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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 28, 1 February 1872, Page 4

Somebody having said that a friend of his had " Ohio features," it is suggested that Ohio has only one i, if that's what he means.

The ravages of a green beetle are h<-in2 much felt in ihe Province of Ilawke's Bay. Every evening at dusk the air is alive with myriads of theso insects, a:«d a tree once attacked, is soon stripped of iis foliage. A Correspondent of the New York Herald asserts that Brigham Young's twenty-second wife died a raving maniac because her faithless husband was about to marry again. It is interesting to observe that when adequately provoked the Mormoness can be as jealous as any white woman. The Melbourne Meat-Preserving Company — with a keen eye to the future of the German nayy — hospitably enter, tamed the officers of the German war ship. The Count Yon Strogonoff approved of the meats, and with his officers did them ouly one degree less justice than was aoconlpil the colonial wines, which, as the Yuu Yean pipes were turned off that day, the Meat-Preserving Company handsomely turned on. There are sceptics who doubt whether the banquet will after all in luce an order for pickled tongues from Prince Bismarck. A Lively Journal — A young gentleman named Gum^s undertook to start a paper in Cambria Country, Pennsylvania, a short time ago. He called it the Cambria Milky Way. He said in his r>ro«pprtus that he intended to make the Milky Way lively, spicy, vigorous, fearless, and entertaining; and he did. In the first number he called the editor of the rival paper "a diabolical liar, an unmitigated scoundrel, and a remorseless assassin." He alluded to the mayor in a cheerful paragraph as "a currupt magistrate, whose torments from the remorse which festered in his soul were only surpassed by the physical agony which is always the punishment of the depraved and riotous debauchee." He soothed the feelings of the postmaster with the remark that " the peculations of this official Dick Turpin can be compared to nothing but to the terrific robberies committed in the past by those dastardly Spanish buccaneers whom he so closely resembles in general character." He announced, under the head of " Social Gossip," that a certain young man hud been rejected the evening before by dm lady of his love, and volunteered the information that it was " the wisest thing she could have done under the peculiar circumstances." The r»pxt edition of the paper was uot issued at the regular time. Finally some copies were sent out over the town iv balloons, and they contained these editorial remarks: — "The editor has found it impossible to go out to-day to bunt for news item?, because the mayor, and the editor of the Times, and the postmaster, and Alexander Jones, and a number of other individuals whose names we have not been able to learn, have beeu sitting on the kerbstone and roosting around on the back fence all the morning with shot-guns and other murderous weapons, and looking as if they were in earnest. We give notice here that we have moved the fire-proof safe against the door of our sanctum, and have lined the stairs with spring-guns and insane bullterriers who have not been fed for a week. The privileges of a free press shall not be interfered with wbile we wield a pen or possess a bull-dog." The Milky Way, however, died next day, Mr. Gumbs having slid down the waterspout and taken the early train for Kansas. These out-. rages against editors will have to be stopped, or William Perm will have died foe bis country in vain.