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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXV, Issue 181, 4 June 1891, Page 2

A lady contributor to, a ladies' journal il very severe upon the male, bluestocking, and worse atiil on the '• Boientifio mala bore " Tins lady, it Baeme, has been permitted to sit by when i some very distinguished astronomers, physicists, anthropologists and representaJ tives of other "ista '» have baen at table: and Bhe honestly confesses that she has fonnd their oonversation leas profitable and faVlesa ' entertaining than " tattle ahout bonnets." Ihia audaoious person has even ventured to v draw up a sort ol bill of fare of the feast ol ■< conversation Bet before her on these occasions. •" which reads as follows i-*-" Entremets V The weather. Potagea : Dead silence. Poi scon: A * pun by one who stuttered. Bntries : A slow i and halting disquisition by a very deaf man oo lhe germs of disease discoverable in food. ' Bou : Meditations on above. Yalaille : Btorv about the Amarioan who, _o.j novel anecdote from Joe Miller; Whawellon Chinese muaio. Relev&s: Renewal of decorous vaonity. Dessert: Botanical names bf ailthe flowen on the table." The last coarse' it described as, perhaps, the most irritating of 'all," (or ii tends to prolong itself throughout the evening. ' : ™ George Hewitt, a n?an witjv .^ wift and . seven ohildren, living at Ringer*,;: near s Inverell, New South Wales, in a hVolotSS "" and half -starved oondition, ahd' aUost ' without shelter, won Tattersall's > „10.000 consultation on the Birthday Oup; The family has lived in the greatest 'poverty.' ; receiving olothea and food from the town_- l! people, ' ' • .. '.'■:. i ■■> Last week, after lighting a fire _tthe kitohen on the Randwiok raoeoohrse. near "'■" , Sydney, the cook fouud that the place Qjl«d '• with emoke. He extinguished the fire, and on looking up the ohimney aaw a man jammed in the flue feet downwards. He waa dead, and it took, several hours' work to set the body out of the ohnnoey. The body haa not baen identified, bm the unfortunate man waa supposed to hava been a vagrant, and that he got stuok in the chimney whilst | attempting to make his way down to rob the kitohen, and was suffocated by the heat aad emoke resulting from the previous day's u«a of the fireplace. A notebook with^evsral • betting transactions recorded in it was tha only property found in his olothing The New York HeraM publtshssa remifk^ ' able story of the escape of Miss __•_•,< Dick,. inaon, the well known advooate of WomeiiV Rights from the Asylum for the _S _J DauviUe, Pennsylvania, where she had foe" ' oonfinedsiuoethebeginnidgof Marbh. 52 ptokinsondcßoribes her exporienoe in the ra_C_ lum as Jiaving been terrible, and oomplairiaoY ( th c bad quality of the food'and the BrutaUtv ' x of the keepers. She accuses a 'relative of ' having, hy a deeply laid soheme, cV»ed 'her incarceration aB a lunatyV »nd^ubiishfll ' etrauge atoiiea about the poverty of ihe ; : family, besides making appeals for pecuniary aid. Aooording lo the Herald, « fund of 20,000a0l has been raised for the relief of Miss Anua Diokingoo, who ia now taking the steps neoessary to ensure her liberty ahould ' ahe return to i Pennsylvania, •♦ •v~ • During the oourse of a. recent address the ' Rev Qhafera Weloh, chaplain to the Primate 1 of Australia, Baid he eutertauied' strohg convictions that they Were entering upb_ a r period in the worlds history suoh asTwia unknowns period unequalled for elements ■-' Of disorders and results. of Soffering' The world was makiug an experiment whioh it v had never made before, except _____ ih thebuilding of the To*V otßKef &h_ - naUonß of the world were twin* » to __*«•»' themselves without the help oYgSS thia waa even ao in England, wkioh owrf».i , muoh to her rehgioua faith kiXlas? That waa our greatest error, and it wonM , Wing us intoa stateTf anarbh/and^Ser?? 1 ingsuohas the .world had n«ve?S one. of the most; interesting! an! JuIKK ■ monarchs o| v Jnrope,, as well aa onS^Sr, -xea.iaaya; .a .^oudon : paper>,kJ Roxtoiijiixs ineridiau maubood, over, tf f eet in hetehk W* .■-• and could probably make profitable en_a„efet; meats as a "strong man." He oan t® at«V--horaeahoe out o£ shapefor ihtoaly -ahaWlS '' airnoat, wHh.hia inakjid haidtj,^titiS&i!® A vwm.ght iron \vom, strength 0 f hia arnis^klva^Ud^flffi^^ language, ho epeaka 'tfwi^'GfoMfet tog Wi' H SMh^a[k_Bh^®^ Danish .and fa, alsofone^J uen.and haa U(_et'tW_^ muaement., He riaes^^ffl§r»^ foment, being* deapo s ti^and"h^n»6%«^! ne, he is almost inbe£a_iOylo#_®«#' % ]A^man,was:WUea lv;alsiwSiWl%^