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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 127, 3 June 1867, Page 2

"It^will oot do," says Sydney Smith, "to be calculating risks, and adjusting nice chances. It did all very well before the flood, when a man could consult his friends upon an intended publication for a hundred and fifty years; but at present a man waits and doubts, and hesitates, and consults his brother, aud his uncle, and his cousins and hid. particular friends* till one day he iiuds that he is sixty-five years old — that he has lost so much time in consulting- his first cousins and his particular friends, that he has no time left, to follow their advice." "Sambo, am you posted in the natural prfences?"— "Sartingly — ob course I is." * Den you tell me de cause of de rot in potatoes for de las many years gone by?" "Oh dats easy enough for the merest child in scientific larnin.* l)e great rot in. potatoes iV all" owin' to de rut-tater-y .motion obdeearthi, ■:■<■ ■■:•.-■■■• -„:•-■■•- ' . -