MAIL NEWS.

Evening Star, Issue 3863, 12 July 1875, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

In India they complain tbat since thf opening of the Suez Canel they are overrun by a " class of low Europeans," Glad fchay know how it is themselves.

The newest style of cheap advertising waa produced at Terrs Haute, A child of ninebegan to cry bitterly at the corner c f a street till the crowd grew larger and lurgpr. Nothing would he say till it became larger still, when at last he called out quite loudly, so that all might hear, that they might take him home to " 19 Avenue Road, at Smith, the bootmaker's, who had recently received a fresh importation ef kid shots frcm Paris at from ten to fifteen dollarß a pair." Mme. Oiga de Janina/a Russian princess, recently chastised M.Paul Carsagnac, of the Paris ' Pays,' in a public cafe" Mme. Janina wrote the " Memoirs of a Cossack," in which Abb<s Liszt was pictured. r Jhe 4 Pays' denounced it pretty sharply. So the lady dressed herself in male attire, went to the Cafe* de la Paix, where the writers for that journal are sometimes found, and, finding there only M. de Cassagnac, had a few words with him, and then slashed him severely in the face with a light cane. All the guns on the great ram ' Tauaderer' will be worked by machinery. If they keep on increasing the dimensions of iron clads the notion of men handling them at all will be comparable to ants running a windmill. An English nobleman of high rank has been obliged to sell estates which have been in the family for centuries, in ordrr to clear himself of the difficulties in which his wife had involved him by her passion for gambling. The Duchess cf Manchester is said to have lost L 140.000.

The New York Assembly has enacted a law which grants liberty to convicts sentenced to imprisonment for life, at the expiration of fifteen years of penal servitude. The condition of good behaviour is, of course, made a precedent of the operation of the law. The provisions of the law are also extended to convicts under sentence for twenty-fiva years. The immediate effect of the law will be to set free but two of the inmates; One is a negro monogenarian, sentenced for life for the commission of a burglary somewhere back in the infancy of the Republic, and the other is a murderer. The law is an adoption of the ticket-of-leave idea, and it is thought will tend to lender the convicts more submissive.

A sportsman in India writes Home by last mail: —" I hit a tigress (Bft 6in) the other day in the chest with a spherical ball from my 12-bore double-barrelled ' Dougal' rifl\ 4drs of powder, at about seventy yards off, as it was standing facing me, end on, and the bullet went clean through from end to end. I should not have thought that this was possible." A shocking tragedy, which occurred at the Mount Pleasant Mine, Scranton, is reported by the 'New York Times,' by which two boys, named Henry Welsh and John Owens, were crushed to death in a c.alscreea. Both lads were employed in the screeu-room, with about sixty othura. "cracker boyp," separating the slate from thceoal. Welsh was in the act of stepping across the screen, when his foot was caught; in the ponderous machinr, which was revolving slowly. His cries brought to hii aid his companion Owens, a boy some fifteen years of age, who bravely, and iu tho face of a fearful fate, sought to extricate him. In the effort his arm was caught in the screen, aud before the machinery could be brought to a standstill botii boys were crushed into a shapeless mass. r l he brave contiuct c f the boy Owens, who gave his life in the attempt to save his comrade, is one of the noblest examples of youthful heroi m on record. Some time ago four ladies, who pisrcd the Loudon University examination for women, entered themselves in ths chamber; of wellknown barristers, for the purpose of studiag \a,~v. It was said at the timo that their labor would bo fruitless. It seem 1 ?, however, that the ladies are likely, as the result of their studies, to obtaii profitable employment. One of th<im, whose term of study is closed, has been engage 1 by a firm of Eolicitors as a " consulting counsel.'' "Is the sonso of smelling more pleasing than than that of tasting ?" was the subject before a New York debating club. Skilton was the last to speak upon the negative, and all were anxious to hear him, when, ringing the bell, he ordered up a glass of hot whiskey punch, and drank it up with great gusto. Then, turning to his opponents, ho handed the empty glass to tho ka l. ; ng disputant, and thundered out, " Now, bu\ smell ib i" It is needless to add that Skilton "brought down the house/' ard carried the decision for the negative.

During his long Pon'.ificate, Pope Pin? IX has buried 104 cardinals.