MAIL NEWS.

Gisborne Times, Volume IX, Issue 711, 6 January 1903, Page 3

MAIL NEWS.

PARIS, November IS. A Spaniard, known as Baron Jc la Torre, who has been wanted for ten months for murdering an adventurer named Henri de Lavergne, has been arrested in Paris while looking in a shop window by a police commissioner who happened to recognise him. Torro iiad befriended Lavergne, attending him during an illness, but Lavergne was ungrateful enough to make love to the Baron’s sweetheart. The two men fought a duel, which came to a sudden and sensational termination. Finding that lie was getting the worst of the encounter, Lavergne seized his adversary's sword, and with his own sword ran him through the body. The Baron got well and tracked his enemy to Marseilles, where he forced him to fight a duel with Spanish knives, and stabbed him to the heart. , Torre then disappeared, and nothing more was iieard of him until he was arrested here. PARIS, November lb.

Tilly Bebe, a remarkable young woman* is appearing at the circus Medrano as a lion-tamer. Other performers of that class keep the wild beasts in check by making them afraid, but she conquers them by kindness. " , Entering the cage with a smile on her face, Tilly lies down among the fierce animals, who circle around her like affectionate dogs, licking and playing with her. Then shc'rises, takes a cord* and plays at skipping the rope, taking no notice of the beasts, .who pay no attention to her.. Whether it be mounting on stools,carrying her around the cage on their backs, or dancing a polka with her, the animals perform every feat with out the slightest show of resistance. Tilly only, has to tap them playfully on the muzzle, and the savage brutes obey her every wish. Tilly is an Austrian. Before going in for lion-taming, she was a ryp.eW She maintains that the only thing that renders a lion dangerous is fear of thenr,

BOONE, la., Nova .1.. James Weir, of South Omaha, is „ lie father of 22 children, eleven pairs of twins. At each birth, there came a boy and a girl. The mother was partial to girls and the father to boys, so nature gratified both. The two eldest daughters married twin sous, and within twelve fhours of each other gave birth to trains, a boy and a girl., The children and grandchildren of Mr and Mrs Weir are all healthy, about the average size, and goodlooking. Mr Weir is is well educated, prosperous, and content,

MARIE OF ORLEANS.,

, FIXED FRAN CO-SIAMESE ' .TREATY), PARIS, November h Tlie Franco-Siamese treaty, was the handiwork of a remarkable woman, Princess Marie of Orleans, tho wife of Prince Waldemar of Denmark, In league with Russia, she conspired with Admiral du PJessis Rrohe.icu (tho Commander of the Siamese 'navy, whose Siamese title and name is Phrayah Tcvonlayudh), to acquire and exploit vast areas of territory m the provinces of Chantabon and Law the Princess, Richelieu approached M. Delcasse, the French Minister, and the Czar, who is an intimate frierd as well as nephew o£ Prince Waldemar, could hardly refuse to lend his inQuence,.in favor of lus d The n Pnncess made several journeys expressly to Quai d’Orsay (the French Foreign Ministry,), and_had secret interviews witli the French »*«.»<»* to make the sacrifice demanded but at last the insistence of thes all pow erlul intermediary conquered, and France signed the treaty whic.i has caused so much dissatisfaction here,,

POLLAK-VIRAG TELEGRAPH SPEEDERS,

WORKING WELL'.; BUDA-PESTH, Nov. 1, The perfected quick-telegraphy machines invented by P O l iak rrnd V in vp been, nut into practical use he tween Buda-Pesth and Pressburg y, the Hungarian Government, and are giving the fullest satisfaction. The machines turn out long slips of thick paper, with firm, clear writing, the rate of 50,000 words ait hour in I Kinds of weather.