General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5824, 29 September 1887, Page 2

General News.

One great terror has been added to life in London. The British boy is nowhere if he does not possess the imitative faculty, and the peculiar specimen of young humanity inhabiting London is fully aware of thia circumstance. Since the advent of the Hon. F. W. Cody, better known as " Buffalo Bill," with his tribe of Indians, life in London has been, a burden. Every boy who has heard Bed Shirt's patent scream has burned to etna* late it, and the school yards, the streets, and the houses, from the ground floor to the upper attic, are filled with the war cry of the noble red man. Two or three lads will come swooping along the thorough* fares uttering blood-curdling yells, and erer and again they fire their 6-cbambered toy revolvers with terrible effect. 'Tmita* tion is the sincerest flattery," so. says the proverb. But if the festive Bed Shirt heßrd some of the war whoops which float about the purlieus of the metropolis, he would take care to keep his fourth Frenehhorn voice in good going order. He is in effect cut out by the British papooses, and told by them to go home and learn a new yell, as the old one is a frost. Half a dozen London lads gently murmuring for soalpa would terrorise the Indian territory or rule the Bookies, and cause the Indian braves to hide themselves for very shame until their voices developed into something more than human. •

APittsburg (U.S.) paper Hot loo* ago narrated the following particulars of a' tragic event alleged to have taken place: —A melancholy suicide occurred oft Sun* day near PittsviUe, Perm. The following, schedule of misfortunes war found in the victims left boot: "I married a widow who had a grown up daughter. My lather visited our house Very often, fell in lore with my step daughter and married her. fco my father became my son in-law, and my step daughter my mother, heeause she was my father's wife. Sometime afterwards my wife had a son—he wm my father s brother-in-law and my uncle, for he was the brother of my, step-mother. My father s wife, i.e., my step daughter, had also a son; he was, of course, my brother, and, in the meantime, my grand* child, for he was the son of my daughter. My wife was my grandmother because she was my mother's mother. I was mr wife c husband and grandchild at the same time, m* m the Jraibaod of a pet* sons grandmother is bis grandfatheVl. wai my own grandfather!" . . . This seems to bare preyed on the mind of tb« unfortunate man wwfheoQe hn raab tot,