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Timaru Herald, Volume IV, Issue 96, 16 March 1866, Page 5

Hoikeopathic Principles applied to Crime. — The following story is going the rounds of the American papers : — Last summer a bank clerk m New York stole 100,000 dollars. He lost the money by "fighting the tiger." He then called upon a lawyer and instructed him that he was a ruined man, and thought of suicide. This led to the following dialogue : — " How much does your defalcation amount to?" "One hundred thousand dollars." "Got any of it left?' "Not a cent." " That's bad ; you have left nothing to work with." "What must be done ?" " You must return to your desk and abstract another 100,000 dollars." " What must 'l do that for?" "To preserve your character and save you from going; to the prison. With the 100,000 dollars you are to steal tomorrow I intend to compromise with the Bank. Your stealings after to-morrow will amount to ' 200,000 dollars. I wilt call at the bank and confess your offence ; I will represent myself as your heart-broken uncle, • honest but poor ;' I will offer the bank 50,000 dollars to hush up the matter. The bank will accept. This will leave 50,000 dollars to divide between you and me, that is 25,000 dollars a piece. With this sum you can retire from business." The young man listened and took wisdom. He doubled his defalcation, and compromised as the lawyer said lie should. He is now worth £25,000 dollars, and is counted " one of the most respectable gentlemen m the city of New York."

A Valuable Relic of Nelson.— One of the most costly and interesting relics of the abovenamed gallant Admiral is still extant m the possession of a gentleman residing at Cheam, m Surrey. The same consists of a small golden pyramid, composed of the identical eighty-four guineas -which were found m the Admiral's escritoire, when he so gloriously fell m the arms of victory at the memorable battle of Trafalgar, on the 21st day of October, 1805. After Nelson's death these coins fell into the hands of Alex. Davidson, Esq., of St James' Square, London, the intimate friend and navy agent of the hero of the Nile, and who, as a mark of last, ing respect to his gallant friend, caused this pyramid to be made out of the coins, m a quadrilateral form, each side containing the complement of twenty-one guineas. Upon the occasion of Mr. Davidson becoming involved, some years afterwards, the relic under consideration was, among other property forming a portion of that unfortunate gentleman's estate, sold under the hammer by the eminent auctioneers of the day, the Messrs. Farebrother, and the pyramid adverted to was at that period purchased at the sale by a relative of its present possessor. With it are four large volumes elegantly bound m purple morocco, containing the whole of Nelson's original despatches; these important missals were primitively sterotyped on vellum by "Bentley," especially for the service of Mr,' Davidson ; the only other copy of this work was m the possession of the late eminent collector of antiquities, Mr. Beckford, of Fonthill Abbey, and is now m the British Museum.— English paper.

The Pboddction of Meat. — Mr. Mechi, m a letter to the Times, remarks that, while laying down m pasture the fields of our dry sunny cereal producing districts would be nationally a great mistake, it should be known that we have ample means for producing meat independent of material grasses. An acre of either wheat, barley, ■ oats, or beans, if a good crop, will, it properly prepared with its straw, produce a large quantity of meat, especially if aided by a moderate quantity of cake and roots. If we consume our corn crops on the farm, the means for the future production are left with us. Not so when we sell them off If the scythe were supplanted by sheeps' teeth, John Bull would no longer have to complain of short supplies and dear meat. The ordinary calculation is that 7 fba. of grain will produce 1 1b of meat, net butcher's weight. As wheat is under Id per Ib, and meat is 8d to 9d, it is clear that feeding will pay.

A woman being enjoined to try the effect of kindness on her husband, and being told that it ■would heap coals of fire on his head, replied that she had tried " boiling water," and it didn't do a bit of good.

The " Father of the Gallery," Mr. Thornton, the chief of the Timei reporting stafij after forty years of work, m whteh he was not absent one night until this year, has resigned hip post, at an age bat a year or two short of the late Premier's.

A paper of a scientific turn, published m Paris, - has naively expressed its regret at the departure " of cholera from the capital before sufficient timewas obtained to study, it thoroughly* -