peculiar accident took place recently in huvkovsky street, St. Petersburg. A man, evidently an ex-soldier who bad been wounded in the late war, judging from his war-medals, his limp, and his general appearance, was crossing the street when a passing carriage knocked him down and ran over one of his legs, which broke with a sickening crack. All the spectators were horror-stricken, but the victim himself seemed to suffer more from anger than from pain for, lying on the ground, he shook his first at the driver crying "That'll cost you two and sixpence, you stupid brute A policeman and some charitable passers-by helped the furious veteran into another carriage and conveyed him carefully to the nearest hospital, where they discovered, to their astonishment, that the broken leg was an artificial one, the real limb having been left behind in Manchuria. The policeman afterwards accompanied the ex-soldier tothe police station, where a protocol was drawn up charging the " izvoschik with careless driving and putting down the. amount of damage done at 2/6,
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