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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 122, 25 May 1891, Page 4

i^ >:, $l«sirlQ Hghfclnp is making its way fat *? iik^BerUtt, The Linden Walk, the Fried. ; ' rloaatrwM, and all the fine streets brattohih to* oat of thU bn»y throroughfare are now with milky globes. • "• T ' The cable business of Viotoria has doubled ; : -%'iUx6e the introduction of the reduoed cable ' ■ Uriff. That, like the similar result in the ; reduotipnof the postal oharges, is the best wiimont f or the ohango. / The Australian papers don't think moon of , the new. otuuers. One ol them says -.—Two : ' of the Auekraliaa ocuiaers hare sailed for , Sydney— lhe Bingaroonaa and the Tauranga, ov Tbeee namea sbould be remembered, as either ; One orbqtbof them may oome in handy in \. the leflprf to aooount lor certain wreckage to iv be yet pioked up in no particular latitude or loflgitade. o 'Is : France, as a result of peasant proprietorship, out of a population - 87,000,000/ oTer 24,000,000 live in the rural districts. In England and Wales, q ;M:-ft . reßnJlt of the opposite system, ' 8,000,000 only live ia the country, and 17,000,000 ia the towus. The Sydney Daily Telegraph, while sympattt&iug with the Jews expelled from' Eußßia, oppoßea their wholesale influx into Australia. Ho far did old Bismarok carry his political animosities in the old days that even he and Marshal Von Moltlte were bub on! the coldest speaking terms. Neither has ever dined at the other's The oustom of Chriatmas.boxes arose with sailors. In the infancy of navigation they nailed a box to the mast of the ship ela going to sea, and at times of storm or "danger dropped a piece of money in the box tor prayers to be said for them, which 'collections, it they returned safely, they & ? presented to the church. \IV ifl estimated that ever 20,000,000 oigars are manufactured every clay in the United Utates alone, and this enormous number requires ia the neighboiu-hoodoi 420,000 boxeß for their keeping. As a result there are over 200 factories in the .., Qountry turning theße boxes out. The wood of whioh these boxes are made , oorasa from Mexico, Central Ameiioa, and the West Indies. Paris bicyoliste are required to obtain licences, wnioh may bo withdrawn in case of reckleßß riding. Tlte Marquis of Kiponhas santaoheque for £100 towards the " Darkest England" Ifund, which h« wishes should be devoled to tho " ifarm Colony " scheme. The Grerman army is so Unprovided officers that the Emperor has issned an ordinanoe, by whioh tne number will be increased during next few years. The London Missionary Society wiU in .■ future admit ladies to its board, The Amerioan Jfrespyterians have resolved that women may be appointed to the office of deacon. % , This is from an artiole in " Woman "on the Queen Eegent of Spain:— "lt iM said that, on the morning otthe day on whioh proposed to the Arohduohess, .., her maid had inadvertently given her odd .garters, whioh she also inadvertently put on. She alwayß afterwardß inßutedon wearing garters oi different coioUi'S, t , (Baying they brought her luck. Borange to say, oh the day Ah^onso Xll. died (26 November, 1886), her attendant had py jonie mistake, handed her a pair ot . garters of the same colour." Sir Charles Gavan Duffy has been interviewed at ixice, and asked to state his views upoathe present condition of Ireland, Be admits that he iB merely an onlooker, but he compares himself to " the purler on fine ditch, who sees more of the game liiah the players," He thinks that Mi 1 , i^ai'uell has guilty oi " prodimf ous blunders," but that iv« popular ous'thusiaSm for him now extiibicua in Ire-land-is "for the most part quite real". -He oonßidei's that the iviah party ought not to retain Mr. Tarnell, as he had made vis return to power ooious to men of honour.

