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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 283, 6 December 1878, Page 2

Boston Corbett, the avenger of Abraham Liucoln, still lives, though often reported dead. He is in Chicago at present, on his wayto Kansas, where he expects to settle on a home of his own. He says he is a good shot yet, and thinks he will be able to bring down a buffalo as easily ( as he did the assassin, J. Wilkes Booth He is eccentric, but. earnestly religious. • A ballet girl's tea is one of the latest forms of benevolent enterprise iri London, the promoter being the Rev W-. Forbes, ot the Holloway Mission, and the object being to bring within Christian influence • the theatrical work- women of the metropolis. To the tea, which is sometimes attended by as many as a hundred girls-^dancers, -chorussingers, and theatre-dre_sers— a -service of song is added, including addresses frora Mr : Forbes and his friends. * • • , A large portion of. the ancient" city of Ithaca has just been unearthed by Dr Schliemann, who bas discovered ; 190 enormous houses on the south-eastern shores of the island at a considerable distance beneath the surface. The result ofthe excavations, however, will in no way rival the finds at Troy and Mycenae, for Dr Schliemann writes that all the treasures of the city have been washed into the, sea by the winter rains. At recent military manoeuvres near Lyons, France, 400 out of the 1800 men composing a regiment fell on the road from sunstroke, during a protracted march, and four of the men died from the effects of it. In 1844 a man with a helper could weave not more than seven yards of Brussels carpet in a-day_ Now a girl will iweaveJflfty yards in that time. Five wealthy English girls are about to take jthe ,vpil, 'all having V considerably j'for-* tunes iri their own rights. - 'They are Lady Edith Noel, daughter pf thejEarl of Gainsborough;' tha Hon CbnsfenceJloward, sister of tbe Marchioness of Bute; two daughters of the Hon Maxwell Stuart, of Traquhar, Peebleshire; and the youngest daughter of Mr Blount, of Mapledurham, the representative of the staunchest Catholic family among commoners in England.

, Ah Eastern physician, Dr T. SfLamberti • claims that drowned^ persona may/be resuari citated even ,i£ they have j been: dead fojcf? hours. ,^IIe j^rst made this discovery tly? resuscitating.aTdrowried chicken,' which lay* iu;the wate^jtlll part of ifc" was frozen •sipi.' He simply got ifc warm, and tfcame to life} Afterwards he tried it on a dog, and during the summer drowned the same animal twenty times, and eacb time brought him round all light. To settle the matter definitely, Dr Lambert ought to offer, himself as „ a* subject for experiment. C ; ;■*. *-. \ \