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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 8, 10 January 1870, Page 3

Hobart Town telegrams state that Mr. Walter Douglas, evangelist, from New Zealand, invoked the curse of the Deity upon some young men who had created a disturbance nt a prayer meeting. Great confusion arose on the platform, and the incident occasioned considerable excitement in the city the following day. A French Inventor has taken out a patent for "stockings with garters attached." An amateur violinist lately gave as much latitude in the choice of tunes as the proverbial Hobson used to give in horses. He remarked, as he rose with his bow, "Well, boys, I cannot play but one tune ; now, which'Jlyouhev ?" Which they all thought they would. A Child in Kent has been killed by a ferret. In the absence of the parents the animal entered the room and attacked the child, and when the father returned he found his infant quite dead, its eyes removed, and part of the nose gnawed away. Doubtful. — The address of the Mayor of Cork to the Lord-Lieutenant on his recent visit to that city has, by some accident, been copied into a local journal as the address of the ladies of Cork ; and this mistake is more to be regretted as the following passage figures couspicuously in that document: — "Nature has done much for us, but man almost nothing." StrAng-e Suicide. — A boy and a girl, children of a Birmingham cabman, were in bed, when their father entered the bedroom, and the girl noticed him tie a handkerchief round his neck, and attach it to the bedpost. Next morning the father was standing in the same position, and they remarked that " father had been standing there all night." He was dead. The girl said to the coroner "she thought he was joking," and went to sleep again. Waste op Money. — An Irishman recently soliloquised — What a waste of money to be buyin' mate when you know the half of it is bone, while you can spind it for rum that hasn't a bone in it ! "Where was Bishop Latimer burned to death ? " asked a teacher, in a commanding voice. — "Joshua knows," said a little girl at the bottom of the class. — "Well, if Joshua knows, he may tell," said the teacher. — "In the fire," replied Joshua, looking very grave and wise. All Eight. — Yes, but how few write anything worth reading ! A very unsatisfactory eort of bread — The Roll of Fame. j