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Bush Advocate, Volume V, Issue 354, 16 August 1890, Page 10

It is stated in Calcutta that Sir Frederick. Roberts, who was appointed Commander-in» Chief in November, 1885, will leave India early next year. According to the same report, Lord Wolßoley will probably succeed him. Young Clarke, of Freeport, Nebraska, who had been paying attention to Miss M'lntyjre, proposed to her, and when she rejected him, shot her in the chest. He then blew out bis brains. Doctors say the girl will die. General Boulanger has retired. He has ex* pressed a desire that there should no longer be any intermediary between himself and his supporters, and has therefore pronounced the dissolution of the National Committee. At Killaveney, county Wicklow, Patrick Kenny, the village blacksmith, was attemptingthe feat of lifting with his teeth 3icwt. attached to a rope, which he held in his mouth, when the ropo suddenly slipped and cut off his tongue. Paper railway carriages are actually contemplated. It is said at Basle that they will shortly be tried on the Emmenthal railway. Theso carriages, which are composed. of specially pre-' pared paper, are ju9t about half the weight of ordinary carriages. Gustav Jovanovitch, the greatest cattle breeder in Russia, died recently. He was called " the " King of the Steppes." His landed property consisted of 600,000 acres. # He was the possessor of more than a million sheep and about 31,000 shepherd dogs. A county court in Berks (U.S.) has granted a divorce to a woman who, in a period of four years, was shot at four times by her hußband, and struck on the head with a hatchet on anotheroccasiou. This was pretty strong evidence of incompatibility of temper. Lord Foley, an associate of Charles James Fox, anticipated the Jubilee Plunger, duo allowance being made for the limited scale of opportunity in his day. He started in life with £100,000 cash and £18,000 a year, and he lost every penny of it on tho turf. Mr. Dilworfch Choate, the New York JForlti reporter, who was indicted for hiding himself in a grand jury room, and giving publicity to conversations which took place between membore of that body, was brought up for trial at New York recently, and fined lOdol. It is stated that a gun, measuring 6Jft. by 9in., has been discovered at a spot in Jake Point, and brought up to Calcutta. The most curious thing about the gun is that it bears a Sanskrit inscription in gold. Those who have seen it ascribe it to some ancient Hindoo king. William Leaphart, a coloured man, was shot and killed in the gaol in Lexington, South Carolina, by an irate mob. He had boon convicted of felonious assault upon a young girl and sentenced to bo hanged, but had been respited to allow time for a motion for a new trial. A pair of shoes that has become stiff and uucomfortablo by constant wear in the rain may have a coat of vaseline applied, rubbing it in well with a cloth, and in a short time the leatherbecomes as soft and pliable as when it Lftakeu rom tho shelves of the shoe dealer Mr. O. M. Burt and his bride, of Fairfield, Nebraska, arrived at Grand Island, on their wedding trip, and stopped at tho Hotel Dumpling. Tho next morning Mrs. Burt was found cloud in bed, and Mr. Burt was unconscious, with no hopo of recovery. The gas had apparently been blown out. An exciting pistol match has taken place at Munich between Buffalo Bill's Johnny Daly and Prince Leopold of Bavaria. The object was to break plaster eggs which were thrown into the air. Prince Leopold proved himself a marvellous shot, defeating his adversary without the (slightest difficulty. Tho American authorities recently captured at San Diego, California, twenty-one Chinamen who had been smuggled into tne country from Mexico. Tho Treasury has decided to put them on board a steamer at San Francisco and send them to China, this being 6afer than expulsion to Mexico, whence they might return. A pullet belonging to a Sheffield resident has laid an extraordinary egg. It was of unusual size, and weighed nearly soz. On its being poncd it was found to possess two yolks ; but, more remarkable still, it contained a second perfectly -formed egg, the latter being about the size of a pullet's first egg. The egg is almoßt as large ac a swan's.