GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 8928, 17 December 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

The crime of leu i n™ There i 8 a girl named Leila l a life-term in the Dade coJu " BSr vin» Savannah, the story of whose cri °° Sl min <* what strange. Her father a " me 18 lived near Martin, in the »«.;! ' Bar gey state. He had two daughters th PSrt of 'n» of whom was Leila. About th» **£ he joined the church, and hen year J church attendant. He was n 3 re §i» that his two daughters, now grow'n? to J hood, did not care to attend th °® 1 o« services with the regularity that? where all should have been dld >»M bitterest kind of discord grew !° n acor(l th while Burgess told the girls t h£ Aft was about to open, and he ami J/ tev attend every service, and if th , tbeia there would be somebody to W £ y » d Cat , mornings the girls failed to ™ ot Banriß ° meetings. 0a the f o £ r t! " Burgess pulled the girls out of\™ otDi "B began to chastise one 0 f th«m bed and When he had beaten her h *° '"4! began on the other. Leila ww® 181011 ts first one chastised, slipped out ofV" th ' procured an axe, and with one Vt-i ' J oo ®, the edge of it in her father's skull £ ie<l was five inches long and nen»t-, V, ihe gash half an inch. Afterwards the gir bts ' a sullenly at the dead body of i, lo ° si oblivious of the crowds whirl, f , stll <r, behold the scene of blood. She * ed "i to of the highest grade of manalauoiT 7 ' took her place among the couS atli plamingly, merely saying that 1 onl, commit the crime over again hpfl ,l Woul i be compelled to go to church L ! ojll the morning. 0 ear ia DEPARTURE OP MISSIONARIES: AY SCENE. " Err£Ct »J A remarkable scene was wihi oot , •> Royal Albert Dock«, Plymouth ? n ! ) lhe 23, when no less than 25 mission-,*' ® otol) for China, Japan, and India iefM,' , and O steamer Khedive Ihev J A 6 the Church of England 0111 Methodist, Baptist, and China Inland Mi 6 "' 0 ' and are the advance guard of a large n, of missionaries who will foll ow £ ° u ® ber societies during this winter A S nl 'i e,s conveyed to the docks 450 friend.'.f'l? voyagers, among them many di; ing ! Si gentlemen connected with the 1 societies. The scene on board and on*,? 115 when the Khedive moved off Wa ? orL affecting, valedictory hymns being 8n tne quays and hearty cheers gi 7ea mill? with shouts of " God Save China" Si Bless India." A touching valedictory'J? votional «eryiccwas held at Highbury Park Chapel, presided over by the Her. J, atephe fl3

THE POISONING OF A WEDDING PAr In connection with tha poisonous weddin, cake at J arrow, from the ill effects of w2 20 people are now known to have snffe^ the report of the County toff®! Stock) has been received. It states that it icing on one of the cakes contained *>EJ cent. Of arsenic. The baking powder, £ sugar, and castor sugar obtained by the mH of the cake contained no traces of poison no, did a second cake made by the bride's Bister in-law._ Arsenic in its white state could not be obtained from a chemist, who is compelled to sell it coloured. The police are contiwj their investigations into the singular affair. GERMANY AND RUSSIA. The race-hatred between Germany and Russia is infinitely more intense than that between Germany and France. Germany and France have very strong grounds for quarrel, and detest each other accordingly but they only hate as the French and English used to _ hate. The Germans hate the Russians in the spirit which duringthe Middle Ages the Christians showed against the Turk. The Germans do not look upon the Russians as they look on other civilised Powers. To them a Russian invasion is dreaded not as is the march of the Austrian! or the French, but as a barbarian inroad, Such horror as the Teuton feels for the Slav breeds a hate of a kind far more dangerous and far more unreasoning than that which comes of a merely national quarrel, however, bitter. This feeling, which is well understood in Russia, as may be imagined, does not mike the Russians friendly. They know that the Germans think every Russian a Cossack or a Tartar, and they feel towards their neighbours accordingly. Beyond this, too, jealousy plays a very great part in the manner with which the S'av regards the Teuton. The jealousy of a partially-civilised race towards a civilised one, of a people who live in a dreary, barren, unfruitful land towards those who inhabit one far richer and more pleasant is always strong. This jealousy, that of the poor man toward the rich, the riussians feel. Add that among the Slavs exists a deep presentiment that they are the coming race in Europe, that to them belong the future, and it is hardly to be doubted that Russia and Germany bate with a hate that is absolutely inextinguishable. A STORY ABOUT BISMARCK.

