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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXII, Issue 243, 15 October 1888, Page 3

I Several "plants" for manufacturing farin-i ] are aaid to be on their way out from BngI lnnd, and io is declined that/ New Zealand I will noon bo making h>>r own sbarcb, groit?, I pearl b^rl^y, and bo forth. I Thfi Water Famine Committee at Broken 1 Hill has reported to the Premier of New I South Wales that all the water in the locality I is highly mineralised and unfit for human I consumption. They ask that a competent I person may report on the question. I Among recent applications for patents in I New Zealand are two by Thomas Alva I Edison, who applies for patents for improveI ments in phonographs and phonograms, and I for improvements in phonogram blanks and I processes for making the same. I It is proposed to establish an " Asylum for I the Ugly 1 ' in Massachusetts. The institution I is intended to be a refuge for those of both I sexes whose personal appearance is so forbidI ing that they have no reasonable prospect of I ever inspiring the kind of affeotion that leads Ito matrimony. A mere absence of good looks I will not be considered sufficient qualification I for admission to the asylum; only the " hopeI lessly hideous" will be deemed eligible for I election. Candidates must not be under I thirty nor over Bixty years of age, nor will the 4 doors of the asylum be open to the absolutely deformed. The benevolent promoters of the I scheme entertain the notion that beauty % ia very much a matter of comparison. They believe the ugly when thrown together and upon their o Jm resources will discover iv eaoh other charms that fail to be recognized when they mingle with those more favoured by nature than themselves Under any circumstances it is anticipated that the sympathy engendered by mutual ugliness will develop into a warmer sentiment, and lead in many instances to a closer union, attended by the happiest results. The "gathering of the gaiters ;> (as; the World irreverently calls the collection of bishops in. connection with the Lambeth Conference), which took place at King's Cross, exceeded in magnitude anything remembtred by the oldest employes of the Great Northern Railway. There waa even a brisk demand for smoking carriagee, and the sight i of three bishops on their way to Cambridge, indulging without let or hindrance in the fragrant weed, reminded more than one of the spectators of the excellent stery of Archbishop Tait discovering two of his American visitors kneeling piously on their bedroom hearthrug and puffing smoke carafully up the chimney, during the last Lambeth Conference, j ihiDgs have somewhat improved since then ; bat it was an American, Dr Waldßtein, who provided for his compatriots the eagearly sought-after opportunity of a pipe of peace during their brief stay at the 'Varsity. Ii is rumoured on trustworthy authority that an American prelate was observed to get rid surreptitiously of something which looked very muoh like a " quid " in Trumpington street, but for all that, the trip to Cambridge was a welcome relief to the mind ecclesiastical, wearied by perpetual conversaziones.