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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 302, 27 December 1869, Page 2

"Headstrong ßoy." — New Hampshire boasts of a boy but 11 years old, who is ''extremely vicious and -headstrong;" so much so,- indeed, that on September 4 he entered a room where old Mrs." Sparhawk, his grahdmotHerJwa's sitting 'with a-' Mrs/ Starkweather/, and i.shot the,'. former lady. , deiid. w.ith..a-smaU.Tev.olver..so-quicklylthat Mrs. - Starkweather- could not,; tell, who fir'e,d the shot/ -At .first .he ,denied ( havmg any -knowledge of the iafTair; but ; the; inquest/with "*' true childish" candour," he confessed' -he ; : *was ! 'the? murderer/ additig apologetically ;'tha't he'wanted to.get "the qld.ci'it'tur butof the way."! It. seems thatv; Master- Spar hawk had- planned -the murder foihv a v anpnthph and /that matters .• were brbughfcXttija'r cnslstbyl 'a few^wbES^Ke.^iiaE IwjtX hisiage^ielafciVe .cbncernipgihe duty !, '.jotobedi^pce^Z^-Z'fZyi'. vZZZ"ZZ^: : >Z K Z

I „«THE : LAj:E^NajERNATIONALvBOAT RACE. — The.jHarTard crew have" addressed-; a letter to the London Rowing Club, thanking thprn for their' uniform"' kindness and attention during the' stay of the boating men in 'England, and adding': — " We have left in'yoin' '.hands thef boat in, which we rowed" the ./race. ; ,. Will,, you, oblige us.hy acrepting it as a sl'mht token of the reirnrd we „feel ifqr the -many worthy men r who compose your club, and whom it has been our pleasure and honor tomeet andknovv? -We. scarcely iPfall any specimen of our American manufactures that would be more ap'-prppria'te, ' and .'hope that it* may be of .service, to you." „ , _ '„ . :- Where is the history that does not show us that, a State without a religion falls .to the ground?. When Elizabeth sat on the throne England -acknowledged religion; she rose paramount. When the Stuarts trifled both forms of faith, England fell.-. When Cromwell acknowledged God in every act,- up again England rose. When Charles the. Second scorned all faith, and gave himself up to pleasure, she. fell ( again to be!, the pensioner of France. When William the Third took up his title of Defender of Religious Liberty, she conquered the .hordes of France, and swept the. seas of ; her assailants. It is so in the history of: other nations. -Faith of some sort at least exalteth a nation. NimOrjGiTCERiNE. — One of the last Acts .of Parliament,, rendered .necessary by the receut' fearful accident, was passed to /prohibit,; for a limited period," the importation and to restrict and; regulate the carriage of nitro-glyeeriue. Save as mentioned, txo person, after the passing of the Act, is to bring- into 'any port or harbour of the -United Kingdom^ or ship <or -unship on, from, or near the- coasts of any part of tke.Uriited Kingdom, any nitro-glycerine. By acting in contravention to the provisions'the. party : is to be g-uilty r df a misdemeanour,, and liable to be imprisoned, with'ot without hard labour, for J One 'year, andallnitrp-glyceriue brought -into any port is, to be,' forfeited. New regulations are to made as to. the' manufacture, saley-and-carriage of-nitro-glycerine, and notice of nitro-glycerine is to given, and search permitted for the article. The Liquefaction ,-of St. Januarius. — A very amusing accouutof theliquefaction of the blood of St. Januarius has appeared i«,.;,tbe , Times, . and another, apparently by r the ■: same 'writer, but with different touches; in'lhaJP all Mall Gazette. It would seem from- these -narratives that' the miracle 1 is impressive neither to Catholics' nor to Protestants, — that it is a periodical "translicfiou" "popular in Naples e.h.iefly.-as.. giving, occasion. tQ a, public holiday , of the wilde,st.,kiud, and. that :the liquefaction takes place chiefly through the agency of motion— or, at least,' ouly takes place after the vessel •(a sort of carriage-lamp) which holds it- has been turned about repeatedly. If, however, motion is the cause of liquefaction, surely the ;suhsuince, , whatever: it be, should solidify again when the vessel is at' rest, — whereas it would seem that. after having b^en kissed by all who care to kiss it, the vessel. is "placed on the altar till evening," and the liquefied suhstauce'dbes not ;>gain congeal till it. is put out of sight. Science of " Acoustics." — A Scene in an American School. — "Vagabonds in thefirst, class, arise!" thundered our school teadier, as he threateningly rattled Id's rattan on the. desk. We arose, and waited further orders from the pedagogue. ":Now answer every question correctly, or Til "~ break every bone in your bpdies!" was the. next pronunciam'ento of : the autocrat, of the old red schoblbbuse. "Jake Smith ! what do you understand jby .^acoustics?" ?"Why,.' sticks to drive cows with, I'spose." "Get out, you young reprobate! . Didn't .1 -just seel you reading about the science of sounds?" "Gl-uess not; ' That was 1 about Sylvester Sound, the somnambulist." {? It, was, eh? Mary4uyou« are- Jake's, younger . sister ? " Yeth, thjr" 41 " What is acoustics ?" ( .,. "I l^bw^t'hir'^t ith',' it iththe art dfma'kiug a noith, and hearing a noith." "You are rigb.t-7-explaih"Tt>" ■'[ Yjeth,- thir. • . If -you thick your finger in your' mouth and then pull it but thuddenly*. the cold air rutheth into the vakkium and procluthet'ha thouud — Ihe thound thriketh- 'o,n;;the,', tu^npan of the: ear, wh ich m ake th the . t. hpu n d aud ible, and it ith called thethience of acouthixth." '■ Exactly. so;; 'Mar;y ; ..ct^c°vbj can you now telbme?whati : iisi meant by the sciences of acouatics-?^-:,-Be;;careful :^or-^ • rnjyii.iStick^'si'.-^iYies^.j, sir.fe'j;,, A^ijcow.;; .Sticks! ypur J finger in;h'er\'m „tbie;i;inl! p an;'.'w'hich^ called the^cience^

\ At a late municipal, electionrat Hokitika one of the candidates is reported' to* have urged as a ■, proof that "lie" was well fitted for the 1 office to which , he aspired, that: he "once'" wrote, Composed,' and ' : corrected one hundred 'lines "of (excellent rhyme ' upon t'he'death bf'a child, whilst a crack amateur" • runner did his two hundred yards."- "