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MARRIED BY A LADY,

CRIPPLED COLLIER'S WINDFALL.

TRAMWAY DEVELOPMENTS.

A SOLDIER'S PRIVILEGE.

THE BURDEN OF ARMAMENTS.

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Lambs are to be seen about Driffield. Lady Curzon is to leave for India on Friday. Manchester tramways last week earned BII,586 in fares. A live locust measuring 2in. long has been captured in the Leeds market. During the hearing of a charge at Liscard two women in court went into hysterics. Twenty-three thousand colliers are now on strike in the Charleroi district of Belgium. According to a correspondent a buttcflv was seen in a church at Eastrop, Basingstoke, on Sunday. There are at present 27,209 Chinese working in the Transvaal mines, and 7,514 en route for South Africa. In a case in the Law Courts the plaintiff was attended by Dr. Death, while the defendant's name was Tombs. Mr. Enoch Ellis, of Doncaster, on being clrcted president of the Manchester Coal Exchange, said the trade was improving. Last-year 1,684 children were burnt to death in London, and 1,405 of these fatalities were due to the lack of fireguards. The water supply of Heywood and Middletcn at present is sufficient to last 121 days, being estimated at 273,000,000 gallons. The turbine torpedo-boat LibeTlule, built for the French Navy, has been successfully launched at Havre. She is driven by petrol. Mdlle. Van Dorp, a lady barrister, has been admitted at the Supremo Court at The Hague as counsel for the defence in a murder trial. The Barrow Town Co-wncil aTe going to appoint a jury of butchers to decide questions as to the soundness of meat at the public abattoirs. A drunken man, clad only in a shirt, boarded a Manchester tramcar. The conductor wrapped him in his overcoat until the police arrived. Mr. Rider Haggard" who is to report upon the American land settlements of the' Salvation Army, will leave fornew York on the 22nd inst. The Lower Houoo. of the Prussian Diet has passed a bill for greait extensions of waterways in the kingdom, at an expenditure of over 330,000,000 marks. General Booth wilt leave London on March 2nd for Australia and New Zealand, and will break the journey at PortsSaid for the purpose of visit- ing Jerusalem. Mr. Alexander MacPhail, lay chaplain at the Poor-house, Inverness, attained his hundredth year on Tuesday. Mr. MacPhail is still able to perform his duties. So far this winter New York has had a snow- fall of 48 inches, aa-compared with 27 inches for the whole of last winter, and the record of 53 inches in the blizzard year of 1888-89. The fiancee of the Crown Prince of Germany is said to have inherited a tendency to consump- tion, and after their-marriage the royal couple will spend the winter-in the Riviera. On John Stedman, who was literally dying of starvation when admited to Whitechapel Infirmary, and who subsequently did die, was found JE2 19s. &d., sewed up in his clothes. Mr. Justice Grantham at Essex Assizes, when gome witnesses became confused, said they all seemed to be in a fog, but he supposed it was due to the place they came from—Mistley. When her sailor son came home on furlough from the Navy, Mrs. Farren, a Derry woman, pawned his uniform to get drink. She has been sent to gaol for six months for neglecting her family. ø A nine-year-old boy fell from a train near Southampton, and was picked up by his father, a gunner in the Royal Garrison Artillery, in an un- conscious condition. On arrival at Southampton the lad was dead. Wrapped in a piece of cloth, the sum of 32s. lyd. was found concealed in the hair of a woman who was charged at the Manchester Police Court with robbing a man of the money after he had paid for a drink for her. Lord Gerard, who has just come of age and is new at Cambridge, will join the 2nd Life Guards as soon as he has done the requisite number of trainings with the Lancashire Yeomanry, in which he holds a commission. After drinking half a bottle of whisky which he found by his father's bed, a Dublin boy of seven diecl. At the inquest the father stated that he did not stop the child, because his family got a share of everyhing that was going." A herbalist in a Welsh town displays an an- nouncement regarding the virtues of a lozenge which he warrants will keep the voice in good con- dition. The notice ends: "Strongly recom- mended to revivalists of both sexes." In a debate at Beckenham District Council, concerning the parish church bells, it was men- tioned that some years ago a West-end club paid JS150 per annum to a church on the opposite side of the street on condition that the bells were not rung. To promote thrift, the Town Council of Callen- berg, Saxony, has decided to present, every child at its birth with a savings bank book and a small deposit. No withdrawals will be allowed until the young depositor reaches the age of fourteen, except in case of death. A delightful specimen of Hibernian wit is to be found in this month's Navy List, which con- tains the following instructions: Officerc, of the late Royal Naval Artillery Volunteers must send in annually to the Secretary of the Ad- miralty a notification of their being alive." Mr. Michael Davitt, who is in Russia, is to be honoured by having a new variety of potato called after him. It is to take the place, it is hoped, of the Scotch "Champion," which has been Ireland's staple potato stock for years, and which has been a comparative failure lately. Mrs. Kate Edwardes, who is awaiting execution in the prison, at Reading, Pennsylvania, on the 16th inst., 'has arranged with her clergyman to preach her funeral sermon from a text (Isaiah Ix. 20) of her own selection, has named the three hymns she wishes sung, and has chceen her last resting-place. Robert Turner, who took part in the heavy brigade action at Balaclava, has died at Don- caster at the age of seventy-three. Whilst in hospital he received personal attention from Florence Nightingale. He was also on the troop.. sliip Europa, which was burnt in the Bay of Biscay on the way home from the Crimea. The public regard the parson very much as they do cheese," writes the Rev. W. J. Stobart, vicar of Carisbrooke, Isle of Wight, in his parish magazine. He is too old or too new, too strong or ico mild, he has got a high flavour or no flavour at all; and then, acp-ording as they like or dislike the man, so they regulate their attendance af iwMBVuawo I I