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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 38, 15 February 1868, Page 3

_MJ_MB__^_M_M»B_BW___ WWWM M WMWB B >B , M | MMWWWm __^BB Many years ago I heard it said that cutting Canada thisties in the full of the moon in June, and again in the full of tbe moon in August, the same season, would kill them. The idea carried wa3 that the particular phase of the moon killed them. I cut them as aforesaid, and it killed them. I was not inclined to yield to whims or superstitions, and searched for the cause. I found that at certain times of the year, or at least that there were times of the j year, when the thistle was hollow, and the cutting of them at any time, while hollow, would kill them, simply because the rain would fill them with water and cause their decay. — Correspondent Scientific American. The Tennessee papers tell a story of the exploits of a negro who a short time since found a bag of gold in a hollow log. He converted his gold into five-twenties and bad over 4000 dols. He went to New Orleans, worked in a barber's shop, studied evenings, acquired a good knowledge of English and French, and in March last went to Europe as the attendant of an ex- Confederate general, and now turns up as proprietor of a first-class American restaurant in the Paris Exposition. An old gentleman recently attempted to remove a large insect from the bonnet of a j lady who sat in front of him at the theatre, i The result was he uprooted all her back hair. Deeply chagrined, he hastily apologised, but soon learnt that the insect was | artificial, and was used to hold the head and hair together. A scene was the con- j sequence. When General Lafayette was in the : United States, two young men were intro- j duced to him. He said to one, * Are you married?' 'Yas, sir' was the reply. 'Happy man,' quoth the general. He then put the same question to the other, who replied, ' I am a bachelor.' ' Lucky dog,' said the general.- This is the best essay on matrimony extant. Fontenelle was asked by a courtier at Versailles what difference there was between a clock and a woman? He instantly replied, ' A clock serves to point out the hours, and a woman to make us forget them.