though with anger i rather than grief, atid their eyev were cuitt. dry. Maud Kevans' very in seemed to tail her who th^y were, so she leaned far ka1, ;n the voiture out of sight, in;ent upon dia- covering a clue as to what tfley were dontly quarrelling abou:, aj ohe slowly passed them by. What she did hear wa* something remark- ably strange, for the voni m who had a shrill, harsh voice, of a co-npas» that seemed iro- possible to tone dow1; and who appeared to be somewhat in liquor, said to her companion, i. just as Maud's vehicle was abreast of theirs I; Yes, 1 have made up tny mind to sbow the world that he was something more to me t han a olient, a customer, or whatever it may pleale you to call it. He would have married me, I repeat, if it hadn't bsen for that chit of a; girl, and so I've a better right to mourn for him that "be has, at ary rate. She made him cut me dead in the Avenue des Longchamps, a few days ago, but i can forgive and forget. and so here I am you see. "Yes, directly against Jules SoerthV |; ad*. ice, who is one ot our best fríend!5," ve- torted the other, and by that tim.' Maud's i vehicle had carried her beyond all possibility of hearing anything further. She had heard enough, however, to con- vince her that the speak«ri were the two women ■o whom the Count ds Eeauv&U in- directly owed hisdeath, and Naome and Harry Hastings the awful position in which the terrible death had placed them: woiist their menlioi) of Jules Soerth, the man dressmaker's name, recalled to her mind the detective's tale concerning the great diamond fraud which thoy had perpetrated, or which he believed they had perpetrated, upon Sir Giles Gould; a fraud which had driven him to self-destruction, and bidden: fair to shipwreck his ilouig wife's reputa- tion along with his own. Maud reftected upon Mnse matters for a minute or two, and tb"n resolved that .she would order her driver to turn round and foilovv the- funeral cortege as close as he could in the re. of the vt>h'ele whuh containhd the two adventuressc-i, the thrown-back hood of which WALK-, so high that she judged they could not see what WHS ooming behind them with- out standing up as well as looking around, which thev were vet v uulikelv to do. but. eveu if they did, she would be hidden from their view by the high box of her cab and the burly person of the driver. For the rest, she was remarkably sharp of hearing, and the harsh voioe of one of the women she felt certain would be c early audible to her at so short a distance. By this time she had been driven almost as far as the Faubourg St. Honord, so she hastily pulled the check string, and as soon is the voiture had been brought to a standstill she again stood up therein and gave the driver concise, yet clear, instructions u:to what he was to do, and the consequence was that a second later they were retracing their course, and, juat as the hearse and mourning coaches came out through the crape-festooned gate- way and turned round in the direction of the Elysee palace and the British Embassy, en route to the Cemetery of Pere Laohaise, she had arrived immediately behind tbe vehicle that she wished so particularly to follow. In Paris everything is for a moment hushed as a funeral passes along. Drivers rein up their horses, music become3 dumb, men raisa their hats out of respect even to the unknown dead, and women stand still, cross themselves, and oiTer up a prayer for the departed soul,' repose. A11 this was favourable to Maud Re vans' designs; as also was the silent asphalt pave- ment, That the women in front of her werf there out of bravado and impudence rather than to p&y any manner of respect to the departed was evident from the satiiical manner in which thev at once commenced tu criticise every- thing in any way connected with the funeral procession, and their guesses at the probable cost. These topSfc of conversation did not last long, however, and then one of them seemed .1 to be trying to persuade the other not to do something that she appeared to be bent on performing, but wi, b the sole result of making her angry, for presently she broke out with:- 1 shall throw my wreath into his grnve, whatever you say, for I'm determined to let. people see that be was something more to me than his stuck-up kinsfolk would l:ke to have known. And wbv not:' Am I not the widow or a. gallant officer who fell covered with glory on the bloody field of Nfagenta" and can't I even now count princes among my aeouaintAnces I should have been his wife if—" \*ea. jet, yes! I've heard ail that. and again thix time Maud heard the other woman exclaim; "but Jules Soerth has all our interests at heart, and his advice is worth taking, especially AS wc are circumstanced." "Ob,Marfe,you are infatuated miththatlittle baboon—that even less than the ninth part of a man, a mere cad of a bourgeois with whom I should be sorry to transact anything but the merest matters of business. Ma foil when the affair of the diamonds is settled I shall wash my hand. of him altogether, and then you may marry me if you like, for I can see that yon are quite ready. When did he say that Yon Klopen, the