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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 6, 7 January 1870, Page 3

A young- lady at Brighton has a photographic album, containing male friends, labelled "Book of Hims." A Cincinnatian has watered 100 dollars that he can carry an anvil, weighing 700 pounds, seven miles without resting. Fifty-three women clerks have been placed on duty ns copyists in the Patent Office, Washington — salary 700 dols. per annum. A Boston paper is "in favor of women j voting if they want to." A Western paper "would like to see the man who could make them vote if they didn't want to." The women immigrants of Northern Europe who have settled iv the Far West continue their old country habit of working in the fields, and do as much work as the men. The following is a copy of the sign upon an academy for teaching youth in one of the Western States: "Freeman and Huggs, 3choo!-teachers. Freeman teaches the boys and Huggs the girls." It is reported that a young lady out West, who recently received unpreoedentedly large damages in a breach of promise case, had engaged herself to . eleven of the twelve jurymen who gave her the money. A demonstration to secure the release of the Fenian prisoners was held in Hyde Park on the 24th October, but was in every sense a complete failure. The feeling of the country is quite decided on this question ; and if they released the convicts, the Ministry would not stand one week after the Parliament met. The San Francisco 2\ews Letter gives the following in reply to a correspondent : "Young Mother,"your little poem upon a " Baby " is a gem, and we regret we have not space for so exquisite a tit-bit. If you have a fault it is the trifling one, common to all young writers, of sacrificing melody to hard sense. The third stanza is a striking instance : — Dooxery doodle-urn, dinkle-um dum, Turn to its mozzery muzzery raum, Tizzery issery. boozery boo, No baby so sweet and so pitty as 00. The Pall Mall Gazette tells us, on the authority of a Russian paper, that " an inmate of one of the prisons in St. Petersburg has obtained damages to the amount of five roubles from a friend who neglected to forward a letter to the Spanish Cortes, in which the prisoner offered himself as a candidate for the thro De. His letter was as follows : —' I am the nobleman Yon Robert, and consequently an individuality. I have acted for some years as superintendent of the post station at Krassny, and gained nothing by it but 150 criminal actions (which vouches for my unselfishness ;) besides this I have served in a regiment of hussars and a regiment of grenadiers. I have been in custody five years (four in prison). I speak three living languages fluently. My form is majestic, prepossessing, and ray features full of expression ; therefore when I am on the throne of Spain I shall not compromise the Spanish people, whom I hope to love as my own, by a miserable exterior.' " This story may be possible —at least if the Russian Courts of Justice are given to a very grim sort of practical irony, and wish to impress on the Russian population that madmen have a very tangible chance of being voted a throne by popular revolutions.