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Lyell Times and Central Buller Gazette, Volume VI, Issue 273, 15 May 1886, Page 4

In Berlin there is a house which contains 282 compartments, and is inhabited by nearly 1000 persons. An artless little girl, aged nine, was found begging the other day in New York. She was shivering, and told a pitiful tale of a sick father and mother. The agent of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, followed her home, and found her father reading a novel before a good fire, and the mother in an equally comfortable condition.

Intelligence from Pesth states that the Protestant schoolmaster of Mezcetur, near Szolnok, on the Theiss, has murdered his young wife and three children, and afterwards committed suicide. Before the act he compelled his wife to write a confession of her unfaithfulness to him, shooting her as soon as she had signed it. A young servant girl was witness of the scene, being compelled to stand by holding a candle while the wife was writing her confession.

Nearly two years ago the children of Professor Graham Bell, the telephone patentee, whx)se wife is a deaf mute, were stricken with fever. After being very ill with it, they began slowly to mend, but with every one of them the hearing became affected, and it is doubtful if they will f,ver recover it.