Rotterdam jewel merchant, would be in Paris f He didn't know himself, the merchant's visits being very irregular. But he always ,tays"at the hotel Meverbeer, in the Rue Montaigne, and I know that there's a letter in cipher awaiting him there asking him to come Soerth's piace the first evening that tie arrives, and tomorrow is at all events the first of the month that he usually comes in- August." "Ah, wen, then the affair must soon be settled. I presume that Jules is too shrewd to let him cbeat us, though I don't believe that he has ever employed him befoc. "(i but he knows him by reputation though cot by sight, and his reputation is good. lie changes merchants because Sch veig, whom he has always dealt with until now, has cheated him most outrageously, both in buying from him real gems and in seli;ng him paste jewels. The last he bad of him were so easily detectable that even a certain hnsband got suspicious, and insisted on iiis wife submitting them to a lapidary, who at once pronounced them mock. But doubtless Jules toid you ? No. he didn't." Ah, well, it ody occurred at the begin- ning of last week. Hut he was in a great way u:x>ub it, for you he allows so many wives to pay him with their jewels, when his bills have grown tremendous, and he consequently has them in his power, replacing paste gems in the same settings which he gun-,aiitees to defy detection, t ba j be feared bi8 credit would be seriously compromised, and he determined never to dea) witb Schweig again. That is why 'ie has gone j,Vf!' to You Klopen, who always, it is said, acts fair." At this interesting point of the discourse too women' coacbnun tairn<d round, and Wwkd out in angry tones to Maud's driver. Keep, further oft" will youYour horse is gnawing the hood of my vehicle. Oh, No. 301 are yon Uood, fori shall know where to pounce down upon you for carnage*, sleepy head A gendarme now laid a hand on the cab horses reins, and took down the driver's numb:>r as well, and whilst he was thus en- gfged an. omnibus and an express-cart got between tb" two vehicles, so that it was very evident to Maud that her sysrtem of espial had broken down. She, therefore, directed her driver to wheel I round and retnnl to the Avenue de Mor.tig- non, where, as she had previously resolved, she made an attempt to see Naome, but was [ refused admittance to the house by < ham- broul's successor, '• No..32" this time who; looked a very Cerberus, and was evidently resolved to plav the part of one. Well, entreaties and bribes proving ahke unavailing, there was 10 help for it but to drive away, and this time Maud diluted I her course to the British iCmbas»v, as her foremost desire now was to see Lord Lyons and learn whether h,3 interview with the Emperor bad been successful. On her way she reflected upon what she. had heard the two women talking about in the vehicle that she had so closely followed, and she could not help thinking that the information might be turned to most profit- able account for she could entertain no doubt but that the Could diamonds had been the subject of discussion, and it struck her that owing to the Rotterdam je;r»;l merchant being unknown to the. man dressmaker. Renard the detective might be able to personate him. and so get at the bottom of the infamous swindle, and draw the sCngs of the two female harpies through fear, thus rendering Ihem innocuous for furcher harm She shuddced, it is tme, as she reflected that a soufwba:, indeed a very similar: scheme played off upon tiles Charrout. the valet, had apparently dcnn the cause which she had so warmly espoused more larm than good but then the Moulds were English, and of good standing, instead of a French impecu- nious flunkey and a policeman, and the autho- rities would surely think thrice before sub- jecting the free citizens if a free country. whose c^.nse their rery Ambassador had taken up and made his. own, to either trickery or tyranny. Such convictions, for convictions they now became, made Maud fool confident once mc« that her ex-lover, and even the young widowed countess, would be saved, so that sht was able « to get through the long, dreary waiting at the Embassy, until Lord Lyons returned, with a patience that at all events juit sullie-d i for the purpose, and when he at :a!lt came j iuto the room where she was seated she wag j amply rewarded, by his instantaneous and cheerful exolamation:— "Month granted! Kmperor most gracious The trial cannot take place now until the 3rd of September, and to people in the position of the accused time is everthing." Maud then told the Ambassador all that had occurred to her since they had parted inside Maaas prison, and of the discoveries she had made. Hardly had she finished when iD came Monsieur Iienard, and bhe had to ten all her tale again at Lord Lyons' request, When she had done so the astute detective observed:—"I have the gang in the hollow, of my baud now. You have acted splendidly, j mademoiselle. With the information that you have just given me and a whole month m which to act upon it. the case may he made j to assume a very different complexion before it comes before the couit."
