MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume VII, Issue 438, 10 June 1902, Page 1

MAIL NEWS.

Paris, April 11. “ Found—a heart 1 ” In the Church of Val do Grace, Paris, to the left of the altar, is a vault where the Carmelities used to go to pray. There on tables of marblo were arranged hearts of silver and gold. These inclosed the veritable hearts of nuns of noble blood, of kings and princesses, whose bodies reposed in the tombs of St. Denis.

During the revolution these silver and gold reliquary eases were converted into rnonoy. During some repairs at tho church recently one of these heart reliquaries waa found, and through a crack in it the human heart that it contained was visible. It was but a poor looking thing, much like a lump of starch. On the ease itself, half effaced, the inscription, “ Sister Williams,” was deciphered. Among the families who came to Franco with James Smart were some young girls who took the veil in the convents of the Carmelities. What romance may not this poor heart havo held once within its virbrants cells ! London, April 19. Tho meets of tho four-in-hand and coaching clubs have been the distinctive feature of the London season for many years, but they now aro thrown into the shade by the moot in Hyde Park of the Motor Club. London has been slow to “ catch on ” to the motor craze, but now it has it badly. All tho 11 smart ” women havo electric broughams. The old coaching roads to Oxford, Brighton, and Windsor aro to have motor coaches competing with the old-fashioned four-in-hand.

Paris, April 11. Paris is digesting the biggest elephant story in her experience. Tho Viscount of Bourg do Bozas was sent by tho state on a scientific mission to Equatorial Africa in January, 1901. He pursued his researches for many months without any notable event, when one day ho went forth in search of big game. Just at the momont when ho had begun to despair ho perceived two huge elephants looming up before him. Hardly had ho prepared to fire when another charged out of a thicket at him. Tho redoubtable Viscount, nothing daunted, fired two shots at the first, two at tho second and plumped a volley into the third. His deeds of valor did not end here. Three more herculean beasts arrived on tho scone. The six men accompanying tho Viscount quickly relieved him of his emptied weapons and passed him. another loaded one. Then he attacked tho three others with such deadly effect that they too succumbed. Thus in less than four minutes the famous hunter, the Viscount of Bourg de Bozas, killed with his own hand six mighty elephants. Paris, April 19. Laura De Verneuil, who was arrested yesterday for vagrancy, is only twentyfour years old. Five years ago she married a .young man of Boston named Douglas Willard, who was earning a modest salary as a olerk in one of the American banks in Paris.

Laura was a great” heiress, the only daughter of an aristocratic famijy in the provinces. The match was opposed by ner parents, who disinherited her. Three years afterward, when Willard was finally convinced that his wife's relatives would never relent, he coolly abandoned his wife, leaving a letter saying that he had no fault to find with her, but his salary was not sufficient to keep both, and ho had counted on his wife having a fortune, which was not forthcoming. He wished her luck and returned to America.

For the last two years the poor woman, too proud to return to her parents, had sewed in various “ sweetshops ” to support herself. Finally she fell sick and a week ago was driven out of her rooms, being unable to pay the rent. When she was arrested she had bceti wandering-ceaselessly for two days without food. Her parents were notified of her arrest and came here post-haste, but Laura, worn out and delirious, is not yet able to be removed.