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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1129, 1 December 1879, Page 2 (Supplement)

AX & post-mortem, examination recently made in a lunatic aaylum in Saxony a needle was found stickirg in the b.-art. It bad passed / through the posterior wall of the left ventricle, > The patient, a man aged 25, bad died of peri- ; tonitia. He bad always felt well previous to f his last illness, and never complained of any . cardiac troubles. In _ what way the needle entered his heart remaii-s uakLO.vn. ' The bedy of a young lady was recently re- r moved from Brighton, E-gland, for burial under somewhat ronnntic circumstances. The "J day of her interment was the day which had * been originally fixed for her marriage, and her * friends c-implied with he>r dying wisu, that she t~ should be drawn to the grave by the hones >" which had been engaged to convey her to > church. To the catafalque there were accordirglv attached four greys, whose heads were J' decki d with floral rorettes of white and red geraniums, and the ct ffin as covered with a woite and amber silk pall. The carriages which 1 fallowed were piivate veh-'clef, instead of the * usual mourning cuacheß, an i were also drawn by pairs of grey horses caparisoned similarly < to those which drew the hearse. :i Daring the ensuing twelve months 769,000 men will serve with the colours in France, in accordance with the military regulations ,»» of this year. For financial reasons only 00* ~ elm of reswv# letjtk? wiled out, i