I CHAPTER Xt\. |
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CHAPTER Xt\. FItOJr THE CITY OF PLFASURE TO THE CITY or VASS-IOX. At the close ot July all Paris bad been crying "To the Rhine! and ¡ Iu Berlin! out in a week all that was changed, for after the flash in the pan at Saarbruck, magnified by the Imperial despatches into an important victory, reverses came thick and fast upon the French arms. On August 4th General J)ouay was badly beaten at Wissenburg, completely rolled back y and doubled up in fact, and two days later MacMahon was severely defeated at Freish- willer, but saved his army from annihilation by accomplishing one of the most difficult chang.-a of front er practised on the tield of battle, and which to this day is the wonder and the admiration of all military tacticians two regiments of cavalry cheerfully sacrificing themselves at his orders, almost to the last man, in order to save the bulk of the army, which was out-numbered by very nearly five to one. Then the false despatches, received in forged cyyher, apparently from his brother Marshal Baxaine, but in really from the Prussian camp, deceived, as they were intended to do, the gallant Irishman as to the pl/lee and time at which the two French armies were to form a juncture, 'bus rendering it an easy matter for the enemv to roll Bazane back into IHetz. and then tackle McMahon single handc-i with overwhelming numbers, compelling him to make a stand at Sedan, where eighty thousand as gallant Frenchmen as ever fought, found themselves surrounded by a countless circle of artillery, lacked by two hundred and fifty thousand fighting men, There, hemmed inside a little town that (was almost without defences jammed into narrow streets, crowded to suffocation in the small public squares, with carino.i pointed at them on all sides, and their own ammunition jail but exhausted, threatened every moment with a bombardment that must have exter- ruinated every woman and ccild in the place, and th«ve were more than three thousand o* such. V: hat were they to do ? What th"y did do was to attempt six times to cut thei; way through those two hundred and liftf thousand Prussians, all,, to burst through and over that wail ot rifled cannon, ranged as close as infantry, the lui-ptror th-* three last times leading them lot the result was mountain* of desd, piled so -h:r::l: that a; last the corpses could rot fall; that men died j standing, propped up by <x>rpr>t*, ov by com- -t ro rades in the deatu-throes, who hd 'ric j, ti to sink to th earth and that tl en. to save the remainder, and the women and children as well, the Kmperor of the French |yielded himself a prisoner to "the iiing of Prussia, with the -ever memorable words, j" Liable tc. find death at the bead of my avmy, I lay my sword at the feet of your Majesty." All these quickly-following disasters (occa- sione(i by every regiment that went to the front being one, two. three, and of'en four hundred men short of its proper comple- merit of a round thousand, owing to the infamous rascality in hi,,h quartets of aecept- ing substitution money from conscripts j unwilliog to seive, and spending it on m.s- tresses, race-bo) ses. and every species of pro- illigacy, instead -f providing the substitutes), were known in Paris almost as soon as they happened, and the oncepro-d ciryot pleasure became at once a sity oe passion. The Ministry of Grammoni and Olliuer, which had declared war, tvas driven from oflice, and General Mot.ianb.-ui and the Count de Paiakio took 1he helm, though not knowing fur all hour how long they would be aHewed to steer the ship of the State, for the Marseillaise was now sung in the streets, and the bloody and infamous Carmagnole danced as wt-II. and the great unwashed of Far a. were surging, at they always do on the eve of troublous and perturbed times, into the districts of civilisa- tion, just as the mud at the bottom of a Dool rises and discolours all the water when it is well stirred itp. The furx-[tt! drapery now hung black, limp, and dismal against two or three houses in almost "very street, in mounting for husbands and sons who bad fallen on distant battle-, fields. J here seemed to -xi a., many black dresses in the thoroughfares aa coloured, Everywhere there was more drunkmness nut: less mirth, theatres ar.d a'! other amusements ceased to draw, business came to almost a standstill, everyone v bo could afford if, as well as many who could not, w-re talking of; h aving Paris,and those who were too patriotic to do so or for any other reason found such a course impracticable, were laying in provisions whilst they were still cbr-ap. for by now the pleasant fiction that the Prussian Ki-ig, as he bad thrice solemnly dp.Iared. was orilv making war on the French Emperor was over, and it was apparent to all that h" was bent c.pon inflicting upon brance herself every hunulia- tion and indignity that was possible, and that in Paris alone would he consent to make | peac" ) But Paris wac: capable of being madeahaid nut to crack, and nearly all Parisians wete Of; one mind that not an cfto: i should be spared in making it so exfr8 hard that King William's: teeth should break in the attempt, Matters had got to th:a pass, or very nesrlv 0, when the month of grace expired and the day fixedllpon for ttarry Hastings' if-tal came on. that trial which would form prelude to Naomie de R>auvais' own arraign- nient for it was the intention of the prosecu- tion to compel h'T to^givc evidence as a ness against Harry first, and then to treat her as a co-principal in the crime afterwards. according to usual French custom.
