A truly horrible crime has been perpetrated at Szill, Hungary. A small winegrower found his stock diminishing, and hid himself in the cellar to discover the thieves. He saw six tramps enter the premises, and, after copious libations, they prepared to take a cask away with them. At this juncture he came out of hia hiding place and attempted to remonstrate with them. They seized him, however, put him under the wine press, and crushed him to death. A man who happened to look in to see what was going on was forced by the six wretches to drink the victim's blood, which was presented to him as wine. Eventually he managed to slip out, and, bolting the cellar door, ran off for assistance to tho neighbouring village. The authors of this heinous crime were capture in a state of helpless

intoxication,

Byron's lady love in " Love's Labour Lost'» can (remarks the Pall Mall Gazette) no longer claim to be the only mortal " born to make black fair," for a Germau medical man has just done the same thing in the literal sense of the word. It appears that a short time ago a negro underwent a surgical operntion at Leipsic, after which it became necessary to put several small portions of skin over the wound. The skin was taken from two white persons, and aa the wound began to heal the fair colour of these pieces of skin began to change, and when the cure was completed had assumed the ebony colour of the negro's body. In order to find out whether black skin could in the same manner be changed into fair, a small portion of the skin of a negro was sewn over a wound in a white man's arm, Presently the dark patch began to grow palej and at^the end of 14 weeks it had become so light that it could no longer be distinguished! from the natural skin.
