Upon two men being arrested in France one of them attempted to swallow a baggage ticket. This re ferred to articlea deposited at baggage offices in London. Examinations of these trunks led to the dlicloiure of a system of mail-bag robberies on boati between this country and the Con" tinent. It is denied that the Russian Grand Duchess committed suicide beoause the Czar had banished her son for marry* ing against the Czar's wishes. S^e died at a railway Btation, it is true, but it is said ta have been due to exs citement. The son, whose marriage with a German lady was the cause of the trouble, on hearing of his mother's death broke an artery through violent emotion, and his life for a time was in danger. • Mrs Major, of Sutton Veny, Wilt*, has just celebrated her 100 th birthday. She formerly kept the Bell Inn, bat during the whole of that time dranc nothing but cider. Mrs Brett, the Tottenham oontena rian, has just died, aged 102. Twenty-five people in one house ie Glasgow suffered from poisoning thought to have been caused through taking milk from a cow who was re cently seized with fever. The Caland, a Dutch steamer, raa down the Glamorgan, a Cardiff steamer, while making her first voyage down the Channel. The two vessels became so firmly locked together that until the Glamorgan filled and sank they could not part. Thirty people on board were rescued, women and children having to be taken from their beds. The magistrate's order for the del* truefcion of the Rabelais pictures baa been sat aside on appeal to the Scs i ons. They are to be sent baok to France, the exhibitors paying a fine of L 25 each. Two little boys named Stafford, aged 13 and 9, sons of an ex-Mayor of Leicester, were playing in their bed room with an old rerolver. Reports of firearms were heard, and on the parents going to the room both were found ohot dead. The affair ia ibrouded m mystery, but it is supposed that one having accidentally shot his brother became frightened and shot himself. An alarming outbreak of hydro phobia has occurred near New Ross, Ireland. It was first noticed m some ebeep dogs, which attacked animals ia all directions, these in turn bvting whatever they came in contact with. 