MISCELLANEOUS.

West Coast Times, Issue 7233, 3 January 1889, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The following story o£ an attack in open coiut by a prisoner on his Judge cornea from Nassau, the capital of the Bahamas. On the 27th July tho Supreme Court was opened by Chief Justico Austin, and the fiist business was the sentencing of one Thomas Taylor to seven years' ponal servitude. As soon as tho

s&ntonco was uttorod the prisoner darted from the police, reached the bench, and struck the Judge heavily twice with a largo baton. lie was prevented from delivering the tirot blow directly on the Judge's head by a light ncrcen, and when the second was delivered Taylor was impeded by onu of tho officers of tho Court. Taylor was overcome after a considerable struggle, the railing of the witness-box being Lorn away. Tho Chiat Justice was Jnofc seriously injured, and three days after tha occurrence he h>.d sufficiently recovered to pass judgment on j his assailant. 'J'ayloe waa sentenced to thirty lashea in Naasa-i prison the follow- i : ing afternoon, and to bo kept in pen.il , j servitude for the rest of his life. I i The man who cornea to tho station two I minutes behind time, aud sees the train I scudding out at the other cud, derives no i I satisfaction from tho proverb '' Better | , late than never.". ! ; For a remarkable and tragic scene on | I tho top of a Paris tram car a scolding wiie i has been responsible. It was the big I vehicle which plies between the Louvro | and Vincennes and as the horses attached I to it were placidly bowling along tho Boulevard Voltaire, the passengers on the •'knife-board" wero ra'her amused to hear a boisteioua altercation between two I of their number, a rather mottle-faced I bourgeoise and her mild-ejed, melancholy spouse The vixenish Xantippe upbraided her pood man for having cast sheep's eyes afc a youthful apprentice milliner who was near 'him. She called him opprobrious names, and the luckless Benedict, dismayed at the attacks of his irate partner and the ili-timed cachvn&tioYi of his fellow pa c sengers, threw himself head foremost from the top of the tram. : The mild-eyed melancho'y one was assisted off the ground by two policemen nnd taken to a chemist's shop. He had not "fallen to pieces," but his injuries wero serious and necessitated his removal to the hospital. The Queen of Sweden is undergoing peculiar treatment to restore her nerves to a normal condition . Her doctors have ordered her to rise early, make her own bed, and dust and sweep the room, She has to tako a walk ia the garden before breakfast, work among the flowers afterwards, and le;id an active outdoor existence all day long. Alrsady the Queen has been benefited by fchia curious " cure." A Church of England clergyman, who was travelling en the Continent, was exceedingly partial to a peculiarly hot kind of pickle, a bottle of which he invariably carried about with him wherever he went. An Amtricau, who was seated next to him one day at table cVhute, thinking these pickles were for general use, began to help himself. "I beg your pardon, sir," interrupted the clergyman, *• those pickles are aiine ; but help yourself by all means, you're quite welcome to try them." The American thanked him and tasted them. " Stranger, I guess you'ra a parson ? ' "I am," responded the clergyman — (A slight pause.) " Stranger, do you believe in eternal punishment, everlasting fire, and all thc\t aoit of thing ?" " Certainly I do. But why do you ask ?" I kinder thought so. Well, 1 calculate you're the fust parson I'vo met who carried samples about with him." While Tying to avoid beinj; his ed by a woman, George Vindle, of BUtimore, fell down a stairway and was instantly killed. This is probably tbe first instance of the kind on record. A man sometimes is willing to give his life for a kh?, but never to avoid one.