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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIX, Issue 75, 30 March 1895, Page 3

Complaint is made that owing to the enormous bats now worn by sonic English ladies, it is almost im possible for people in back pews to get even a glimpse of the minister. The amount of ico cut for use in Chicago every year, is variously ustimated at between 1,000,000 and 2,000,000 tons. Thousands of men are now employed in the ice harvest. Wolves are getting rare in Western Europe, but they may still be found in the Vosges mountains in the winter, though they afford very poor sport. . "Your prisons are too good." So said John Burns .in America. Mr Tallack, secretary of the Howard Association, writing on the matter, says : — "Suppose wi take the case of an honest workman, say in New York or San Francisco, toiling from morning till night, just able to get a living, tat with few comforts and little Amusement, for himself and bis family. He may have for a neighbour, on one side, a lazj thievish loafer who never works, and on the other side a violent bully, guilty of crue) assaults on man and beast, and of indecent outrages on womoa and children; Yet it it not a fact that if cither the loafer or the bully is sent to an Ainericrn prison the chances are, at present, that ho will there find comforts of dietary, recreation, music, newspapers novels, gymnastics, and professorial teaching, even in the highei branches of education, which the honest worker can never hope to obtain ? Anil not ouly so, but the bully and the thief, il obliged to work in prison, will probably be put to labour of a higher character and shorter daily continuance than the other, and perhapß, also, be twined to some fancy trade or profitable art, which lie, too, •would most gladly learn."