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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 106, 8 May 1867, Page 3

In the early part of October last, there died in Home, with choleraic symptoms, Signora Amelia Barbieri, wife of Count Bennicelli. Aiter the funeral solemnities the body was deposited in the Campo Santo until it could be transferred to the church of Maddalena when the tomb which was being prepared had been completed. The tomb being finished a, few days since, the corpse was uncovered, when the fact became evident that the unfortunate lady had been placed in the coffin while she was yet living. The hands were bitten, the face was lacerated, the hair disordered and torn. The lid of the coffin had been forced up, and the muscles were contracted by the violent efforts that had been made. The nnhappy lady whose health had been delicate, was overtaken by a sudden attack, and has she evinced no sign of life it was presumed she was dead. The rumours of cholera led to her being hastily placed within the tomb. — Patrie.

A writer in the Times says : — The following may possii ly interest the British public Baron Marochetti, it is well known, has supplied the metal and made the castings, for which hoi s to receive £11,000. The weight of each lion is seven tons. Sir Edwin Landseer is to receive £6000. It is stated that a firm offered to perform Barou Marochetti's part of the work for £6000. Whether this be so of not, I can assure you that a partner of one of the most extensive and most important engineering establishments in this country, whefe complicated castings of

very large dimensions are constantly made, not only of cast iron, but of the alloy of which the lions are composed, informed me that paymeut at the rate of Is. 2d. per lb. would bs remunerative, and that he would undertake to produce castings at that rate. Thus you will perceive, sir, that £3650 (in round numbers) would have sufficed to procure for the nation what has cost £11,000.

Josh Billings' Philosophy. — I hold that a man haz just az much rite tew spel a word az it iz pronounsed az he haz to pronouse it the way it aiu't spelt. Earthli glory iz sum like potatoze on very ritch sile — top plenty, tater skarse. It ain't so much trouble tew get rich, az it iz to tell when we have got rich. The most bitter sarkasm sleeps in silent words. Hope iz everybody's handmaid, she iz a sli coquette and promises menuy favors, but grants ODly a fu, and them are badly diskounted. If you want tew git at the circumference ov a man, examine him amung men ; but if you want tew git at hiz aktual diameter, meazure him at hiz fireside. There iz nothing so difficult to hide az our follys. There iz but few men who have karakter enuff tew lead a life ov idleness. Tru Love iz spelt jist the same ia Chocktsiw az it iz in English. Buty that don't make a woman vain makes her very butif'ul. A puppy plays with every pup he meets, but old doggs have but fu associates. He •who buys what he kant want will, ear long, want what he kant buy. It kosts a good deal tew be wise, but it don't kost enny tew be happy. Necessity begot Invenshun, Inveushun begot Convenience, Convenience begot Pleasure, Pleasure begot Luxury, Luxury begot Riot aud Disease, who between them begot Poverty, and Poverty begot Necessity again — this iz the Revolushun ov man, and iz about awl '-.c brags on. There iz no such thiug az flattery : if commendashun iz deserved, it iz not flattery, but truth ; if commendashun iz undeserved, it iz not flattery, but slander. The luxury of grief!— this, i take it, means tew have yure old unkle die and leave yu 9000 dollars, aud yu cry, — Poughkeepsie Press. Grog may be taken medicinally : after goose, or duck, or pork, or Irish stew, or any delicacy of the season into which onions may have entered. luvariahly after lobster or salmon. When there is any washing being done at home. When the painters are iv the house. When a person is faint, and doesn't know what is the matter with him. When a friend turns up, after an absence of several years, or when you are parting with a friend whom you do not expect to see for several years. When a person has the toothache. When a person has lost at cards, or when a person has come into a large property, When a person has met with a a great misfortune, or made a tremendous bargain. When a person is riding outside a stage coach, or is on a sea voyage, or goes out betweeu the acts of a five-act tragedy, or before ascending in a balloon, or after coming off the jury of a coroner's inquest, or when you are sitting up for your wife, or when a friend drops iv to smoke a cigar ; and in fact upou all suitable occasions of sadness or merriment, when a person feels rather low, or feels in very high spirits. The accomplished author of " Ten Thousand a Year," Mr. Samuel Warren, Recorder of Hull, has recently borne valuable testimony, iv a letter widely printed, to the value of the mode of economically burning coals in grates which we described some years ago, and which is pretty well known in many parts of our country as our fire — the ''Builder" fire. Mr. Warren, however, omits in his otherwise excellent letter one of our especial points — namely, that when the bottom of the grate has been covered with a thin plate of iron (or, more cheaply, by spreading over it some fire-clay), and the coals have been put in, the tire should be lighted at the top. This necessitates lighting the fire some little time before it is wanted, or the mass will not have become incandescent ; but the gain in point of economy avoidance of trouble, and amount of steady heat, is very great iudeed. From a fire thus lighted properly, scarcely any smoke escapes — another very important advantage. — Builder. Goethe says — "It is only necessary to grow old to become more indulgent. I see no fault committed that I have not committed myself." " Well, Bridget, if I engage you, I shall want you to stay at home whenever I shall wish to go out;" "Well, ma'am, I have no objections," said Bridget, " providin' you do the same when I wish to go out."

The great tunnel excavated under Lake Michigan, for supplying Chicago with water, has been completed. It is nearly two miles long ; is dug 80 feet under the bed of the lake, beneath a stratum of clay, and was excavated without a single accident, the ground being first broken on 17th March, 1864. Its capacity is 57,000,000 gallons of water daily. The cost of the excavation was about £40,000. The necessary machinery for distributing the water through the city will be put in operation by next spring.