DR. IRVINE'S LECTURE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue IV, 27 July 1869, Page 2

DR. IRVINE'S LECTURE.

To the Editor op the Kelson Evening Mail. Sir,—Allow me to supply through yonr paper an omission in my lecture on Friday. My tbanks are duo, not only to my zealous assistants, but to various friends, among whom I may mention Dr. Cotterell, and Messrs Johns, Fletcher, Simmons, Maekay, Tutton. Bonniogton, Groom, McArtney, G-raliam, Nalder, and Dacorube, for the loan of books and of apparatus, without which the uuiform success of the experiments could not have beeu secured. I am, &c, F. W. IRVINE. Nelson, July 56th.

A Wrong Guess. — A physician going down Regent Street with a friend of his, said to him, " Let us avoid that prettylittle woman you see there en the left ! She knows me, and casts on me looks of indigwation. I attended her husband." "Ah! I understand; you had the misfortune to dispaich him." *|On the contrary," replied the doctor, "I saved him." A G-entleman preseuted a lace collar to the object of his adoration, and, in a jocular way, said. "Do uot let any one else rumple it." " No, dear," saidthe lady, "I will take it off." " Oh dear, Mr. F., you jest when you say my babe is the handsomest you ever saw; you must be soft-soaping." " Well, madam, I think it needed soap of some kind." A Wit beiDg told that an old acquaintance was married, exclaimed, " I am glad to hear it." But reflecting a moment, he added in a tone of compassion and forgiveness : " And yet I don't know why I should be, he never done me any harm."