CUTTINGS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPER.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 10, 11 January 1872, Page 2

CUTTINGS FROM THE AMERICAN PAPER.

O Slavery in Siam is to be abolished in January, 1872. Thirteen New York papers have died ia three years, losing 250,000 dols. Bets iv Paris ore that Napoleon will be back within the year. An Englishman died from the effects of cutting too deeply arouud a corn. The price of wife-beating has been raised from 2 dols. 50 ceuts to 3 dols. A Wisconsin man has established a sawmill on the Amoor river, and ships lumber to Japan. The shade of red called " Sang de Prusse" is very fashionable for street costumes in Paris. The " Birds and Worms " is the name of a Rochester society. Theix' object is to encourage early rising. One brand of Cincinnati whiskey is warranted to contain 437 fights to the barrel. Methodist churches were built in America lasD year at the rate of four per 1 diem. It is now proposed to put nitro-glycerine into trunks to warn baggage-men against handling them roughly. Melting up bricks and old crockery, and For remainder of news see fourth page.

selling lliera for Chicasro relics, is an extensive branch of industry at Detroit. Three thousand pianos were destroyed in the fire at Chicago. The engines could not play on them. The stammering silk thief who was caught in New York owned up to the officers that he was a gone co-coou. A good drain on a farm : Heavy mortgage at (en per cent, will drain it as rapidly as anything we kuow of. A Coroner's jury at L.i Crosse, Wisconsin, brought in a verdict of " probable murder," when a corpse was found with seven stabs in the back. On a Denver bridge is this notice : "No vehicle drawn by more than one animal is allowed lo cross this bridge in opposite directions at the same time." The Punch of'Londou, advisee Englishmen to hurrj' up with their subcription or Chicago will be rebuilt before they can get. them there. A young lady writes to a, friend : "Miss Smith is staying with us. We went out sailing yesterday. I didn't know there was so much io her." Proof positive — Good young Jady : ''Little boy, have you ever been baptized ?" Sirall heathen : "Oh, yes, mum; I have the murks here on my arm ! " A woman of the period advocating freelove doctrines in Halle, Prussia, was sentenced to two days' imprisonment on bread and water. Halle lujah ! Before hanging a man in Louisiana they let from fifteen to forty reporters for the newspapers " interview " him for three weeks. The poor fellow is then not only willing but anxious to be hung, The actors and actresses of New York contributed £14,000 for the relief of their unfortunate brethren in Chicago. The whole sura has been applied to its proper purposes and every cent accounted for. Charles G. Lelan'J, the original "Hans Breitmann," now resident in London is nbout to publish a new volume of poems of liis own besides a translation of the humorous poems of Scheffel, under the title " Gaudeamus." Great interest is taken in England in ballad literature. A society has been established iv London to collect and publish those that have been sung. It promises to give at an early day the collection made by Pepys, now in the library of Magdalen College. An lowa gentleman who was involved iv domestic troubles met with a genuine " Job's comforter " the other morning. Meeting an old friend, who was a widower, he related his troubles to hiai, aud told him that he expected to be broken up, as liis wife had commenced a suit against him for the sum of three thousand dollars alimony. " Well," said the widower. "I'll wait and see how she comes out, and if she succeeds I'll go for her." Russia presents some excellent ideas to the civilised world. She leaches her soldiers to build railways, as well as to destroy them — making railway construction a specific branch of her regular military education. In 1869 a number of troops were sent to the different railroads for instruction, with a view to the ulterior formation of companies capable of building, destroying, or managing railroads in time of war. During the coming evolutions these men will lay down rails to connect the Peterhoff and Warsaw lines. The distance is a little over five miles, aud the work must be completed in ten days. What does all this training raean ?