The beautiful contrabandista lately arrested with five confederates near Deming, New Mexico.
How Marie Played a Romantic Trick on Her Lover and Brought Him to Time
A Vegetarian's Fancy.
How a Reading, PA., merchant, broke open his wife’s charmer and discovered a supposed lover to be a harmless female cousin.
Perilous Situation of a Skating Party on the Ohio River Near Zanesville, Ohio.
Patients serenading the village doctor.
So this is your birthday again. Well, bless my soul! Columbia, you will be as tall as your father soon.
"Who wants to pway me a couple of wattling stwong games?"
Boston detectives arrest two stylishly-dressed women while in the act of the shoplifting game.
Jolly sport among the giddy Vassar girls, fun in the forecastle, and a lonely New Year’s Eve on the desolate prarie.
Fifteen charming chippies make Rome howl while voyaging to New Orleans, Louisiana.
New York City, -- The Steamboat Riverdale blown up, August 28th – Rescuing the passengers.
A wooden Dutchman, rather than no man at all, was what a sensible spinster argued when some practical jokers under took to scare her in Oakland, Cal.
William Leland, of Buffalo, N. Y., takes a pleasurable dive over the Horseshoe Falls and still lives to be written up.
Miss Sallie Utterback, of Shoals, Near Vincennes, Indiana, knocks out a man with a waggin’ tongue.
The only absolutely pure and full weight desiccated cocoanut manufactured in this country.
Satan's sure-ruin traps - half-dime novels, five and ten cent story papers, and low-priced pamphlets for boys and girls.
Some of Uncle Sam’s land and water police have a genial shindy among themselves at the Navy Yard, Brooklyn, N. Y.
A desperate week-long challenge battle between Georgia and Arkansas cocks won by F. E. Grist's champion, Richard K Fox.
Westchester County is all agog over the case of the Rev. Mr. White, accused of violently assaulting the sister-in-law of a brother clergyman. We illustrate the scene.
A gang of female rogues, of the East Side, New York, work a little racket of their own.
The Story-teller in the Wheel-house of the "Belle Memphis"
How a too presumptuous shoe dealer’s attention to a female customer was resented by her male escort.
Yachting.
While New York is by no means the hottest city in the country, there have been a few days during the present season when the temperature reached a height altogether incompatible with human comfort.
Bayonets and Knives—A Sister’s Influence and Prevention of Murder.
Downed by Kindness After defying a host of armed keepers, James Driscoll, in the Trenton, N. J. State prison succumbs to a gentle word.
Alleged cancan dance indulged in by young male and female swells at Jamestown, New York.
A Fire in the Chicago Opera House creates a stampede among pretty actresses who rush to the street dishabille.
North Carolina - An Illicit Whiskey Still in the Mountains Surprised by Revenue Officers.

Lendall Pratt, and aged Long Islander, kills himself while in a political frenzy.
Col. Lendall Pratt, of Hyde Park, Queens county, worked hard to secure the election of Mr. Blaine throughout the last campaign. Although seventy-three years old, he did not spare himself, and day and night his sturdy figure could be seen all over the county. As election day drew near, he became somewhat erratic and his friends came to the conclusion that his reason had become impaired. The conflicting stories the following day about which candidate was elected seemed to unsettle his mind altogether, and he became violent. He threatened to kill his wife to hoe he had hitherto displayed the greatest affection, and it was considered dangerous for her to allow herself to remain alone with him. On Thursday, Nov. 6, he grew worse, and on Friday his violent manner hot having subsided, it was decided to put him in the county insane asylum at Mineola, from which his house is not a half a mile.
At 1 o’clock on the morning of Nov. 7 he quietly arose and dressed himself. His movements were so stealthy that they did not arouse the other lunatics. H went to the window, raised it, and seizing hold of the iron bars, began to tug at them. This noise aroused the other lunatics, and they sat up and looked at him. One of them, a lad of eighteen, jumped out of bed, and, shouting for an attendant, ran toward the door. Col Pratt caught hold of him and threw him back, then he glared the other lunatics, and threatened to kill them if they made any outcry. Thoroughly cowed, the crouched down in their cots, and watched him with frightened eyes.
The madman went back to the window, and seizing the bars again, he tore them out of their sockets. He took several blankets and threw them out of the window upon the slanting roof of the plaza, ten feet below. At this moment, an attendant who had heard the cry for assistance appeared at the door. Col Pratt turned and looked at him. The next instant he plunged head first through the window carrying with him the sash. He struck on the slanting roof, and rebounding, landed heavily on the ground, a distance in all of twenty feet. When Mr. Cement reached him he was dead. The fall had broken his neck.
Reprinted from National Police Gazette, November 29, 1884.


