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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 122, 25 May 1891, Page 3

According to the Pall Mall Gazette, an American newspaper, in disoussing tho facilities for divorce given in some of the Stateß> mentions the " oharming complications whioh once arose in the m6nnge of a divoroee with two girls, who married a widower with two boys aud had a second family by her new husband. It is eaid that when » terrible rumpus was heard in her nursery one day tbe nervous husband shouted upstairs, .'What is the matter 7' And the little wife answered sweetly over the banisteM* ' It 1 " only my ohildren and your ohildxen iaving a row with our ohildren, dear ' " Tbe power expended in tbe Niagara Falls is calculated to be as great as would be provided for Bteam engine purposes by the ' combustion of £66,000,000 worth of coals » TaiUy thousand trees are grown on the BVeeta'ot Waebfogton, the capital of tho Utfted Btat<*.*'"The. " up-keop" of eaob tree ooaVwhe* yotmf . awjy two Bhillinge p«r

A teftoher in a board Bohool was giving a •mall boy bis spelling lesson, ana writing tbe words OB tbe blackboard, pointing them out to bim. freaently ehe wrote out the word B-tHO-m-axi h. « What ie that, Willie?" "I think you'd know if you was as hungry as I am," was the astonishing answer. "Have you 'Hours of Idleness * here ?" I the maiden anked, as ehe Bauntered into the second-hand book shop. •' No, wo haven't, miss, " eaid the youth behind the oountcr, 11 The boss ib an old skinflint, and when we ain't doing any business he keeps us dusting tha books. " According to a telegram in the Now York papers from Madison, in the State of Maine, a meteor, whioh looked about the size of the full moon, burst over that town on February 22. the blazing fragments being soattered in every direorinn. The houses were shaken as if by an earthquake, and the inhabitants greatly alarmed. The report of the directors of the Forth Bridge Bsilway Company, submitted to the j rareting <">f the shareholders in London, stated that the amount expended on tbo bridge up to date had baen £8,340,248. One day the little Prince Imperiul asked his father the difference between nn acoident nnrl a mißforiue. "Well," replied tho Emperor, with a ghost of a Pintle playing about tbe corners of his mouth, " if our cousin, Prince Napoleon, were to fall into tho Seine, that would be nn ' acoident ;' if somebody fished him out, it would be a 1 misfortuno ' I"