MAIL NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3842, 17 June 1875, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

Here is something else they manage better in France A man and a woman who enticed a young girl from her home to lead a life of debauchery, have been sentenced in Paris to imprisonment for five and seven years respectively. Yicomte de Chabot, aged ninety-four, and still living in Ireland, is the father of Count de Jarnac. who recently died in London while residing there as French Ambassador; but they do not tell the old father of the death of bis son for fear of killing him. The Bishop of Carlyle, speaking at a temperance meeting, questioned the efficacy of Acts of Parliament to deal with the question of intemperance. He said Acts of Parliament were not so strong as people imagine 1. The prosecution for cruelty iolncnas failed because hyenas were not domaslicatcd animals. Tlx ■ law for the protection Of woman was so ineffectual that a man could kick a woman almost to death piovidcd she were his wife. He shpuld, however, be well pleased to, sec men who kicked their wives treated with an application of that other domestic animal—the cat.

Here is how J)r Kenoaly speaks in the ‘ Englishman ’ of the newspaper press : “The ‘ Saturday Review, 1 in that shameless spirit of lying which is (he ehavacterEtiu of our corrupt press, says that Dr Kenoaly’a meetings were all tin own open to the public, and that the public went in thousands, having nothing better to do. This Is the way in which Mr Bevesfol’d Hope’s paper deceives and deludes its wretched snobs of readers, And the honorable proprietor duos not refuse to accept the wages of sin. We congratulate (Jurubudgfi University updn its representation by this individual. We hear lie is not a bad fellow on the whole, but why does he allow his paper to circulate falsehoods ? We shall be glad if our readeis will send us the namesof those whii publish lying journals, l ut have not the pluck to put their names to them. Walter of the. ‘ limes’ Morlcy of the ‘daily News’ is another,. some Newcastle rag is a third, Mr hmsford Hope is a fourth, that poor old beggar for a baronetcy, Baines of Leeds, is a fifth ; but Leeds, to its c.iedit, got rid of such a m : .sivpivsen..ative. Kow all these men cry out against the ‘ jSngltehniaiV hich is perhaps the only truth-telling paper in England, while their own journals team with falsehoods day by day and week by weeks. 1 ’ I A hiong t the curious facts which carao out before a committee of the House of Commons on foiclgu loans was the following. nduras, which a few y> avs ago pledged its entire customs ctvenue for i.4,000, ha;nowhorrow-d ive millions in England. It is needless to say that a great part of tho money went to brokets and promoters. Mr Davids, a former clerk of the contractors for the Honduras Loan, was appointed one of the trustees for it. bir M. James, examiung him, said: —“I see from your minute-book that a meeting of tmstees was hold on 10th Iff arch, [the entry in the minute-book is as f Hows : —’ Brest nt L. Davids, Esq. The minutes of the preceding meeting were read and con fumed ’] Was that done unanimously?” MrD-vids : “ Certainly.” L’he Paris correspondent to a contemporary says : -The Minister of Justice has just received n report of a very sad and extraordinary affair, which is not unlikely to create

some Renation. Thirty years ago a young girl named Marie Guernie was found poisoned in her bed. She had been bethroted a short time before to a young man with whom her sister Madeline was said to be desperately in love. The poor girl was at once arrested, tried, and finally condemned to death, which she suffered calmly and valieantly, without uttering a word of complaint or of jurisdiction. Everybody felt the greatest sympathy for the poor old father of the two girls, who was giving signs of the most violent grief. He had come into possession of some money which the girls had inherited from their mother, but his grief did not seem to be lessened thereby. _ A fortnight ago the old man died, and before his death confessed to his parish priest, the Rev. Abbe Barreau, that he was himself the murderer of his eldest daughter. He had, moreover, allowed suspicion to rest on the younger in order to inherit the money of both. The poor victim had died innocent without uttering a word in her defence, because she knew who was the murderer, and rather chose to die than to denounce him to justice. The use of the spectroscope in the testing of metals is extending, and is regarded as of especial value where issential, for which reason it is employed in the coining establishments of Europe, and has been recently introduced into the United States Mint. The way in which the instrument detects even the most minute qunntity is marvellous. At the new Opera House in Paris there is a laboratory on a scale w Inch rivals that of the proudest university. The electrict light is thrown on the stage by a battery of 360 Bunsen elements. There are large gasometers for the production of the oxi-hydrogen light. All the recent improvements in the application of that, light and sound have been brought to contribute to the comfort and gratification of the audience. When “ Moses in Egypt is performed, a yeritable rainbow is produced on the stage by the decomposition of light by means of watery vapor, ibe electric batteries, unequalled in power, will probably be made available for scientific research. The Government subsidy to the opera is 4,000,000 francs. If only one-tenth of this amount had been directly to the cultivati -u of science, a better return for the money would have been realised.

An Uncompleted Match.—A Philadelphia chap bet a hundred dollars that he could eat 50 quarts of peanuts in 25 hours. He got away with 40 quarts, and then the undertaker got away with him.