GENERAL EXTRACTS.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 79, 6 April 1869, Page 2

GENERAL EXTRACTS.

When some years ago the Kaffirs made such havoc among our troops at the Cape of Good Hope, an American backwoodsman, proud of bis rifle and his skill in using it, uq*ed upon a British officer to propose to his Gov. rnment, "'to enlist A.OOO Y..nki-e marksmen, each armed with a seven barrel revolving rifle, who would kill off the Injuns at the Cape in six months for the sum of 5.000,000 dollars, and they were ready to do it right slick away." Fon tue Ladies. — At the Mayor's Ball in Melbourne in honor of the Duke of Edinburgh Lady Manners Sutton wore an elegant royal blue moire antique dress, with tunic of Honiton lace ornamented en forme de punier, with bouquets of frosted satin flowers, and berthe of Honiton lace The dress worn by Miss Manners Sutton was of pink glace silk, with ruche a la vielle ; top skirt looped up en panier of pink gauze, with ruche a la vieile, looped on eacb side with small mossrose buds. A head-dress was worn to match, the dress. A new one-penny serial story is being pub lished in London, entitled '' Crimes of the Aristocracy." It professes to be " a series of strange events, undiscovered murders, and other crimes, compiled from important documents, stolen from among the private papers of his Royal Highness the Prince Consort, upon the night of the 1 4th "December, 18GI, by a footman in her Majesty's service!" Tub efficacy of kerosine as a curative agency in the treatment of burns was fully tested a few days ago at Dry sda.'e, Victoria, when the youngest daughter uf Mr Sidney Searl. not three years of age, fell into a vessel of boiling water. '• Having read in the Geelong Advertiser," says Mr Sjarl, "that kerosine effects a cure, 1 immediately filled a ba Mil with that article, and dipped th . poor little sufferer. I can assure you it had a wonderful effect. The child was delighted at being so instantly relieved from pain. Had I not scalded myself and wife in making jam a short time ago, ond found kerosine a cure, I should not have dared to place a child so young in it. and perh-ips before the services of a doctor could have been obtained, it would have died. In conclusion, I might mention that the skin was not even broken." A Cornish clergyman wishes to introduce into bis Church an " emptuma," — an article which it would probably puzzle Mr. Purchas, of Brighton, or the Southampton manufacturers of eccle-das-tical lurniture to describe. It is simply a spitoon, whicii he finds would be very useful to bis congregation. He would prefer it to ,be cast-iron, enamelled. A celebrated cliff in Denmark, the "Queen's Seat." has just fallen bodily into the Baltic from a shock of earthquake. The rock, about 400 feet high, was an object of great interest to tourists from the magniflcient view to be had from it.

Punctuation. — Csesnr entered on his head, his helmet on his feet, armed sandals upon his brow, there-was a cloud in his right hand ; his faithful swoxd'in his eye, an angry glare saying nothing, he sat down. A young fellow in California bet-that he would ride 300 miles .in fifteen hours. He performed this feat in fourteen hours eleven minutes, — a fraction more than twenty-one mile •* an hour. Physic is the art of amusing the patient while Nature, cures the disease. The new way to pay old debts — Give a fresh order. Why do women sp: nd so much time and money in dress ? asked a gentleman of a Nel.-on belle. To worry other women, was the sarcastic reply. There is a good reason why a little nam should never marry. a bouncing widow — He might be called the Widow's Mite.