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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 19, Issue 1251, 17 February 1872, Page 2

lii 18-46. there were twelve daily papers in Boston ; now there only eight; The remains of a fossil elephant have been discovered at Louisville* Kentucky. A weekly newspaper in French—to represent public opinion in India —ha* appeared in Madras There are now three comets visible with a telescope in the heavens Encke's, which performs its revolutions round the sun in three yeais and a few mouth* ; Tuttle's first seen in 1790 by Meehain, and re-discovered in 1858,. which takes between 13 and 1.4 years, to describe its orbit ; and TempelV comet, discovered at Marseilles on Juno 14 last. The New Orleans Picayune tells the following story :- A lady was reading to her servants an account of the Chicago (ire. The incident of the burning of the Emancipation Proclamation, which cost that city 25,000 dollars for its Historical Society, arrested the attention of one old colored woman, a slave all her life, who viewed the pro? claniation much as the Israelites did the ark of the Covenant. « What dat, n she said, "burnt up?" "Yes, aunty, burned up." " Pen what gwine cmiw of us again V " I dont't know ; may be you'll be slaves as before." "Den dis chile gwine to die right now." Awl throu ing up her hands iii dismay, she left the presence of her mistress, visiting dire imprecations on the head of the man '* what sot out dat fire." At Castlemaine, the believers in spiritism sometimes obtain prescription* for their ailments from a deceased doctor, through a lady medium. On one oceasion, one of the faithful presented a prescription to a local chemist, vh° made up the medicine. " Do you knofy madam, what the effect of this mixt'U' 6 will be?" inquired the. druggist, "because,'' he added, " my belief is, that if you take it you will to-morrow morning be covered witli an eruption of om spots." The lady abstained. Girls, make a note of this remark of an old worn out beau : " A man vb* most compliments a woman is the out wlw rnost despises her."