A ROMANCE AND ITS SEQUEL.

Evening Post, Volume XIII, Issue 54, 4 March 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

A ROMANCE AND ITS SEQUEL.

, A sad story has. just been fittingly terminated by the death of the three persons who were its heroes. One jof these "actors was a man of high scientific attainments, an astronomer, and a Fellow of the Royal Society; the

second was a pretty, but illiterate, woman ; the third a miscreant, who has died in prison. The learned man was Mr. Carrington, who lived for many years in ' a lovely and romantic spot, at which he had constructed an observatory, at Churt, near Farnham. One day Mr. Carrington met in Regent-street a good-looking 1 and attractive young woman from Bristol, but of much lower station than he was. Unfortunately for the happiness of all three she had relations with a man named Rodway, but, although Mr. Carrington knew partly her previous history, he married the fair and frail one, who, however, deceived her husband to this extent, that she represented Rodway as her brother. This fellow kept Mrs. Carrington in abject fear of him, and by working on her fears he continually received money from the frightened woman by threatening to reveal her deception to her husband. At length, desperate at losing his sweetheart, and at being refused more money, and failing to induce Mrs. Carrington to run off with him, he visited the lonely house at Churt, and so savagely assaulted her that she narrowly escaped death at his hands. He was apprehended, sentenced to 20 years' penal servitude for attempted murder, and shortly afterwards died in gaol. About a fortnight ago Mrs. Carrington was found dead in bed by her husband when he awoke in the morning, and a few days after the inquest in this case was concluded the police, noticing anunusual quietness about the house, broke open the door and found Mr. Carrington lying dead upon the mattrass. Thus ends a singular romance, the elements of which, if they had formed the foundation of a novel, would be regarded as impossible.

Bald-headed men are only- living a little in advance of their time. According to Darwin, we are indebted to our frisky ancestor, the ape, for our hair, and men with long beards and prolific scalps have no reason to feel that they are particularly superior to their less lovely fellow-men. It may be extinction to the barber business, and a blow to human vanity, but the coming man is to be bald-headed. Is there anything in the world can. beat.' a good wife 1 Yes, a bad hus-, band. In what colors should babies be dressed? Why, in-fancy colors, of, course. Somebody advertises for a machinegirl. Is she any better than a handmaid? A man who spits in a railroad car cannot expec-to-rate as a gentleman. It is easy enough to imitate Josh Billings — thus : Doant karrey egs in your cottale pocket. Egs aint good after they've bin sot on a while. Why is a lady at a ball like, an arrow ? Because she can't go off without a bean,. And is in a quiver till she gets^one. Not Inconsolable. — A couple who have lost their little one, four years old, indicate by the following lines appended to the record of her death that their grief is not inconsolable :—: — "Darling Jennie, thouTiast left us, We miss your sunny smile and winning face; 'Twill be lonely here without you, now, Till another comes to fill your place."