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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 241, 11 October 1890, Page 4

The connection between colour and Bound is already oooupying the attention ol several explorers of Shes field ol nature. M. Pedrous, a physician of (Nantes) France, affirms that he sees the oolour of sounds, and states that human voiceaare red, blue, blaok, tan, slate, and all other colours. Mrs. Watts Hughs goea still further. She has been pursuing a course of delioate investigations into the aotion of Bound, and has arrived at the remarkable reßult of making pictures by notr s of music. An elaetio membrane, covered with B semi-fluid paste, is stretchsd over the mouth of a hollow receiver. The musical note of the singer mirrors itself in the paste in the moat unexpected form of flowers, ferns, shells &0., the form and size of picture varying with the tone and character of -the note. What application oan be made of this wonderful discovery remain to be seen.

Ulm Cathedral as now completed (the top stone waa set a short time ago) haa the highest Bpire ia the world. Its height is 630ft. Consider this, that if Ulm Cathedral were set down in the deepeßt part of the German Ocean 130ft of it would stand out ofsha water,

The ladiea a;re advancing. Not content with topping the Senior Wrangler they now aspire to tibiae in the " noble art of self-defenoe." Boxing is to be the latest accomplishment added to the fair ones' list. Needless to say, America is setting the fashion. The pugilists of the United States, it is said, are enjoying unwonted prosperity in imparting their science to lady studeuts. Already some of their pupils must be " shaping well," if we are to credit a little anecdote in one of the American papers. " One of New York'B fairest and wealthiest," it is said, was walking down Fifth Avenue when a man whom she did not know walked beside her, raised his hat and spoke to her. Without a second's hesitation the youug lady dealt the shiny and carefully brushed chateau a right-hander that Bent it rolling into the mud, and planted a left-hander between her insuiter's eyes that tumbled him after and on top of his hat, Then " with scorn depicted on her features, and conscious of her own superiority," this fair one marched placidly on amidst the applause of & few on-lookers, while the unfortunate individual who had received such unexpected chastisement picked himself up, and his battered head-gear, and slunk away. If this sort of thing goes on the " unprotected female" will become a mere legal fiction, and any reference to the " weaker vessel" as applied to lovely woman, would be construed as Bimple irony, if it be not avenged with one " straight out from the shoulder " of the affronted fair. Of oouree, the wily pugiliEts are doing what they can to " egg on " the American girl, as they would put it, and thus bring grist to the mill. They warrant their pupilß not only powers of sell-defenoe, to whioh they have hitherto been strangers, but " a perfect figure " and a«• beautiful complexion. " Of course boxing is unquestionably a healthy exercise, and it may go a long way towards securing these desiderata, especially as the professors very wisely lay great stress on a " rational dress" and a plain diet as part of their course. To lady boxers all sweets and pastry are forbidden food. Still we humbly submit that there are other exercises besides boxing whioh would be more suitable to the Bex, and would prove at least as beneficial in their effects. However, we doubt whether remonstrances addressed to the American jiil aro of much use. She will have her own wilful way for a time, until some other craze takes possession of her mind, and then boxing will become a thing of the past, As for English girls, unless they really think it is a necessary preliminary to the suffrage, we hope they will leave it severely alone. — Prets.

In a paper in " Chambers' Journal," entitled '• Railway Commission Jottings," it ia stated that on one of the great trunk lines in England, no fewer than 3700 men were employed as special signalmen during a five days' fog ; that on the great Northern every thing except express passenger trains has to give way to fish traffic, the fresh meat traffic being specially pushed through also ; and that the charges are so enormous as to leave no margin of profit to the fishermen, for the cost of carriage amounts to 50 per cent, of the gross prooeeds. The transport of milk is also so expensive as to enable Dutch dairymen to send it over sea in a frozen Btate at lower rates.

The Church Missionary Society has just benefited to tbe extent of one chilling, sent to it as ooußoience dxqlqj by a Lincolnshire penitent. The letter was accompanied by the following letter :— •• Mr Wen a Boy i stole a few £ pence from a man ic bothers me the Man is Dead so i hav sent you a shilling for the Missionary to take it of my mind— getting a Old M&n."~ Globe.