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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXVI, Issue 75, 1 April 1892, Page 4

In the Hungarian women wo purposely overlook any fables that may exist, for, without palavar, tho Hungarian women are among the most beautiful in the world. They are not languishing, diaphanous orea tures, composed of oobweb3 and the odour of musk, with a eiokly pallor or a hcotio flush iv their oheeka, No ; erect and Blr.dght t s a candle, hearty and vigorous to the core, tho rnre pictures of good health and abounding vitality. They aro gifted with email feet, full arms, plump hands, with tapering lingers, and wear long braids. The buu has epread a reddish golden tint or a darker tono over the complexion, The Hungarian woman is uot a beauty of olaesical contour, nor does Bhe perhaps frequently prtseut a riddlo to the psychologist, and ethoreal poets will scarcely find a theme in her for hyperseot mental icveries. She is rather tho vigorous embodiment of primeval womanhood — Wilhelm Singer in Ilarpcr's,

Fran Prubstl, who enjoyed tho diatiuctioa of being the heaviest woman in Europe, has just died nt Traubriug, in Bavaria, at tho ngo of 41. At ,her death eho weighed over 6501 b, or 30st 41b, and ou account of her enormous weight it was impossible to cany her oufllu from the first stjry of the ho us a in whioh she lived. Consequently boards were put down tho st.iircase, over wbioh the cotlin was elid, Frau Probstl, it ia said, enjoyed good health till within a few weeks oi. her death, al> though she could ;ake no exercise whatever, for s'ie had remarkably small feet, which, for the last few yeara, since alia increased so enormously ia size, wtro quite incapublo of austaiuing her weight,

Tea was highly eatteniecl in nearly every ancient Afiatio oi'y near tho rou and was ueed os a royal giU from the Ohiueuo mouaichs and great uieiohanm to the potentates of the east. To tbo rajahs of Kandy, the BUU&nm of Ceylon, the thoguus mid Uni~ nniuß of Japan carefully selected entnples of the leaved, packed in pieeious bosub, woro s> nt with gteut jegulaiily, Some mußd have fat'eu pm-Oi.ts wcrtl) v crown, Oio of them wnu thuj iiOuidtd : " ii wdguwl foity cottieo— about fifty pounds— nnd each lenf was perfect in colour, Biae mid uge. The leuvea were bividti'd iuto pa.oela ol fivo mi.Oi.B '-kioli (a little over hull i\n ouuee) und, euou paioel Wuß wrapped in l^ura silver foil. This wi.s vvrupp=d in turn in thin white paper and put iuto a little bag of bright coloured silk. A bundled bags were placed into v porcelain jar whofeo lid wus securely fuatened and sealed, end each jar was protected by a box of camphor wood trimmed wiib. silver hiugeß and or» nainents. Iv the list of princes to whom theau preeeutfi were mode are inauy whose identity would bo othersviee lost- to history. "—Philadelphia Times. Plain death excites but little attention. It must bo presented iv 6orae novel form to olaim particular notice in a community where there is un average of a death every ten minutes of enoh twenty-four hours. Even' deaths of a violent nature must preHent new phases or iuvolve poisons of importance to be worth much space ia tho New York newapipera. Suicides havo beeomo bo common i»nd uninteresting that it is not uuusual to sco four or live attempts in tb.it line occupy not more than as niaoy lines, i-ach grouped ui.dcr a general head. Sj small and utterly insignificant ;t thing is death in a great oity.— A'ew York Herald.