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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 279, 27 November 1869, Page 3

A Gallic Scapegbace.— Our fashion- ] able contemporary the Court Journal notes a rich bit of scandal on the tapis in' the Faubourg St. Germain. Count has 1 the misfortune to be blessed with & prodigal son, who has been going on so fast that his father cut off all supplies. Iv a fit of revenge; young hopeful invested his last louis in a corduroy jacket aud blue trousers, and set up has a commissionaire in front of the Count's mansion. In order to attract customers he had the family arms engraven on his crochet. This little comedy has beeu going on for some time, and neither father nor son appears inclined to give in. To bring matters to a crisis, the son has just aunouced his intention of marrying a young fruitseller in the neighbourhood. The Court Journal states that George Francis Train, of tramroad and Fenian notoriety, "has offered to take a contract to sack London in sixty days, with Feuian soldiers aud sailors, free of all cost but that of transportation." Very likely ! "

The following eccentric will (according to the Toronto Globe) was made by Dr. Dunlop, afc one time a member of the Legislature for Upper Canada : — " In the name of God. Amen. I, William Dunlop, of Gairbread, in the township of Colborne, county of Huron, Western Canada: being in sound healih of body and mind, which my friends who do not flatter me say is no great shakes at the best of times, do make my last will and testament as follows, revoking, of course, all former wills. I leave the property of Gairbread and all other property I may be possessed of to my sisters, Helen Boyle Story, and Elizabeth Boyle Dunlop, the former because she is married to a minister who (may God help him) she benpecks : the latter because she is married to nobody, nor is she likely to be, for she is an old maid and not market rife. And also I leave to them and their heirs my share of the stock and implements on the farm, providing always that the inclosure round my brother's grave be reserved ; and if either of them should die without issue the other is to inherit the whole. I leave to my sister-in-law, Louisa Dunlop, all my share of the household furniture and such traps, with the exceptions hereafter mentioned. I leave my silver tankerd to the oldest son of old John, as the representative of the family. I would have left it to old John himself, but he would have melted it down to make temperance medals, and that would have been a sacrilege. However, I leave him my big horn snuffbox — he can only make temperance horn spoons out of that. I leave my sister Jenny my Bible, the property formerly of my great-great-graud-mother, Betsy Hamilton, of Woodhall ; and when she knows as much of the spirit as she does of the letter she will be a much better Christian than she is. I leave my late brother's watch to my brother Sand}', exhorting him at the same time to give up Whiggery and Radicalism and all other sins that do most easily beset him. I leave my brother-in-law, Allar., my punchbowl, as he is a big gaucy man, and likely to do credit to it. I leave to Parson Chevassie my big silver suuffbox I got from the Simcoe Militia as a small token of my gratitude to him for taking my sister Maggie, whom no man of taste would have taken. I leave to John Caddell a silver teapot, to the end that he may drink tea therefrom to comfort him under the affliction of a slatternly wife. I leave my books to my brother Andrew, be~cauße he has been jingling wally, that he may yet learn to read with them. I leave my silver cup, with the sovereign in the bottom of it, to my sister Janet Graham Dunlop, because she is an old maid and pious, and therefore necessarily given to horning ; and also my grandmother's snuffbox,, as it looks decent to see an old maid taking snuff." ,

Chinese Women in Otago.— Among the passengers by the steamer Gothenburg, on her last trip from Melbourne to Dunedin, were three young Chinese women — the first of their sex, according to the Tuapeka Press that have come to Otago from the flowery Island. They were disguised in male attire, but a close observer could detect, in their voices and general demeanour, as well as in their petite appearance, unmistakable evidences of their real sex. They arrived in Lawrence by the coach on Tuesday last, leaving their fellow-passengers of the sterner sex to come on by waggon from Dunedin. On the way up it became necessary, at a bad portion of the road, for the occupants of the coach to alight and proceed for some distance on foot j but the fair Celestials, when left to their own resources, could only manage to locomote slowly and with great difficulty, owing to the fact that in common with all Chinese females, they possess feet more remarkable for deformity, than for utility. We understand that all three of the ladies are married, and have come hither to join their husbands. •