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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 17, 21 January 1869, Page 2

— -n ; A Bathurst (N.S.W.) paper says: — We hear that there is a peculiar and somewhat general featare preseuted by the •wool-clip this season, and that is, the absence of that preponderating quantity of .grease which has characterised previous seasons. While usually fully 50 per cent. may be deducted from the weight of a fleece for the grease it contains, this year it does not average more than 25 per cent. The cause is supposed to exist iu the greater dryness of the late season, and in the scarcity of nourishing food which encourages and promotes the secretion of yolk. " "" " "• It seems, says a Castlemaine paper, that geese can live a long time without other sustenance than water. At Yapeeu, a goose was found alive in an old shaft with several feet of water in it, after it had been missed 14 days. It was nothiug but bones aud feathers, but after two or three days, it recovered from its long fast. A girl presenting herself at a house where ' no Irish need apply,' in answer to the question were she came from said, * Sure, couldn't you persave by me accint that its French I am?' 4 You say that you know a horse from a jackass when you see them?' asked a counsel of a rather dulUiooking witness. 'Oh, ye-as, just so,' drawled out the intended victim, gazing intently at his legal tormentor, ' I know tbe difference, and I'd never take you for an horse.' Au old Aberdeen laird's wife, when other ladies were enriching the teatable with broad descriptions of tbe vices of *their several spouses, said her own ' was just a guid, weel-tempered, coutby, quiet, innocent, daidlin', drunken body, wi* nae •ill practices about him ava? - The Latest Curiosities. — A feuce made from the railing of a scolding wife. — A plate of butter from the cream of a joke. — The small coins in 'the change of the moon.' — The original brush used in painting the signs of the times. — Agarment for the naked eye.— rThe hammer which broke up the meeting — Buckle to fasten a laugh-ing-stock. — The animal that drew the iuference^Egg from a nest of thieves. — A bucket of water from ■*** All's well.' An Irishman thus describes his cold reception by an old friend : — ' I saw Pat. Ryan t'other -side of the way. I thought it was Pat aud Pat thought it was ■me, and when I came up it was neither of