MAIL ITEMS.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3787, 16 February 1881, Page 3

MAIL ITEMS.

A shocking outrage has apparently been perpetrated on the Argentine Republic. A morning contemporary on Saturday printed the following telegram from Buenos Ayres :—'' November 24.—A new public land officer has been ppened by the National Government, and large purchases of land have been effected in tbis and other provinces." The state of affairs in, Buenos Ayres must clearly be very bad when the Government thus unceremoniously commits murder. The authorities might Bave tried some less painful process of obtaining information from one of their servants than that of opening him. Still the result seems to havte been both valuable and reliable, for we find —presumably in consequence of ..'. the knowledge gained by slicing up the popr fellow—that large purchases of land have been effected in the provinces. The Government will, however find some difficulty in getting another man 10 fill this land officer's place, and the old one will be useless by this time. The . followins; is the full inscription which haf-just, been placed by the Queen on the memorial executed by Mr J. E. Boehm, A.K..A-. in remembrance of her late Royal Highness, the Princess Alice, in.the Eoyal mausoleum, Frogmore. In gold letters on the central panel are the words, " To the memory of my much "■ -»tiriovc-ji nnd lamented daughter, Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, who survived Bnt a few days the fever stricken child Beside whom "she watched, not counting her life dear to herself;" and on the opposite side, facing tbe-window, are the word, "WHo died at Damstadt on the the 15th December, the same date on ■which in 1861, the Prince Consort died at Windsor. In their deaths they are not j divided." The monogram on the side with a crown is A. M. M. (Alice Maud M^ry), born 25th April* 1843; died 14th December, 1878. The paonogram on the back, facing the chapel above her infant daughtet *s a large MY (Mary), with the . Eoyal (V&wn of Hesse, and the words \ underneath, " ?orn 24th Mav > 1874 5 „ died lfsh Nayember, 1878." On the front>are*'thepanels with (the Royal arms ! of England, Wd on the opposite side are the arms of •'Messes. The memorial is k composed of Ipjack marble, dove white - ''statuary, Sienna and Sicilian marble. The recumbent group is of white statuary -.. .marble. . . A writer to the Spectator has called attention to the very cruel method employed in ; killing turkeys. It has probably occurred to few of the thousands who see this bird on their dinner tables every year to inquire in what way it could M be killed without removing the head, ! * -which always appears on th^dish. The * answer is shocking enoughs According to the Spectator's correspondent, instead of allowing the poor turkey the luxury of an instantaneous death by cutting off its head " comfortably and at once," it is the fashion." to make a slit in its tongue, then string it up, and leave it slowly to bleed away its wretched life, a process which, I believe, lasis many hours." The puhlic hate hitherto been parties to this cruelty through ignorance; and it is raflier odd that the officfers of • the society for the p«evention;ofs;t;he fil-treatment of animals, •^wboare rery-fond of speculative prose- " 'cutionsin'dpubtfuicaßes of cruelty, should s hare' omitted to call attention to this barbarous practice. Now that it is known, it ought to be broken down in a single season.' Every humane person.,will take care to give his poulterer instructions, to have his turkeys decapitated.