CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS

Evening Star, Issue 3290, 5 September 1873, Page 3

CLIPPINGS FROM HOME PAPERS

The Wimbledon meeting commenced on July 7. 2, 140 competitors have ent red (or the Queen’s prize and 1,639 for the St. George’s chaVenge vase, 'twenty riflemen have arrived from Canada to take part in the competition Nine thousand immigrants arrived in Now York in one week, making a total of 148,156 since January I.

Nickel facing for printing type is about to come into general use, it is cheaper and much harder than copper, and forms a better surface in every way. This is one of the discoveries of 1872, and already several extensive type foundries are arranging to face all their type with nickel. Canada papers lament the fact that all the best citizens of that country are leaving for the United .Hates. It ia stated that when the Shah visited the Queen at Windsor, he saluted her Majesty with most perfect delicacy and grace, and said that hitherto he had reckoned his years from the day of his birth, but in future be should date them from the hour of bis meeting the Queen of England. William Ford, a tailor, formerly of Bath, drowned himself in Wolverhampton, the cause being domestic troubles, and he was buried there on July 2. Before the colfin was fastened down, his wife tore the shroud from the corpse, attempted to pour rum down the throat, and had to be forcibly removed. When the funeral procession was formed, shs got to the coffin, and, sitting upon it, declined to have it removed. At the grave she stopped the service by her violent manifestations of grief, and it required three men to keep her from throwing herself upon the coffin after it had been lowered. A great crowd had assembled, and there was intense excitement. The clergyman ceased to read, and left the service unfinished. A singular statement was made the other day at the Clerkenwell Police Court. » dancing master, who was prosecuting a max on a charge of assault, admitted, in crossexamination, that ho had never lived with bis wife, for on the day of the marriage he was in her company only ten minutes or a qnarter-of-an-hoiu, and then he left her. Her paientswcre in much better circumstances than he was and it was their wish that he should marry their daughter and then leave her. This he accordingly did.