An Infant Thrown Overboard.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4737, 10 December 1886, Page 3

An Infant Thrown Overboard.

During the voyage of the British ship Gainsborough, from New York to Melbourne, a passenger named Ernest James Nichols is alleged to have thrown his infant girl overboard. The child was lost and Nichols has been arrested. Nichols had already been treated for lunacy, and his conduct throughout the voyage was like that of a madman. His wife has been arrested since her arrival on a charge of being an accessory in leaving the child in his care, knowing that he was unfit to be trusted with it. Mrs Nichols states that she was a nurse with tho British force i.i Soudan. Some of the crew state that the child accidentally fell out of Nichol's arms. Nichols had previously resided in the colonies, having been in Sydney, where ho was engaged as a softgoods clerk, and he still owns property there. A woman is keeping in a book a list of things she ought to purchase, but cannot afl'ori to wear. She calls that book her ought-to buy-«graphy-The millennium will arrive, the Shoe and Leather Reporter thiuks when each person will be " half as good aa he expects his neighbour to be. The Lowell Courier claims to have evolved a neM plaihdrome, that is a sentence that reads the same backward as forward. It is, No it is opposition." An eloping couple in a New Hampshire town left the following terae note behind : " We'v» eloped. Forgive us if you cam; but if yon can't what wi 1 you doaboufc it ? ' A lawyer engaged in a case tormented a witness so much with questions that the poor fellow at lent cried for water. ''There," said the Judge, " I thought you would pump him dry. An amusing and evidently not got-up incident occured at the Eden Theatre iv Brussels one night recently. After Burton the conjuror had performed one or two sleight-of-hand tricks, he stated that he was prepared to make any lady or gentleman disapear whoße suppression might be desired, when a man among the audience called out to him to wait a minute while he went and fetched his wife. Some years aeo, at the Derby, when the jiand prizdwas won by a French horse the Frenchmen present cheered most voc ferously, and, in addition to other expressions of triumph, one of them shouted ' Waterloo avenged ! , Yes,' said Sir William Hare >prt, who was standing by, ' you ran well in both cases.' It is Worth a Trial.—" I was troubled tor many years with kidney complaint, gravel, Ac, my blood beoame thin, I was dull and inactive, oould hardly crawl about, and waa an old worn-out m n all over, and could get nothiug to help me until I got American Co. 'a Hop Bitters, and now my blood and kidneys are all right, and now I am as active as a man of thirty, although I am seventy-two, and I have no doubt it will do as well for others of my age. It is worth U..e trial "—(Father ) Notice.