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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 178, 1 August 1867, Page 2

A new telegraph-station has beeu opened in White's Bay, at the spot where the submarine cable is laid to on the western side of Cook Strait. This, we are informed, will greatly facilitate the transmission of messages between Nelson and the South. In the walk of life where a carriage is not kept the disagreeable woman is indeed a scourge. If her husband is a gentleman and suffers her to follow her wicked bent, his days and his nights are a burden to him. She talks aside at him in the presence of company. At breakfast she seldom appears, for your disagreeable woman is addicted to lying in bed. If he is poor she is extravagant, aud yet always deploring the want of money. She is generally impeccable, after the rigid fashion of a proper British wife and a mother, and — if we may be pardoned for sayiug so — this makes her worse. On the strength of her fidelity she plies mountains of aggravation. She is so satisfied with the possession of one virtue that she can never see the necessir.y for practising another. As a rule she grows thin as she grows old. — London Review. In later years, if stage history he true, Catalani manifested, with all her personal vanity, a practice of piety which was not unlike that of Madame Gonthier. We are told that she never entered a theatre without earnest prayer that she might be successful, and that, behind the scenes or at the wing, at the Opera House iu the Hayinarket, she might be seen missal in hand, repeating a prayer, after making the sign of the cross and consigning the book to her attendant, she would pass on to tbe stage prepared for triumph. Madame Gatatani, however, had peculiar notions touching her relations with heaven. When _^she was at Hamburg, in 1819. she was treated severely by one of fche critics, and she took the eeo sure for something little less thau sacrilege. " When God," said madame, "has given to a mortal such extraordinary talent as I possess, people ought, to applaud and honor it has a miracle.. It is profane to depreciate the /gifts of Heaven!" — Cornhill Magazine.