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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3328, 22 August 1879, Page 3

A good story is told of Judge Kent. A man was indicted for burglary, and the evidence on the trial showed that hia burglary consisted in cutting a hole through a rubber tent, in which several persons were sleeping,, and then projecting hia head and arm through the hole and abstracting various ariicles of value. It was claimed by his counsel that, inasmuch as he never actually entered into tlia tent with his whole body, he had not committed the offence charged, and must, therefore be discharged. Judge Kent, in reply to this plea, told the jury that if they were not satisfied that the whole man was involved in the crime, they might bring in a verdict of guilty against so much of him as was thus involved. The jury after a few moments of consultation, found the right arm, the right shoulder, and the head of the prisoner juilty of the offence of burglary. Tbo Judge sentenced the right arm, the right

% shoulder, and head to imprisonment at labour in the State Prison for two remarking that, as to the rest of ">— his body, he might do with it what he pleased. " The Harrisburg Patriot is responsible for the following:—"Benjamin Singerly, formerly proprietor of the State journal, and State Printer for a term of years, who died suddenly after travelling from Philapelphia to Pittsburg one hot day about two years ago, was a very heavy man, weighing from 350 to 403 pounds. He was interred at Pittsburg. A few weeks ago- therelatives of Mr Singerly made arrangements to have him resurrected and taken to Philadelphia, where his parents' S* 4 <«her relatives are buried. When c! person to whom the work was entrusted had dufc down to the top of the casket, they were surprised to find that no offensive odour prevailed. The rough box wag, opened, but the attempt to remove the casket from it was ineffectual, on account of its extraordinary weight. When the lid was removed the face and body were found to have undergone petrification —they had assumed the colour of yellow marble, and the entire face and form seemed like one mass of marble chiselled from a block, not one of the features or lineaments being out of place or unnatural in the slightest degree. The body was raised from the grave by means of a block and fall, and was found to weigh, when weighed for transportation to Philadelphia 980 pounds." 'i A little five-year old boy, who had seen a peacock for the first time, ran into the house exclaiming to his sister, "Oh Lizzie! I've seen a great, great, big monstiferous tail walking around with a hen tied to it." ' .