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A FORTUGUESE GHOST STORY,
SCENES IN A COUNTRY HOUSE.
The newspapers of Lisbon, according to a. Cestral News message, derota considerable attention to what must surely be one of the remarkabla "ghost stories" of cast „TCHIN
The Incidents related are said to have occur. red at the country residence, Bear Coimbra, of an elderly Judge—a large, mmbling mastion chota by his present resident largely on account of its 'Isolation. The gentleman in quation recently married a young wife, and it: was just before the marriage that he rented the house which was destined to prove so trouble- some a property, and to which the couple xelited soon afterwards. The old. gentleman was a heavy sleeper; but his young bride was alarmed by strange noises almost immediately after they had arrived at the place-noises of koocking upon windows, of opening and shaning of doors, and of foolsteps along the corridor, which are audible only after all lights had been put out for the night. For a
go mad,
VA DECREASE IN CRIME.
"AS COMPARED WITH FIFTY YEARS AGO,
HONGLONG AVERAGE MARKA
PRIORS,
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A comprehensiva analysis of the state- crime la England and Wales in 1908 was issued Corrected aird June, 2010, 2so cis, pe Sher. Sappen
Parliamentary Blue-book
Although the raino shows that the number of persons, tried for indiciable offences in 1908 was 68,116, which is a higher number than in any previous year for which fijaren die available, and marks an increase of 6,735 ovar those for the preceding yest, or nearly 13 par cent, li le contended, of the other hand, that crime bas lacrossed very little to half a century,
... CRIMINAL'S GREATER OPPORTUNITIES,
Taking into account the greater opportunities open nowadays to an individual of criminal tendencies through the greater profesion, of wealth and individual possessions, on one side, and, on the other side, the reduction, by the decrease in the average length of sunlustes, in the periods for which he is forcibly restmined from crime, the report says it may reasonably
be inferred that the members of the predatory
classes are appreciably fewer than in 1857, in spite of the fact that in the interim the population has almost doubled
2,742
time, she said nothing to her husband, fearing that he would only laugh at her fancies but when an intimate friend of the family chatced to call, she confided to him her fears, and as- About fifteen sixtaesika of the crimei record- aured him that if the moltes contioned shed are offances agrícit property. Out of the Would
tojalol/68,116 indictable, offadcet, no fowor The friend thereupon agreed to keep watch than 59,603 warn offences against property one night outside the couple's bad-room, with without violence, the remainder being clasal out saying anything to the husband on the sub-flod as follows in "pers, ject. Immediately the lights were out, the Offences against person strange nolaes were heard, and the watcherfelt. Offences against propuny with violence... 4,076 assured that footsteps were approaching him in Malicious injuries to property.................... 503 the corridor... Suddenly the bed-room door Forgery and offences against the currency 38 was flung open by some invisible agency and Miscellaneous offences........................................ the husband awoke to the sound of his wife's. scraim. She had jumped terror-stricken from the bed and outside in the corridor the ku band found their friend billing out wildly at soms invisible object. All polnes' had, how- ever, ceased the moment a light was struck, and considerable explanation was required to convince the old man that nothing more serious |than a ghost story was the cause of the strange
scent.
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The following night husband and friend watched together, and as soon as the lights strange manifestations. Suddenly the husband wore extinguished they were aware of the same
felt a smart box of the ears, and hit out starply in reply. His friend struck a light, and nothing was to be seen or heard. As the match
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LANCASHIRE'S UNHAPPY LEAD, Lancashire is the county showing the greatest" increase in indictable offences, the amount of increase being 1,465, Durham coming second with an increase of 977, the West and East Riding of Yorkshire third and fourth with in- creases of 665 and 456 respectivaly.
Davon bas the distinction of showing the greatest decrease in crime, that county's `da- Crease ofladictable offances being 77., Somerset second with a decrease of 38, and Camaron third with 33.
