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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 17, 21 July 1887, Page 2

The following shows that the natives of New Zealand are not alone in the idea of makutuing A revolting case of human sacrifice has been under magisterial investigation in the Tirwadnai district of the Madras presidency. The daughter of one Sauthian, of the Pulla caste, was supposed to have been possessed by the devil. Kokangikarers (exorcists) were consulted and one among them after invoking the devil, said nothing short of a human sacrifice would be acceptable to the demon. The father sought means to propitiate the devil. On a certain night, as previously arranged, the father, the exorcist, and five or six others, found a victim, one Savathi Udayan. The unsuspecting drank freely of a fatal drug till he became as a child. The diabolic confederates caught him by the hair and threw him down, then another held him by the bead, two more by his legs, and having thus secured him, one of the gang deliberately out off his head. The blood was collected in a chatty, and subsequently mixed with rice, and a few balls of this mixture was thrown up into the sky for the mischievous deity. This done, they returned to the corpse, which they hacked in sundry places, to deceive appearances, and to put the police on the wrong scent, and threw it into a tank. Au old woman looking at her looking glass and finding that it too faithfully reflected her sunk eyes, wrinkled face , and livid complexion, was overhead to say, “Theyjdo not make mirrors so well as they used to do. ” A young girl became so dissatisfied with her betrothed that she dismissed him, whereupon lie threatened to publish her letters in reveug’. “Very well,” the said! “ there is nothing in the letters to be ashamed of except their address. ” “ Oh, dear!” exclaimed Edith ts her doll, “ 1 do wish you would sit still. I never saw such an uneasy thing in my life. Why don't you act like grown people and b> still and stupid for awhile?” An inquirer asks, “ How can I tell classical music That is easy enough. When you hear everybody applaud and look relieved after the piece is finished, then you may be certain that it is strictly classical. ■ A Chicago girl recently insisted upon throwing her slice after a newly-married couple. The carriage is a total w reck; a doctor has the bride arid the horse under treatment, and large numbers of men are search’ng the ruins coachman.