MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Mataura Ensign, Volume 7, Issue 401, 17 October 1884, Page 6

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

An exhibition of Npses. The latest "novelty in the show burnous i« an exhibition of noses, which has recently been held iv Austria. Eighty persona competed for the prize offered for the most extraordinary na-ial pro'uhernncc in form, size, and color. It was awarded to a com- ; petifcor from Vienna, who is the possefisor of , what is said to be a gigantic nose of deep : violet blue. I A Child with two NosesThe wife of a laborer named Lyon, resid--1 ing at Eilham, Yorkshire, a short time ago gave birth to a female chid with two nosea 1 the one placed over the other. The additional 1 nose is of a dark color, nearly covers the natural one, and and is deficient in the usaal internal organisation. The mother of the child being much concerned about the strange appearance of her unfortunate child, recently consulted Dr A. Allison, of Bridliagton, who had it removed to Lloyd's Cottage Hospital, at that plac«, for the purpose of undergoing an operation for removal of the extra nose. The child is now under treatment, and a considerable portion of the superfluous proboscis baa been successfully removed. Meeting DeathIt is Btrange how many men, brave enough to meet the kind of death to which they have looked forward as natural, shrink from it when it comes to them in unexpected guise. Sailors have been known to drown themselves rather than be shot by pirates nr clubbed to death and eaten by savages. A railroad engineer once, when a doctor predicted that he would shortly die of heart disease, lail himself down one dark night on the railway track in front of an express train and was killed. A doctor, being 1 hope- j lessy caught in a quicksand while riding on horseback, deliberately pulled a bottle of laudanum from his saddlebags and swallowed the contents, in order to be unconscious when suffocation overtook him. And Kobespierre tried to shoot himself through the head a few days before he was guillotined. These incidents are recalled by the story of a brave captain of the French navy, who, crazed by the death of a neighbor from cholera at Toulon, shot himself through the head in order to escape the disease. A New York Mother's Extremity. A six storey house in New York caught fire early on the morning of the Ist of August, and of the five persons who were in it at the time one was burned to death, one fatally injured, and the other three so dreadfully burned that their lives were despaired of. The one who lost his life outright was a child, named James Giobons, four years old. ' The firemen found him in his bed burned to i a crisp. He was the youngest of. three children, the family of John Gibbons, a car- ' penter, who was absent at work at the time, 3 while the mother was preparing his breakfast. The experiences of the poor mother in the [ endeavor to save her offspring were terrible almost beyondexpression. She was unable f to carry the three, and quickly decided to carry the baby and the one nearest to it. With heartrending screams she left her four- ' year-old boy, and with the other two ' hurried through the blinding smoke up two flights of stairs leading to the roof, when she sank exhausted. The flames leaped in about the landing below and sent the smoke to where the mother and children lay. The fire caught her clothing and that of her babies. With a superhuman effort she struggled up' to the roof, the flames and smoke following after her. She could not open the scuttle but the fresh air revived her. She was seen by the firemen, who burst into the adjoining house, aud ascending to the top, tore the burning clothing from mother and children. Their flesh was cooked in some places. They were carried down stairs amid the woman's wails for her little Bon who was left to die. The Baby's DeathThere came a morning at Jast when the baby's eyes did not open. Dr Erskine felt the heart throb faintly under his fingorsj but he knew it was breathing its last. lie trembled for Elizabeth, and dared not tell her. She anticipated him. " Doutor," said she and her voice was so passionate thit it might almost have belonged to a disembodied spirit — .<• I know tuat my darling is dying." He bowed his head mutely. Htr very calmness awed him; " Is there anything you can <io to ease her ?" " Nothing. I do uoc think she suffers," " Then you will please to go a.way. Sue is mme — nobody's but mine, m her life and in her death, and, I waut her quite to myself at last." Sorrowfully , enough he left her. Elizabeth held her child closely, but gently. She thought in thit hour that she had never loved anything else — never ,iv this world, should love anything again^ She wanted . to cry, but her eyes were dry and burning, and not a tear fell on the little upturned fa.cc, changing so fast to marble. She bent over and whispered something in the baby's, ear — a wild, passionate prayer that it would remember her and know her. again in the infinite spaces. A. IQP& seemed ' to answer her— a, radjanti lp,vjng/ look, ' which she thpught must b,e barn of the near ; heaven, She pressed her lips in the last despairing agony of love to the little face, from which already, as she kissed it, the soul had fled. Her white wonder had gone home. This which lay upon her I huugry heart was stone. — ' Fome Worn.en.'s " Hearts.' 3 Horrible, Tsa^,dy in India. ) Inte| jpence has been received in Banga--3 lore of a most outr igeous murder which was perpetrated in the village of Chickanaikpallu, l in the taluk of Nelav<tngaluiii. A villager, - accompanied by his sister, was en route to r Hangalore. Being overtaken by n.igh.t, a,nd as the weather was threat Qiiing^ey accepted i the hospitality erf ft. gowda. (H\d Ins, eight j-bus, ; tho only residents pt the village o£ Chicka- • naikpal'lu, Here ih.e gufists appear to have ; been properly treated, and after partaking of I ft meal, all appeared to have retired to rest. ; It is then reported that at midnight the un- > fortunate woman heard a, conversation ber tween the go\vd:\ and his sons, in consequence . of which she stiipuod heiself el ;^e jewels ; she was decked with v a,u,dma,de them over to i her brother for safu custody. ' The latter then appears to nave left the house, and on his re- ; turn found his sisLer weltering in., a pool of , blood, she having been .ripped open w\th : some sharp in.-trument. Before^ cruel i murderers could etfae/^ ftny of, their ■ cold-blo J p ) de.d f pi"lni,e. the house \yas encircled i by a cordon of po.lice, and the ropnsters were arrested. 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