105,379 INDIOTABLE OFFENCES. During the year 105,179 indictable offences came within the cognisance of the police bot for thasa offences only 67,971 persons were ar-
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ally short time, citem ten days only, removes all dise charges, effecinally suparjoding infections, the use of Wiki Boos irreparable harm by laying the foundation of sirićtexe and other serjusi Alacasca, Is dysentery, piles, Litation of the lower bord, cough, bronchista, with and some of the more teyjar complaints of this kind, lé wil be found astonishinglygilencious, affording prompt › relief where other well-tried remondins have been powerless.
parity rʻgons, Thoamallera,
THERAPION No.2
of blood, scurvy, pimples, spots, blotches, pains and sw
ling of joints, secondary s born too much a fashion “sad all diseases for which i
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THERAPION No3′′*
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• Brog rasikason in þot, unionlthy climates, "advent
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ERAPION
the person reported to the police, 3,500 persons were appicheaded or summoned. But in con- trast with this in offences against property with violence the number of apprehensions amount. ed to little more than one-third of the number of crime
It is under the heads of burglary, kouse breaking, and shopbreaking that the ratio of apprehensions to crime le lowest..
appareatly from a room opposite to the bed-summons, In respect of 3,821 crimes against soom, Thatwoman opened the door and rasked in, but hardly had they entered when the door slammed behind them, and they found it locked. A shrill-scream of terror was beard from the wife, now alone in her bed-rosas, and rasking at it with all their force the men burst opan the door and ran into the other room, to fiad be Womp in a swoon on the floor. The judge and his wife left the place the next day, unable to facetio uukooma and unsaan terror again, and the young wifats stated to be in a serious cene The police werdvuidem pro bin Mavis thien man were set to watch for a night in the haunted bed-room and along the corridors but shortly after the lights had been extinguished the man stationed in the corridor was heard wildly shouting, and the others on going to his assistance found him hammering madly at the
walls, quite insane. An extraordinary feature of the manifestations, if the newspapers may be relied upon, is that the servants, who have I slept in another wing of the house, had never
board the slightest noise or witnessed anything" abusual, until the night when they were arous ed by the sunggle in the bed-room. Mert
WIVES AND FAMILIES WANTED,
AS WELL AS WORKERS, IN AUSTRALIA, "Autralia not only wants werkers, but wants their wives and familias, too? said Sir George Reid, High Commissioner for the Common- wealth of Australis, in a statement, to remove any islio ímpressions which may hava arijen | in the public misd from advertisements which have lutely appeared in the Press from ́ Aus- tralins employers for "married women with- out escombrances,”
While passing.consare upin Australian paople who advortiso' in this 'way, Sir Geroge Reid points out that there are always cases la ovary country where married couples, without children are preferred as hourshold servasi,
sally in the remote interior of the country where temporary substitucas are not to be gilj
**|| and no single domestics are avaliablón
MARRIED COUPLES WANTED
That married couples are wanted is show, says Sir George, by the fact that the wives and childies of assisted, -nominated, and cosinet emigrants, and also approved domestic: vanis, are taken to Queensland fres of all steamship (aras,, while the other States'alzo make special concessions. ⠀
MR. DEAKIN'S MESSAGE.. #13 baro just received a cublogram from the Prime Minister of Australia (tau Hon. Allied Daaklu},♬ addı Sir George, in which ho natures me that the assistance offered 10 married Immigran's and their children in the case of Austalia is greater than that offered by any other country seeking popula tlom.
"There, it ́ ́avery" "chance" for industrious
| British, emigranta who engage in` farms-work
in Australia, Wagen are: bigb;, and 'land' is obtaliable at easy prices."
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Of the 68,,too persons charged with non- indictable offences during the year 299,910 were sobrahmad and auto proceeded against by Chicken-Ka! Obal
The total number of inquè
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year was 37,092, compared with 36,756 in shock allmäla Kalwise a preceding year. There were 3:751 case of Dores-Pin Kan .... suicide, an increase of 274. Of these 2,818 ware misles.
THE PRISON RETURNS,
The returns from the prisoas show that the. total number of convicted prisoners received fato prison during 1908 was 184, 708.
Persons sentenced to death numbered agi. while there ware 1,182 sentences of penal sar- viande, the remainder being sentences of im- prisonment, : About two-thirds of the prisoneri ware sentenced to hud labour. Out of 25 sentences of death to wire commuted to penal servitudelor life and two free pardons,
Two hundred and sixty-two parsoni wèca received into inebriate reformatories, of whom 218 were women,
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