REMARKABLE UNSOLVED MYSTERIES.

Some. nnonitJhs ago a pair of American lovers eloped, with the intention of coming to Europe to be married. The woman possessed a considerable fortune, which she willed her lover should inherit after her death. The vessel in which the lovers sailed fo» Europe was totally wirecked. and the two, among others, were drowned. No one saw them die, but it is said that they plunged into the sea together, nor were their bodies ever recovered.

The point as to which of these lovers died first is one of those questions to which no one can supply an answer, and; is in-vested-with gireat interest on account of the fact tfhat it involves the important question as to whom should succeed to the woman's fortune. If 4he woman died first, then the property, should descend through the lover, to whom it was bequeathed, to his next-of-kin. On the other hand, if the man died first he never inherited the property, which, therefore, remains in the possession of the woman's family. Hence, a fortune hangs upon the question of which of ithe lovers died first, and there is no answer. . A most extraordinary question arose out of the death of a man named Jefferson, clerk of « New York solicitor. Jefferson was a great gambler; in fact, 'he almost starved himself that he might have the bulk of his salary to play with. . He was almost invariably unlucky, but on. one occasion fortune favoured him, and he won nearly 900dol in the course of am evening. He went home to his wretched lodgings, to meet, as he told someone, a friend. When the friend called he was amazed to find the clerk sitting before some writing-papei> on a table—dead. Medical and police assistance were immediately foxjthcomin^, and it was found' that the man had committed suicide by

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jThe^paper-hehadibeen writing upon..proved

to be a hurriedly-written will, in which he bequeathed the whole amount of the evenings winnings to his employer, whom he declared te had robbed of an even larger amount, to provide himself with funds with which to gamble. The doctors pronounced positively that tli* man had been dead more than two hours ; th«y could practically prove it. Yet, when the police seized the will, the ink in which it was written was in parts still wet. The doctors also declared that the fatal dose of poison was so large that the clerk must have died immediately upon taking it. Yet" <tihe bottle in wHch he had obtained it from a neighbouring chemist was recorked and put away in. a cupboard (afterwords locked) eight feet away from where he- was' discovered dead. A dozen people swore to* the will being in the clerk's writing, which, had a peculiarity of style, and, upon examination, the ink in which ifc was written was found to be the ordinary kind, drying within two or three minutes. Moreover, nobody but the clerk had any idea thatf he had been, robbing his. employer, than whom no one was more surprised by the "discovery. Was -the will written after death?

What became of Marie Cranvar? is a question which agitated the sensationlovers of all Paris a few years ago. -It 'is still unanswered, though attempts to explain her disappearance have been made by the hundred. None of them would bear careful consideration.

The girl, who was about eighteen, was walking with her father, a clerk in. the .employ of the Paris Municipal' Council. Tbey were crossing an open square, when the father stopped to look round after someone wiho had just passed them. The ! father declared that ihe had not turned his back upon his daughter for more than twenty seconds when he faced round to find the young woman, had vanished, and < that he was . ' Tl THB ONLY PERSdN VISIBLE. There were no shops or houses ©ear, and he had not heard any sounds whatever. Except for a railing, ■$» square was open on, three sides, and the fourth side was endosed by a boarding no woman could hare : scaled.

Unstinted efforts to discover the girl were only met by failure. At first the police absolutely refused to believe that the girl could have disappeared as her father described, but eventually they admitted that she must have done bo.

"It 'was as if a hand had come down from the heavens and snatched her from her father's side into invisibility," is the comment of a., writer^ recording the career of a detective who was concerned in the case. Nothing has ever since been heard or seen of the girl, and the quedtonjof !how did she go is still without am «*wer.