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New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 11605, 20 March 1901, Page 6

Of the 115 persons unlawfully executed in America, in 1900, 107 were negroes, and of the total numbei oflynchings all but eight took place in the south. Indiana, Kansas, and Colorado, are the northern . States that indulged in lynch law last year. In Indiana three coloured men, one of them innocent, were lynched; in' Colorado, two coloured men and one white man suffered the penalty, one of the coloured men being tortured in the most fiendish manner. Kansas chose two white men as its victims. In 16 years 2583 persons have been lynched in the United States, an average of 161 a year. The number in 1900 was considerably below (he average, but it was somewhat in excess of the record for 1899, a fact which weakens the inference that lynching is on the decline. " Joseph," the ex-valet de chambr© of Felix Faure, has written a book. Joseph did not begin and end his carriere with the late President, but has foi years attended to ,the wants of M.' Caaimir Ferier, Mine. Juliette Adam, the Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria, the Duke of Connaught. the Prince of Monaco, Gambetta, the Grand Duke Vladimir, and, at last, M. Paul Bour'get, of whom he say- :"I have been most useful to M. Bourget, for it is I who taught him how to sit without creasing the toils of his frockcoat, or, what is worse, part them like an epicier. Before my time he used to buy his cravats with ready-made bows, he wore cotton socks and flannelette night-shirts, he purchased his perfumes at the Louvre— where; he was hardly presentable." The census taken in St. Petersburg on December 27 shows that the population of the Russian capital is approximately 1,500,000 persons. The exact figures will not be known till the end of the year. The Blackburn magistrates recently fined William Gildert, a herbalist, £5 and costs for selling herb and sarsaparilla beers by retailing them for consumption on off-premises without a license. The .beei was found to contain more than two-thirds the strength of ordinary public-house beer. Gildert said the customers liked the beer sweet. The Berlin police are about to be provided with 20 bloodhounds, to be used in the tracking of murderers. About 24 murders committed in Berlin during the last 14 years are still unexplained. , v LUXURIANT. LUSTROUS HAIR, with a clean, wholesome scalp, free from irritating and scaly eruptions, is the result of warm shampoos with CTJTICURA SOAP, followed with light dressings with OuTICTOA, purest of emollient skin cures, the most effective skin, scalp, and. hair purifiers and beautifiers in the world. This treatment will clear the scalp and hair of crusts, ' scales, and dandruff, soothe irritated and itching Bin-faces, stimulate the hair follicles, and supply the roots with energy and nourishment.