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Waikato Argus, Volume VI, Issue 411, 18 March 1899, Page 1 (Supplement)

A woman inmate of the penitentiary at Des Moines, la., U.S.A., has left the record for a novel suicide. She is credited with having swallowed spiders enough to kill her. She died after hours of intense suffering. When the late Prince Bismarck was in London, in 1843, he was invited to visit a famous brewery, and his hosts, haviug heard of his reputation a 3 a beer-drinker of great prowess, presented to him an enormous tankard of old ale, jn the confident expectation that he would be obliged to admit himself vanquished by it " I seized the tankard," Bismarck tc Id Sir Charles Dilke, who relates the story "and I thought of my country and drank to Prussia, and tilted it till it was empty. Then [thanked my entertainers —courteously, I hope—and succeeded in making my way safely as far as London Bridge. Then I sat down in one of the st«io recesses, and for hours the great bridge went rouud and round me.' A nurse has come into a nice fortune. The personal estate has been valued at £143 332 of Mr Walter Stewart Broadwood, of 3, Queen's (Jute Gardens, and of Forney, Malvern Wells, and formerly of the linn of John Broadwood and Sous, pianoforte manufacturers, "who died on October 20th last, aged 79 years, and whose will is dated November 20th, IS ( JG, with six codicils, the last made on March. 17th last. Mr Broadwood bequeathed to AmePa Wall Edwards, of Bray Side, Malvern, who had nursed him through two serious illnessess. £IO,OOO and £12,000, and £4444, aud his house Ferney and the contents thereof, and his horses and carriages and live and dead stock at Wood Farm and "Warren Farm, and all his private papers and correspondence, " without any liability on her part to produce them to anyone." The testator also devised to Amelia Edwards his freehold land at Malveru and Hanley Castle, and he desired that she should have immedia'e possession of all the property which he left her, without the necessity of waiting for administration of the estate.