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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VI, Issue 220, 16 September 1871, Page 4

Some one wrote to Horace Greely, inquiring if guano was good to put on potatoes. He siid it might do for those whose tastes had become vitiated with tobacco and rum; but he preferred gravy and butter. A Joint-stock Company, mos t of whose shareholders are substantial and practical Swedish farmers, well acquainted with the dairy trade, has been formed in the province of East Gothland, Sweden, for the purpose of making butter on an extensive scale for exportation. They have received so much encouragement that they are already able to produce 10001 b per day. A Tipsr Chinaman is a rarity, only two or three having been known in Melbourne within tbe memory of the oldest police officer, but something still more unusual came under the notice of magistrates at the City Court, viz a Celestial setting up as a defence that he was '* welly dlunk." Ah Kong was caught trespasing in a highwalled yard, and in order to escape got up on an archway Bft. high and jumped down haphazard, though the night was pitch dark, landing so lightly that his pursuer thought he would not have broken an egg had he descended upon it. Ha was locked up for being illegally ou the premises, being well known to the police, and pleaded that he was intoxicated, and lost his way. In order to accustom his eyes to high walls, he was sent to gaol for six months' hard labor. A Great Pakis Printeb and his Men. — --Before the war, M. Paul Dupont, the great Paris printer, carried on a business of 5,000,000 francs a year. He divided 10 per cent, of the net profits amongst his workmen, according to their individual merit, and not in regular proportion to their different salaries. This house, sayß Mr Thurlow's recent report, has followed this course for 20 years, and claims tbe first place in the application of one of the happiest and most successful ideas of modern times. Each new hand, on admission, receives a silver medal, worth 5 francs, ; as a badge of office and link between him; and his employer. This establishment has its sick and provident funds of all the usual kinds. Its loan of honor; to,? its! workmen, its Caisses de Retraitre.i its; schools, libraries,^readimj, and siDgi-ag rooms,' its savings banks, its co-operative* stores, its <famLlisteries, gardens,* baths— in short, every invention of modern days for promoting health, wealth, happiness, and religion; To use! the words of M. .Dupont Jjimself :-r- c ( Mt is more than a workshop— it is a family composed of athousand persons."