; CHAPTEK XV.
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CHAPTEK XV. j 1IAHHV HASTINGS RK.«OLVKS TO ri.KAH I. OCtVl'Y' IX OIUlKR TO SAVF. NAOMIE. (ih, that long and weary month. It seemed almost endless to those in whom we ar^ most deeply interested. Naomie de Beauvais wasfor the whole while detained as an incuijie in be,- own house, and her every movement watched and every action criticised to her disadvantage, not onlv by No. o'J (the unfortunate Chambrol's successor),' but also by Charrout, who had been reinstated there by the chief of the Criminal Investiga- tion Department, in the character of steward, as though on purpose to show to the world tLat the charge made against him, and where- upon he had been arrested, was accredited as false and trumped-up by the prefecture. These two individuals kept as close guard over the unfortunate girl countess as a hungry cat could possibly do over a rat hole; Charrout j with an extra degree of malignity because I the reading of the deceased count's will by his notary disclosed the fact that of hl; entire property and estates he had left every thing to his countess, and not even the most trifling legacy to his valet. who had sinned so deeply in the hope of being handsomely remembered. Thetenourof the will, however, caused many people to feel more than ever convinced of tha countess and her lover s guilt (for most persons persisted in regarding our hero in the light of a lover), since they chose to conclude that Naomie knew the purport of her husband's will, had communicated the faot to Harry, and. that in order to obtain possession of his riches they had deliberately planned between them that the count should be despatched lit a way that should look as thoogh he had com- mitted self-destruction, i What mattered it that the facts of the -ASO were in a dozen respects opposed to this theory, for people can alway3 alter the coui- plexion of things, at all events to their own satisfaction, if they are so inclined. During all this pet ;od Maud Revans could not manage to obfain a single interview 'RL!! the poor girl on whose behalf her warmest sympathies were enlisted, b t Mousieur A veyron, the advocate, could not be kept out of the Beauvats Mansion, and Monsieur Henard, the detective, .'3»o frequently i/.anaged to enter it in the aracter of his clerk. ? But, alss Monsieur Renard vras not thr same confident, hopeful, bright, an-d cheery character ss formerly, for with ail bit skill and patient assiduity he haVl n-It been able, even during all this while to cover that the count had purchaser [revolver anywhere, in refutation of Ji Charrout s sworn evidence that he had nev possessed such a weapon; nor, and this dislf couraged him yet more, had the Rotterdam jewel merchant turned up in Parts, and the chances were already strong that he wouldn't come, aye, even that in a few days more he couldn't fjme because of beleaguering armies indeed, in a few day? now there would be uo use in his coming, for Harry Hastings, and Naomie de Beanvais as well, would be then ried, condeiured, and executed, by reason that, under the pressure of still more exciting ovents, one would be arr?i-^ned immediately after the other, and quick work would be made of both, for with tbe foe almost at the i gates there was no delay or procrastinatioa about anything now, and an almost feverish baste characterised al! men's actions. Meat wbiie Harrv Hastings occupied the same ceil at Mazas. and as an inculpe was per- mitted to see his advocate as often as he chose, and once a week, for a quarter of an hour at a timr. a single friend so that Lord i yon? and Maud Uevans tool; it by turns to visit hirn, and offer him such small crumbs of comfort as it lay in their power to bestow; not 'ait what several of his brother attaches at the Embassy, and other friends as well, woud have liked to vigit him in order to show their entire.con'iJence in his innocence and their sympathies with his misfortunes, hut, knowing whom he would rather see, they all yielded tbpir oiain 3 in favour of Lord Lyons and Maui. 11 1r: really wonderful how Harry maia- rained his spirits: that is to say, wonderful to everyone but himself, the reason being that he had marie up bis mind to an act of the most sublime s U-sarrilice—that, in short, he would sell his own chances of life in favour of 1 Naomie, ana, [t her prospects of proving her innocence did not considerably brighten up, that he would confess that be murdered the count in a paroxysm of mad jealousy, bit that Naomie had k'iown nothing of his intention. He could norhave hit upon a more clumsy device or one more likely to defeat its very object, but long solitary confinement, with its c.onccnaitanti in 'he shape of horror and } despair, had weakened his reasoning faculties j and distorted''bis judgment. ) Unfortut atcly, he kept his intentions a cl. se secret from.Maud aud the Ambassador, for even the former would have been able lo w,int out to him that they would be more likely to destroy Naomie than to save her. Poor fellow, the conviction that he could so save her made bim almost happy, J END OF PART I L j (To be continued.)
