GENERAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXV, Issue 8962, 28 January 1888, Page 2 (Supplement)

GENERAL NEWS.

PROTECTING THE BANK OF ENGIA,^ Thb Bank of England doors ' ar e finely balanced that a clerk by I ta knob under his desk, can clo ße the out !?*» instantly, and they cannot be °° r « except by special procese. This is h ag,ia prevent the daring and ingeniou* u^? 9 *» cf the metropolis from robbing The bullion department of this id "*• banks are nightly submerged sever,) f ° thir water by the aotion of the machine,?' j a some banks the bullion departmeut i a nected with the manager's Peering ron C ° n, an entrance cannot be effected lnl shooting a bolt in the dormitory whi'u 011 * turn sets in motion an alarm if . during the day should happen to knrlt' tat one from a pile of half-sovereigna the V. 5 pile would disappear, a pool ot water m 7 !' its place. c *J£ic g i THE MVSTKRIOUS NEW GCX. A Paris correspondent writes --"j mention that some days ago I bullet of the new Lebel gun. There no harm in describing its appearance", 11 in the event of a war these miesilea wLu? the firet thing to fall, or rather to flj the enemy's bauds. Besides, the ( " IDto are known to have stolen a few In shape it is conical, but the tin is" »i 5 flattened. It is a trifle under one-thi d • an inch in diameter and somewhat over "' inch in length. The bullet is made of a .h! of German silver, about one-twcutitth of inen in thickness, tilled in with an'allot lead hardened with antimony." '°J HATS AND HE A D>l. When the Rev. Dr. Parker waa deliver! his Beecher eulogy in the Academy of Brooklyn, several worthies were acti?'? 1 ' engaged in examining Dr. Parker'3 silk h7 Just then a well-known banker, whose r , of business is not far from the cornet* Court and Montague Streets, j The hat was shown him, aud lie tried it He went in up to his coilar, ami then drew with a remark concerning the ar i was built to cover. Whiie he was waiti'" for his cheque another late comer arrived the person of a prominent lawyer, with da k" wavy locks ; he wears a7i hat. The grej ; divine's head-gear, however, also buriedbi to the chin. The legal larmnary gave dlim to a gentleman who would like thecontraa for the St. Johnland farm buiidiaga, but tf head—and he is not lacking in tneutal calibre —disappeared in the recesaea of the London! made tile. A group of gentlemen well. known in the city came last. One j 3 t i e manager of an insurance con:u?.nv, anotbe the head of a city department, aod »nok»r a Brooklyn justice. On all their heads th» tile of the distinguished orator went, only to bend their ears downward and glide g r 'a> fully toward their necks. An ttfort wai tried to find the size mark in tne hat, but i< had become efiectualiy erased by lon^'wesr LIVING WITH HI.S HEiRT CUT OPES, A special to the New York World from?! Paso, Texas, dated November 20th, tayg .1] A case of peculiar interest to medical m e: was developed here to day. Last evening t Mexican named Kice stabbed another Meiican named Farado in the heart. Ths wounded man stood up, and even walked with a little assistance. He was undresiei and the wound was sewed up, when he suddenly fell back and expired, having lived nearly two hours after being stabbed. Br McKennon held a post mortem to-day, ani on removing the heart found that tbe bite of the murderer, evidently a Btiletto, hai penetrated the left ventricle of the heart, making a gash of about a quarter of an inch wide. According t<) all medical theories, the doctor said, the man should not hare lived over ten minutes, if that long. "The only explanation of the phenomenon which I can see," s*id Dr. McKennon, "is that the blood clotted at once and filled up the small hole made by the stile'.to. As tar a< 1 know, the case is unprecedented." A PAFEU-EATISG CIKL,. There is a young lady cf Boeton who ii very much addicted to eating paper. Erery clean speck of this article that comes in her way is immediately put into her mouth. She happened to be in a counting room the other day, and after she had departed the gentleman missed a cheque that he had made on! that morning and laid upoa his de3k. 1; was sought for high aud low, but coalJ no;

