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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 40, 18 February 1869, Page 3

* A Father of Ten' who does not appear to be an ardent admirer of chignons, 'writing to a newspaper onthe subject, •makes the following remarksr — Whatever would girls say, if God had made them with lumps growing out <of the backs of ■their heads? They would go into an •hospital, and take chloroform and have them off, rather than be disfigured for life. There is nothing better than poultices night and morning to reduce the inflammation and get tbe swelling down. One of tay girls lias persevered in this simple treatment and her head is now its natural size. The Army and Navy Gazette thinks" it is very probable that a general war medal is about to be issued, which, with a distinctive clasp, will be given to those engaged in the Abyssinian, New Zealand, ■or the Indian frontier wars. It will likewise be available aB regards future operations of a similar kind." There is no other spoken language so cheap and expressive hy telegraph as the English. So the eleclric wires are Toecoming teachers of -our mother tongue in foreign •countries. Tbe same amount of information can be transmitted in fewer English wotds than in French, German, Italian, or in any other European language. , In Germany and Holland especially* it is "coming to be a common thing to send telegrams in English to save expense and . 'ensure precision. Thus the red, white and blue, the Celtic, Teutonic, and Lntin elements of our English language will . J^et make the tour of the globe, and be the silent speech fitted to the flashing lips of lightning, as well as the tongue which half of the earth's millions will speak witfrin two centuries from the present time. — Elihu Jfeuritt's Fireside Words for September.