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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 205, 30 August 1871, Page 2

The largest breweries in England each produce annually from 70 to 90 million quarts, of. beer. In one common stair in the New Town of Edinburgh, no less than 230 souls drag out a wretched existence. Dr. Rutherford Rtlet, late of Hokitika is a candidate for the representation of Levuka at the election of delegates to have taken place on the Ist iust. One Hundred and Forty Beds were engaged at two hotels for the witnesses in ibe Tichborne case, who were conveyed to Westminster Hall daily in special omnibusses. New Lisbon, Ohio, has the periodical girl that swallows pins and needles and has them taken out of her heel. She has yielded fifty-seven so far. The • recent census of Great Britain shows that England and Wales have .-aiued 2,700,000, in population in the Wist 10 years, while Ireland has lost 400,000. Arkansas is fearfully excited over a large bole. A tract of about 100 acres of Clinton Mountain has sunk, carrying big trees entirely out of sight, and the hole continues to enlarge its borders. California has 743 successful billiardsaloons, one of which has a bar inlaid with __old and moss agates, at a cost of 200,000 dollars. 3000 dollars a day ii not an uncommon sura to be taken at the bar of some of these saloons. Miss Beecher says: "Ifc is the side issues of the Woman suffrage question that liave caused me and others, who once favorably regarded it, to change our opinions." Miss B. is right. Free love is expounded by handsome but notoriously had women, and by virtuous but sharpnosed women with broomstick shins, wbif-h has swamped the cause. Uses op Sawdust.— The sawdust of various woods is now turned to good purpose.' That of boxwood is used for cleaning jewellery, whilst mahogany sawdust is employed for smoking fish. Birch and msewood sawdust is used by furriers in cleansing furs. In Faris common sawdust is very ingeniously utilized. A method has been discovered of forcing the material into solid moulds by the aid of heat and ihe hydraulic press. The sawdust thus pressed is said to present a brilliant surface which possesses great durability. Logwood chips, as is well known, are used by the manufacturers of fine fruity British port wine, lib. of logwood chips going to 26 gallons of cider, together with elderberry juice and other horrors. Paris Horrors. — Francisque Sarcey reports in the Gaulois ft conversation he had with an "illustrious physician who left Palis for a few hours, and was about to return," and who expressed the opinion that one of the chief cauae» ot the terrible scenes which accompanied the final suppression of the Communist outbreak was a " contagious mental alienation." The minds of the Parisians, he said, were gradually unhinged by the privations of tbe siege. The revolt of the 18th of March, gave the last blow to brains which were already shaken, and at length the greater part of the population went raving mad. The records of the middle ages are full of similar examples. * * * Women are, under such circumstances, fiercer and more reckless than men. This is because their nervous system is more developed, their brains are weaker, and their' 'sensibilities more acute than those of the Stronger sex ; and they are consequently far more dangerous aad do much more harm. * -.* * None of them knew exactly what they were fighting for; they were jaossessed by one of the various forms of the" religious mania—-- -that which impelled the Janaenistß to torture themstjlye.s yyith strange delight in pains of the acutest kind. * * * The men whpj threw themselves ou the bayonets of the soldiers iri 'a paroxysm of passion were seen tea minutes after utterly prostrate and begging for mercy. They were no more cowards in the last state than they were heroes in the first <— they were simply madmen. — Times. For remainder ofjiews Mijbmrth page.

A Masonic Temple is being erected in Philadelphia, at a cost of 1,500,000 dollars. At a recent breach of promise suit in Vermont, the fair one exhibited 763 love letters. An "^Mfobiogrnphy of the Devil" will shortly be published by the Rev. Dr. Beard, of Manchester. The only manufactory of hairpins in the United States" turns out 50 tons of those useful articles per month. Humorous Literature flourishes in Germany. It has at present 32 humorous newspapers, with an aggregate circulation of 285,000,000 copies. The anuual revenue derived from the trade iv alcoholic liquors in Great Britain aad Ireland is shown by a return just published to be £25,000,000. In a recent lecture Archbishop Manning said that three cities had been destroyed 1 for their sins — Jerusalem, Rome, and now Paris. A new morning paper is shortly to be started in London. Tbe promoters are sail to have capital amounting to £100,000 with which to make the venture. ...___