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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume V, Issue 224, 22 September 1870, Page 4

A Big Job. — Fifteen thousand workmen, says the Levant Times, are employed day and night ou the new kiosk which is being built at Scutari for the Sultan, making the fifteenth palace his Majesty will possess ia the capital, all wiihia a short distance of each other. Strong Beard. — Three brothers, bearing a remarkable resemblance to each, other, recently went into the same barber's shop, and on the same day, to be shaved — one going in the morning, the other at noon, and the third at night. When the last one appeared the barber, who was a German, dropped his razor ia astonishment, and exclaimed, "Veil, dafc man hash the fashtest beard I never saw ! I shaves him dis mornin', shaves him at dinner-times, and he comes back now, mifc his heard so long as it never vash.'* A story, reminding us of Robinson Crusoe and other heroes of oceau adventures, hus lately startled even this sensa-tion-sated generation. Six sailors, being part of the crew of an iron clipper ship, Mercuvius, which had visited Sydney and San Francisco, and was on her return voyage to Enghmd, have just reached Liverpool, and told a wondrous (ale of suffering, privation, resources, and heroism. The ship struck on a coral reef in latitude 3 dpg. 52 mm. S., longitude 33 ueg. 20 mm. W., and almost instantly went down. Of twenty-two men on board only six saved themseleves, by swimming about for two hours till tin? tide fell and they were able to got a footing on the sterile waste. Here, befriended by a few scattered relics of former wrecks, they contrived to exist, amid horrors unspeakable, fifty-one dreadful days, when they attracted the attention of a passing vessel, were rescued, aud brought to Liverpool.