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■■ ii — j THE LATE PRIZE FIGHT. The inquiry w' idi the P«lic-»n C!' b liave given ivrtioe of I,olding in reference to tho alleged btutai ard treatmcnr. of 81a7in in the recent tigiit willba of the most searching character. Tliey have determined to find out who hired '.ha Bit- iningham vou»h?, r.nd under wlto$e inatructioiw j ibey acted at the ni>g side. Alre.idy tliey luve furnished wiili a lot of iii. riii.inattiig evi- «}ence. Mr. J. Fieaiing, the boxing manager of 'he ('iun, who has ble-n su?p?riiJ d until a geneml 'r.eeiingof the members, his been requested to fu!-iiisli a cxpUiwtiou of iiii conduct in connection with the light to the committee, wWo will 1.0111 a wxeting liiin (Tuesday) eveniaj at the club to consider the samr, and tike wittt other steps tliey miy tltink ne/eseary, prio:' to Hu; jcnei.it irieeting callrd January 7, at half-p*»l f'¡ur p.w., when (he whole busiue-s wili be fully *• -tie into.
| MISS BLYTHE S CLAIM.
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MISS BLYTHE S CLAIM. Messrs. inceni rlHd Vincent, solicitors in this oountry of Miss l orence Llythe, write It is not !he fiict, as supposed, that Misi Klythe's elolim to :he ('S! a.'e rf Mr Thomas Hiyth", eorrcctly esti- n-a'ed at £ ",000 000, merely arises in cons^qusnce of the wi:l s ated to have oeen recently dehvered up. Mi'JS fiiythe, whose ca«e Las for a long time itfn herore tiie Californian cr-rts, claims the esia;e, in the absence of any will. as the sole rec'-gr ised and adopted cllild of ths deceased, the Caliiu nlan iaw perihltting and enforcing, on suffi- cient sli,lii;, claun, tven against ncxt-of- \(:,1. I' i< this rlaiiii which IMS f >r so t'ng been fh. subj'Cl •'■f judicial investigation."
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THE SHORTEST LETTER ON RECORD. V> hut is probably the shortest letter eVH printed in a newspaper appeared in the Timtn on Friday. itiis is the whale uf :t. heading and all: — HOW TO WAKiC Bf'RIAL HARMLb'S8. TO TH] EDUOu IF THK TIMKS. *ir,—Put ir. tlie coffin qiiickihii". J. iio^MNS ABHAIIALL. ijoouibe, Oxoii, Dec. 21.
! THEIR "COUP DE GRACE."
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THEIR "COUP DE GRACE." Kvery dog has his day, and, accoidiu* to Dr. M. A. St&vr, the Fhvsnclooists b.ave had theira. I>r. ift'irr, in hi" in tlte i'opular Science Month!if, »ays fi-at it is impossible to ii-stw any conclusion troiii tlss ssze or ?!iape of the head as to the extent, -if guriace of the- brain, and so as tc the mental capa.cit y. It is absurd to judge of the brain surface hy enher tba size of the head or the extent of the superficial irregular surface which is covered by the skul1, without taking into consideration tho number of folds ad the depth of the crease*. F"r a littie bra!l ",ith PIIHlY decp L1)dJ may realiy, when spteac. out, have a larger surUcc than a lirgebrain with few shallow fold*
FORTUNE FOR" A ^FLOWER .GIRL.
