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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XV, Issue 46, 9 March 1888, Page 31

Sixteen youths of Dromore have been sentenced to imprisonment for one week with hard labour for lighiing bonfires to celebrate the release of William O'Brien. Sir Thomas Henry Grattan Bsmonde, whose mother was a grand-daughter of the famous Grattan took but little interest in Irish politics until he received an accidental shot in the knee while hunting in Tipperary. During his enforced retirement he read largely of works on Irish history and politics, with the result of making him one of the most earnest of Home Rulers. The speaking telephone has been successfully used in ministering to fever patients without running the risk of infection. A telephone is fixed at the bed of the patient and within reach, so that the patient can talk to friends or visitors in other rooms of the house, or listen to a book read. The St. James's Gazette says it has authentic advices from St. Petersburg that an army officer who had been shot in the region of the heart was taken to a hospital, where the doctors declared that bis wound was mortal. The officer thereupon admitted that he had shot himself in order to avoid the necessity of scooting the Czar, He faid he was a member of a secret society which had balloted to decide who should assassinate the Czar and the choice had fallen upon him,