A Sister's Vengeance

Sonie twenty years ago the faniily of a Mr. Kent, a Government inspector of English faetones, awoke one morning to find tliat a beautiful little boy, Mr. Kent's non by a second wife, was missing, and a seareli presently revealed the dreadful fact that he had been murdered. For many months the murder remained a mystery. The pólice, however, at once suspeeted Mr. Kent's daughter by bis first marriage, Constnce, and in the end slie confessed to the crime. A cuse very similar ocenpied last month in a French law court. Marie, aged 20, and Julie, aged 11, were daughters of tlie Widow Calvet. Julie revealed that Marie, who was regarded as a very nnnmiablc oharaotei, had committed a petty theft, and Marie vowed vengeance. One Sunday, finding herself alone in the ineadow with lier little sister, Marie threw her down, and, raising lier hand, said, " A little more and my knife shall enter your neok. " But a fortuiftht later there was quite i ohaage. Marie waa all earesnn and tendernesK, and on a eertain evening tliis fondness became intense, i Thai same night little Juiiedisappeared, only to be found, dead ajid horribly mutiluted, in a mili stream. Furtlier search ' lel t the discovery of a bloody apron of ' Marie's. Taxed with the crime, she bonfessed it, but had the meanness to attempt to incúlpate a young mnn, who, she averred, liad instigated tlie act, and nssisted in it, from rage at the watoh which the little girl kopt over theii niovements. He was, however, hickily able to prove, a perfectly satisfnetorv ! alibi. One would have supposed tlwt if : women ever merited the guillotine Marie did, bot Prendí jurie )iiv a niarvelous ingennity in discovering mitigating ciroumstanoes, and Üie one in this case found that tlie crime, notwithstonding i tlie threats recorded, was not premeditated. So Marie only gets twenty years' hard labor. BijONDra's stay in Santiago, Chili, bas 1 been mi uninterrupted sueeess. ïlie papera TÍe with each othei' in relating instances of bis prowess, and one assures us tbat in St. Petersburg on oe occasion he went through bis perfonniince on a rope covered with ice. It may not be out of plaoe to mention a utill more reniarkable exploit of Blondiu'B at Vienna. Xot only was the ropc covered with ice, but the performer traversed it on two stilt twelve feet long, the éxub of whicli had been shorpened and thrust inte sodawater botttes; and not only tliis, lnt he j nctually danceS the " Ijiverjjool ! pipe " thuH nccontred, oarryinchis ! retary on hia shoulders, and letting oft' fireworks at the saine time ! A cloak of pnrtridge feathens is being made by an industiious yonng lady in ! England. Ten tlumsnnd feathers of different sizes will be reqnired, tRe tail feathers beintf used tor the lower part, i the breawt plunifige eomhig above, oml the variegatod neok feathen being intended to encircle the throat. A. pAMAKTSOOTTA (Me.) boy Btied lii : father for assaiilt mul battery, beoause the parent whipped hiin for playing hookey. The boy won his suit ; at least he got damages. But they were made with a kate-Ntrnp.