I hear a characteristic story about Princa ! Bismarck. While at dinner at Friedrichsiahe he received a telegram and immediately excused himself to his guests, in order to write an answer. " But, Durcklaucht, at least first finish your soup," pleaded a guest. "Impossible," answered Bismarck ; " this telegram is from by son Herbert, who does not like to be kept waiting. If I waited he would Bend another telegram. He is very industrious"— with a sigh; "ifin my youth I had been half as industrious, I might have amounted to something."

A SET BACK FOB HYPNOTICS. Hypnoticism has had a severe set back in Berlin police circles. A murderer had 83 far defied detectives. Thereupon a medium placed a subject in a trance and got from Iter a full description of the murderer, his present surroundings and friends, and, finally, by gigantic efforts, the street and house number and a description of the Berlin dwelling in which the said murderer lay concealed. Tnere was joy in the official heart until it wasdis'' covered that the location described was vacant lot.

ELECTRIC LIGHT ON BOARD THE NEW SWEDISH IRONCLAD SVK4.

This installation comprises 13216 candle incandescent lamps ; the dynamo gives, with. 900 revolutions a minute, a current of 140 am* peres, and is so constructed that four-fifths of the lamps can be put out without the dynamo becoming warmer. The dynamo is driven by a three-cylinder steam engine, of J. E. Ericson's patent, connected direct with the axle of the dynamo ; the regulator is of the Albert Soderstrom system, which ensures the engine under all circumstanses keeping its fixed speed, independent of the number of lamps burning. The incandescent lamps are divided into two sections, one above and one below the armoured deck. The lighting of the deck is effected by the aid of two large arc lamps, which, as is generally the cane on board men-of-war, have hand regulators; the one placed in two reflectors witb mirrors of 60 centimetre diameter (Mangins system). These lamps are driven by a three»oyhnder engine, similar to the one used for the in* candescent lamps. The fixing of the different lamps and wires has by no means been an easy task, and special precautions of various kinds have had to be taken. The whole of the installation has been done by the woll-known firm of J. E. Kricson mek« aniska Yerkstadsbolag, Stockholm.

FORDHAM AND HIS PUPIL. Poor Fordham was a warm admirer of Tom Cannon, "my boy," as he always called him, and Cannon cordially acknowledges that almost everything he has learnt from any other sonrce except personal experience he gathered from George Fordham. » curious instance of the delicacies of the art oj horsemanship was shown some years a,|C at Newmarket. A race lay between the re* spective mounts of Archer and Cannon, ana as following Archer was the persistent h» bl ® of many backers, he was favourite. p a Fordham fancied the mount of his old * rie °. and pupil, and when the flag had fallen stow close* to the rails to see the horses comingA long way from home the rest of the_ tie was beaten, and the two came on by the • selves, Fordham watching with his wo bent as if he were—as probably he was imagination— the horse. They neared post, "Sit still. Tom! sit at'M' °. George muttered, just audibly. *{* it I Good boy ! Sit still, sit still! 1" with a sudden start, he clapped one. into the palm of the other hand « then, Tom ! Now then 1" ho sharply orieo, and the odd thing was at the very moment to the tick of the second when he 8 P ~1 Tom Cannon, who was now within some yards of the post, saw also that the time come, and with one vigorous effort r°' horse home and won by a head, cor could not have been more delighted it ae n won a big race himself. The rider an ,, 1 the great horseman who was watching do : knew to the fraction of a second " en , make the rush, and had it not been m precisely at that second there can be l doubt that the head victory would ha a head defeat *