A man's head blown to atoms by the explosion of a beer barrel on Long Island.
An unsuspecting woman in Platte Lake, Mich., is horribly and fatally made game of.
Mattie Salter killed by her brother, who didn’t know it was loaded, Sandersville, Ga.
Mrs. Dunsford, of Reading, Pa., meets with a mishap in a theatre.
The Bravery of charming Miss Jaffray, the daughter of a New York millionaire, saves many lives at Irvington, N. Y.

Society’s male darlings “making up” their faces for the purpose of “looking pretty” to their addlepated female counterparts; Saratoga, N. Y. [more]
Fashionable: And new we are told some of the fashionable young men at Saratoga and other watering places not only powder their faces, but that they actually paint. That they wear corsets has long been admitted. How far this aping of femininity is to extend it is hard to say; but we hope the young men will stop it before they actually become mothers.
Reprinted from National Police Gazette, September 25, 1880.