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FORTUNE FOR" A ^FLOWER GIRL. The Dublin Mail London corrt.spondent s-tjs:— It is reported that e. weli-known London flower girl iuis recently con e into a fo:tunc of at least £ 200,000. I know for a fact that she is to be the recruit nt of a. very considerable sum of money. The girl has hitherM lived on about lilftten shillings a
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"THE GREAT MILL-STREET MYSTERY.j
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The apparent impossibility of finding the! murderer, however, added an element of ¡ mystery and excitement to the incident. The papers were full of it for a few days, and J'The Great Mill-street Mystery" figured prominently as a heading on the placards and as a Lew and striking cry for the newsboys, For a time Mill-street was besieged by re- porters, arid every inch of No. 20 was examined, photographed., and described until tha dwellers in its neighbouring houses ] actually pridc4 iLemsekes upon their con-1 nactioi; with the plact The excitement gra-. faded away, and 'I' Stephen Eyre's death as forgotten, but Francis Helraont i:;<utitalned a painful! mamerr of the event. He could not be per- fectly sure in his own mind that George Eastwood was entirely unconnected with it. What made Black Sal" say to Stephen Eyre that Jess Aiinstrong's lover had come I back, if there was no reason for the aasertiou ? I' That it was made out of sheer ill-nature Mr. Helmont did not quite believe. And if he had come back, if it was he who had been j with Jess in the top room of that deserted house, what had since become of him ? It was a mystery vhich the parson thought that he should never solve without the heip If Kiehard Eyre. He wrote to George Eastwood's home, to his latest addresses in London and on the Continent, but received no answer. He went! daily to the hospital where Dick Eyre was laying, and daily received the same Answer-- II No better, unconscious still" udil at last he went and heard the half-expected words, "Richard Eyre is dead." Did he say nothing before he died P' Belmont asked of the nurse. "He sailed out Jess Jessr sir, but that was all. He wa* ne\er able to speak con- nectedly. We never expected him to live." Helmont went eway dejectedly. Poor Dick' Poor Stephen Evre' What chance waa there now of bis e. ?r learning the truth About'' the AJ ill-street Mystery He began to think that it would have to be relegated to the realm of things that rover are found out. out. I A few weeks passed away without his hear- ing anything more of the persons concerned in this sad tragedy. Then, one morning, the young fellow who acted as his secretary! opened a letter and, as usual, turned to the ) Signature first. It was from George East- wood and written from Sardinia. I > Quite a commonplace letter. He had not I' written lately because he had had a touch of fever at Naples. He was sorry to bear of the mysterious deatb of Helrnont'a protege, Stephen Eyre, which he had read in the papers. He had had a very pleaaaHt winter, oblefly in Italy and Cireece but he did not think of returning to England just yet-he, had no inducement to return. And that was alt. I "luey must have been wrong; of course, they were wrong," Helmont meditated to bim- II self. Eastwood had uoihiug to do with the fcyre murder, that is plain. He hu been abroad all the winter. Neither he nor Jess had, I trust, any connection with the death of Stephen I'yre." I A ixl then he felt ii-, his pocket-book, and fingered uneaaily the lock of long, soft hair which he had detached from Stephen's hand when be found his bodv in the snow. He had Bever been able to make up his mind to sar- reuder that strange piece of evidence. It was while he still sat holding the hair in his hand at his study tabje that a visiter was announced. u A person to see you, sir." He knew the formula: it meant somebody from his parish, with some tale of sin and woe. He roused himself to attend. He heard a slight j rastle of a woman's garments, the door closed and left the visitor standing before the blind parson's chair. s\ on t you sit down ?" said Mr. Helmont cou' teously. I cannot see you, as perhapa i yoc knolV; but if I can do anything for: 10\1-" would, maybe, know me if you saw me, sir," aaid & woman's cluiet voice. You ibsed to know rue well euough. I'm called Jess Armstrong Ilelttiont rose from his chair. j Ani A. ve come to §iv-? myself in chargo A for the wilful murder of Stephen Eyre." Has it thus ttat the Mill-street mystery was to be solved P END OF THE PjnoLoeuK,