MISCELLANEOUS

Grey River Argus, Issue 54, 17 May 1866, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

The notorious Mr W. & Wiudham died on February 2 at the Norfolk Hotsl, Norwich, rather suddenly. A post-mortem examination of the body showed congestion of the lungs, &.c , produced by hard living, but the immediate cause of his death was the breaking of a blood-vessel in a fit of sickness. Had he lived three or four years longer he would have come into the Han worth estate of some £5,000 a year, in addition to the one he scpaandered. Mi's Windham looses any lenefit from the annuity on his life, and has no interest whatever in the Hanworth estate, the rents of which will accumulate until 1869, to enable certain charges to be cleared off. After 1869 the profits accruing from the estate will be applied as directed in the will of Mr Howe Windham, father of MrW. F. Windham. A few days ago a little boy, 11 or 12 yeai's of age, having' procured some bricks, constructed a trap for the pui'pose of catching larks. Some time afterwards, having observed that the lid of the trap had fallen, he put his hand in to grasp what he supposed to Jje a lark, when an enormous rat, that load been captured, caught him by the little finger and bit it severely. Little notice appears to have been taken of the circumstance until a few flays ago, when he was taken seriously ill, with every symptom of hydrophobia, or of persons ajflticted with delirium tremens. At times wie paroxysms have been so violent that the combined effoi*ts of four men have been almost unable to keep him in bed, while he struggled hard to seize their hands or arms with his teeth, at these times his cries had been dreadful to hear. Little hope is entertained of his recovery^^Whethei;, the rat was mad, or had etning poisonous, or what, i>t^^ Cr^sible to determine. In two compartmen^^K above the other, of a cavern. |^Hi'^ mena-

leojmd and a li^ng^s;xJßHVlß^H| fined = s>±J«'** wr ' E^" in *^ c low© 1 " aTK I .the--•■liflfEer in the upper compartment. Dining a recent night, the hyaena tore up the floor of its cage so as to be able to get his head through. It would then appear that the leopard beneath seized it by the throat, and a terrific struggle ensued. The noise alarmed the watchman, and Mr Manders and others came to the spot. It was then found that the leopard had pulled the hyisiia through the floor, and so tenacious was its hold that, although Mr Manders freely used a heavily-loaded riding-whip on its head and shoulders, the hyeena was quite dead when at' last the leopard was beaten off.