be found, and, finally, as a last resort, a messenger was sent to the fair caller to a-k if ahe had seen it. She returned answer is followe :—"Dear Mr. Blank: There wan nice, smooth, ehiny piece of paper ;u f rat of uie in your office and 1 ate it. Could it bve been that?" The payment of the chequewu stopped, though this proceeding was deemri unnecessary, MAEKIED HIS FORMER WIFS APTER TWESTYONE YKAHS' SKPAKATiOX. Thirty-four years ago Clark Cievel»nd,oi Kansas city, then thirty-six years oii married Clarion Clinton, aged nineteen. Tii couple lived together for nearly fourteea years, when they became estranged, aci rinally — twenty • one years ago — wer; divorced, i>aet week the two, who had ail the time been living in this city and neithe: of whom had remarried, met accidentally (! a mutual friend's house. The exuhusbanc, now aged seventy, fell in love again with ha former wife, proposed, and was accepted, and the couple went quietly to Wyit dotte and were married by the Probat Judge there. A IIOTHER«IN-LAW TO BE AVOIDED. Mothers-in-law will always, no doubt, continue to be the sport of the novelist, but it does nut always happen that they are daugeroue in real life. An exception, however, must be made in the ca«e of a Kasiian mother-in-law, Mdme. d'Elson, who has jnit endeavoured to murder her son-in-law, » Paris painter. M. Favardt, the victim ia question, was travelling in Italy, when h met Mdme. d'Elson and her daughters, on; of whom, Mdlle. Eenedicte, he wooed asi won. The marriage was not, however, i happy one ; there was a divorce suit at Nice, and judgment was given in favour of tb husband. Aα appeal was made at Air, bat rejected; and the ladies then went before the tribunal of Nimes, to which the jiartisi had been sent by the Court of Cassation. The husband had to appear at Nimes, and won his cause once more. This so eursgel bis mother-in-law that she armed berse.' with a big revolver and went to the hotel where M. Favardt wae staying. "I hare J letter here from your wife," said the irata lady to her eonin-law, and as he was reaii , ing it under a lamp she tired four shots it him from her pistol, One only of the bulleti took effect. It hit the man in the jaw, bat, although weakened by loss of blood, M> Favardt wao able to seize and disarm the infuriated woman and to shut her up in' room before she could effect any mod mischief. DEATH OF A FEMALE STOWAWAY. Daring the passage of the Isle of M»" Steam Packet Company's steamer Pevenl, from Liverpool to uouglas, some Beamed while looking for some gear in the space between the funndl and the protecting casing, were shocked to discover the dead body of» woman. She had evidently concealed heree.t for the sake of evading payment of her f«' before the furnaces got heated, s.od bad afterwards been suffocated as the heat id* creased. She had Is 54d, in her possession, but nothing to afford any clue to her identity. CHARITY AND LOXPRY, Preaching recently on behalf ot the Londot Hospital Fund, Archdeacon Farrar said tn» : there are scoree of men in the metropolis who, almoat without feeling it, cuuld save tin hospitals from anxiety. After calling attention to the facts of £2000 having not long »g° been given for a dessert service, £3000 for» chimney ornament, £10 000 for a couple o. rose-coloured vases, of £300 being the pris« charged for a lady's dress, and £1000 paid tot flowers for a ball, he asked, " Wliy the runnel of charity dribble on as it aot> while the full tide of luxury still is at flood.

AN INCIDKNT OF LORD MAYOR'S DAT. Mr. V. P. Dunkley, managing director t« the Waterbury Watch Compauy, was eDfflmoned for fixing a line across Holbora Viaduct, to which was suspended a watch, bo ato cause an obstruction. Police Inspector Izzard gave evidence that on Lord Mayor" Day his attention was attracted to a an , orderly crowd outside 17, Holborn Vudact. From an upper window of No. 17 » hne "T , sent out which went right across the ro»o, and ia the centre there was a wheel, w> over this was a piece of string to wbicn watch was attached. The etring wae c ° u trolled by people in No. 17, who contmu.1 y let it down almost within reach of the peoj and theu pulled it up again. The effect» that several thousand people aseemblea, they were raving, shouting, and st ru .g«"Z Somethiug eventually went wrong wiw etring and a tall man in the crowd got aw J with the watch. There was some doubt to whether the defendant was the re»i F offending, and Sir F. Truscott therefore u» missed the summoos.