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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IV, Issue 82, 9 April 1869, Page 2

A Difficult Question. — The fall Mall Gazette has the fol lowing: — The Vienna tribunals will require Solomon's sagacity to settle a question that will shortly be brought before them. A few" hours before the last drawing of Austrian " Credit Shares " — a kind of lottery — two Mends meet in the street, and A asks B to accompany him for a walk. B declines, since he has yet to get four " Credit " tickets, and the drawing will commence in a few hours. A then begs that he will also get four for him, which B promises to do. A duly receives, before the drawing, an envelope containing his tickets, together with the account for four shares, which he at once pays. The envelope is put away, and in the evening the friends again meet, just before the result of th c drawing is known. The moment the list appears each looks to his numbers, and B finds to bis dismay that he has only three tickets, having sent to his friend A by mistake five instead of four — the one which has drawn the prize among them. At the same moment the lucky A also discovers the error, but declines to share his gains with his hasty friend, who will now call the civil powers to his aid. This Earthquake Wave ijt South America. M. Pissis states that the seismic or shock wave, in the great South American earthquake of the 13th August, 1868, appears to have travelled at the rate of 474 kilometres, or about 294 miles in an hour, taking Arica as the centre from whence the undulation started. An infidel remarked, in the hearing of a little | girl of four, that all things came by chance, and that the world, like a mushrooom, sprang up in the night. " I should like to know, sir," she asked," where the the seed came from?"