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General News.

A writer in the Economist mentions the following extraordinary case of bankruptcy :—" The bankrupt was a jeweller and silversmith. The property realised £1250 11s 4d; the book debts being £18 15s 6d; stock and furniture, £1231 15s lOd. There was paid to preferential and secured creditors, £289 3s 6d ; leaving the net assets, £9617s lOd. The expenses of realisation were—law charges, £487 6s 8d; trustees' remuneration, £228 10s 8d ; receiver's charges, £22 1 Is 8d ; taxed charges (auctioneers, <fee), £177 12s 3d; and incidental outlay, £39 15s sd; total, £945 16s Bd. There was paid to the creditors, £9 17s. 2d, which produced a dividend of 3d in the £, thus showing that the total amount of secured, preferential, and unsecured debts was only £1077 16s 9di:pr £172 14s 6d less than the amouut of realised assets." :■-''

Bayard Daily, of Logansporfc, Ind., shot his betrothed wife, Anne Beckly, last month, because she refused 13 give him a dirk with which to kill a rival. She was given iip to die, but surprised everybody by slowly recovering; and a few day sago, as soon as she could stand on her feet, she married the man who had so nearly murdered her.

Two brothers stole money steadily for ten years from a Detroit bank in which they were tellers, and covered up the crime when the annual examinations of their books were made by borrowing the money temporarily. At length the sum reached 30,000 dols., and they were unable to raise it. :

Mr John Bell, owner of a private gallery, which had cost £200,000, tried to will his pictures to the city of Glasgow, but he unfortunately wrote his will in pencil. Under the British law, he might as well have written it in water. His pictures have been sold for the benefit of his heirs, and his good intentions follow him.

The Lair Times points out that Parliamentary "obstruction " was not entirely unknown in the last century. On the 12 ih March, 1771, the minority divided the House twenty-three times unresisting', the punishment of the printers of the debates. Burke said of these proceedings, "Posterity will bless the pertinacity of that day. ': A-Celestial named Ah Fat was charged before one of the Victorian Courts recently with maliciously wounding Ah Tung, a fellow countryman. It>ppeared that a letter had arrived, addressed to Ah Fat, of which complainant took'possession, and, having opened, read the contents. On the defendant's return, he in consequence, became " exceeding wroth," it being the law in China, as alleged, that if one man opens another man's letters, the wronged one is allowed

to stab the offender to the heart. Ah Fat proceeded to enforce the penalty on Ah Tung, bat.only succeeded in inflicting a nasty wound on 'Complainant's forehead: At a'recent bird show id Berlin, Germany, green canaries were exhibited. Others were red, light brown, and gray. The variations of color had been caused by the daily use of. cayenne pepper in their food. The pepper was at first given in small quantities, and the birds appeared to like it, but the feathers soon fell, giving " them a moulting appearance. la a short time new feathers of divers colors sprouted. The variations were ascribed I to the different qualities of the pepper and to the quantities given. .

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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3846, 27 April 1881, Page 2

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General News. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3846, 27 April 1881, Page 2

General News. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3846, 27 April 1881, Page 2

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