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Te Aroha News, Volume VII, Issue 448, 22 February 1890, Page 4

Here is the latest malignant stab at the mother-in-law. Several young ladies were in a field watching a milkmaid milk a cow. Suddenly a wild bull was seen rushing towards the group with lowered head, tail uplifted, and bellowing furiously. The young ladies were in despair: There was no chance to escape. On the other hand the milkmaid kept on milking, perfectly unconcerned. As soon as the furious animal got within a few feet of his victims, he turned tail and fled in dismay. ‘ Why did be run away ?’ asked one of the young ladies. . - , r ‘He got scared at this cow I’m milking,’ was the reply, ‘she is his mother-in-law.’ ! A man-eating tigress in India, which has been the scourge of the neighbourhood of Chakrata for ten years, has been killed by a young officer. Her victims were innumerable, and ehe was once observed by some men up a tree to carry a man alive for her cubs to play with, the tigress, which sat by blinking and purring like a cat, bounding after and bringing hack the. poor fellow every time be made an effort to escape.