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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2332, 23 September 1881, Page 3

Lord Chief Justice Coleridge has dtcidoi that a tricycle workea by steam comes under the operation of the Locomotive Acts, and must therefore be attended by three persons,, must not go at a greater epeed than two miles an hour, and must have its tyres of certain dimensions. The hangman flagged by the Buesian authorities was not punished for the bungling manner in which he elected the Czar’s murderers. The 250 lashes were inflicted because ho sold the ropes that bound the criminals. Those ropes were afterwards cut into thousand* of pieces and sold as relics. Watches are smuggled into Italy from Switzerland through carrier pigeers. Female coachmen is the latest novelty in Paris, contemplated by a new cab company. A witness in an Ottawa Court refused to bo sworn except on the revised New Testament. Twenty-six hundred vessels passed through the Suez Canal last year, and not one belonged to America.