ALL KINDS OF THINGS.
A Strange Scene in a French Law-Court—A German Botanist's Hunt for a Mysterious Native Tribe—The Pranks of a Famous Joker—The Mileage of the Blood—Tiny Republics of Europe—Average Weights of Men and Women at Various Ages—With Other Curious and Interesting Things Drawn from Many Sources.
Compiled and edited for The Scrap Book.
HOW MELODRAMA WAS ECLIPSED BY TRUTH.
COINCIDENCES IN PARIS COURT.
Official's Attempt to Convict His Unrecognized
Son Was Interrupted by Wife
He Deserted Many Years Before.
Coincidence—chance, play a tremendous part in human history. Fate is another name for the same thing; so is luck. All these words are merely our puny euphemisms for X, the unknown quantity.
Not a day passes but the story of a remarkable coincidence is brought to public notice. A stranger incident never occurred, however, than this one, the account of which we have unearthed in an old copy of the Chronique de Paris.