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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 275, 20 November 1868, Page 2

The schooner G-lengary arrived yester•day from Kaipara, having left that port on Saturday last. She brings a cargo of kauri timber, consigned to Mr Miibin.

Dr Elizabeth Blackwell says that 'if the present generation of English women •understood the laws of health as well as they understand the toilette, and expended the same- interest in putting them into practice that they devote to dress, they might save one-half of the children who will die in the next generation, dimiuish by half its sickness, and increase by a third the average duration of its life.'

When Mr Justice O'Doherty presided as an assize judge on the Munster circuit he hired a ear to take him to a friend's house to dinuer. He had not gone far when the horse became restive, and upset the car in the ditch. On being released the judge asked the driver how long the horse bad been in harness. — ' Halt-an-hour, sir.'' — 'I mean how long since he was first put in harness?' — ' Half-an-hour, sir.; and master taid, it he carried you safe, he'd buy him !'

It is said that duriug the past 18 months 15 murders have been committed in Newborn, North Carolina, and its immediate viciuity, and that not a single one has been hanged.

The John o'Groat Journal says that a certain clergyman in the North told his congregation -the other day that it was by eating the forbidden fruit that toothache was first caused. Why should teetotallers never hold ■their meeting at a theatre? — Because there should not be a drop seem at them. Some one asking Mr Curran why a of his walked about London with his tongue out of his mouth, he said that he ' supposed he did so in hopes to -catch the English accent.' * Would you not, sir, start, as Mr Oarrick does, if /you. saw a ghost?' said -Jemmy Boswell to Samuel Johnson. 'I hope not,- replied -Johnston j, if I did I] should frighten the, ghost.*