During avepeut gale at Halifax, NovaSootsia, cue fishing sohoouer Senator Morgaa, of Gloucester, MassaohnsutD, dashed ashore at Cow Bay, a point east of thaij pore. The sea wait so high that it < meant certain aeath to try aud laud on the rocky beach, The crew then lighted a fire 1 pu deok. This "was done in order to att'raot attention to their perilous position. Two brothers,' named Mpsher, ou perceiving the flames, hastened to afford assistance. The oaptain ot the Senator Morgan threw a tab overboard containing a life-line, but it did not make ior land. The brothers Mosher were fortunately accompanied by their dog, /which they enoouraged to enter the foaming water. The animal with marvel, lous sagacity swam out to the tub, secured the life-line and brought it to shore. A hawser by this moans was hauled to the beaob, and the Senator Morgan's oreW, eight mall, succeeded by lte help in scrambling to land, with great difficulties, and after many exciting failure* Some statistics mat issued by tho •Breach Ministry of Justice reveal the astounding fact that during the last year there were no fewer than 8451 cases of Buioide in Frano, being at the rate of about 23 per day. The largest number occurred among perßono in easy oiroum. stances, and not among the poor, the former supplying half the total, and the latter between 1200 and 1300. Domestio troubles, physical suffering and insauity geem to have driven most of the people who form these statistics to put an end to bheir lives. Unrequited love • 'wm the cause in about 200 caseß. In regard to the means of self-destruction •mployed, 3600 unfortunates hanged thomselvoß, 2243 died by drowning, about 1000 blew out their brains, while 442 had recourse to charcoal Strango to say, the month of May yields the largest number of suicides. In January • there were 604, February 487, Maroh 715, •April 820, May 924, June 851, July 825, August 786, beptember 673 Ooteber 603, November 689, December 574. At an American cotillion party given recently, the dresses and decorations were modelled upon those of the sixteenth century. In the ballroom the walls were wainscoted with flowers and gar. landed with "winter flowers," to quote from the account in an American paper, In the supper room yellow and violot were the colours. In the centre the Frenoh fleur-de-lys, in yellow roses, sprang from a orown of violets, with Bmall eleotrip lights representing the jewels in the band, and a larger light at eaob. point. Above it was suspended a crown of eleotrip lights, shaded by purple and yellow" silk. Pew English people know what wonaerial feats «f engineering have been accomplished in the Andes. Ib appears that the highest inhabited place in the "™j» «&lera,a railway village in Peru, 15,W5ft, above the sea, or within 100 ft. Of the summit of Mont Blanc. Near it a tunnel 3847 ft. long is being bored through tho peak of the mountain, COO ft above the , perpetual snow Hue. The railways of the Andeß exhibit some of ; the.most marvellous results of engineering skill which the world contains. , -,c A Derbyshire correspondent of " Kod And Gun" reports an exciting episode. Mr Jpha Bmedfey, of Matlook. Bath, the owner of the famouß Cumberland Oavern, Aha .several friends, were coursing ou the heights of MaseaL The hare disappared down an old lead-mine shaft which had fallen into disuetudb. Sure that it was dead, he hired an old miner, who .descended the shaft by means of a rope. There were footprints, and believing tho bare to have escaped miraculously, Mr. Smedley lowered a oabbage tied to a string, the depth of the shaft measuring an actual perpendicular length of 240 ft, The next day, on drawing up the twine, ".the oabbage was loundto have been eaten. , Ibis seemed proof positive of the escape .of the hare after iteming leap. A aearcli descended the shaft with lighta and . *efreßhmentß,.and, after two hours, they ' they found that the animal was lurking *Ui a small heading at the bottom. They returned to the surface, and continued to lower food, which pussy appreciated to the full, and on their descent being made * «h« jumped into the armß of the searcher, squealing all the time like a child. The ; wan wrapped the affrighted hare in a amook frock and sent her up to the top, ■ where the spectators discovered that she lied only, suffered an injury to one eye. Mr-Smedley took the animal home, After it had been in a stable for BOtno Otdmeit was taken and turned loose on the 1 %«rtate of F. O, Arkwright, J.P., olose to oWillerby Castle. The har* ha§ become quite tame, .