Untitled

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 84, 8 April 1872, Page 4

A Dentist was recently saved from drowning by a laborer, and from the depths of his grateful heart exclaimed : " Noble, brave, gallant man ! how shall I reward you ? Only come to my house, and I will cheerfully pull out every tooth you have got in your head, and not charge you a sixpence." The Musical Jubilee for which Boston is now preparing, is to be held in a building 832 feet long, 422 feet wide, and 172 feet high, and the roof is to be supported by arches springing from the ground on each side and at the ends. The building erected for the musical festival of 1869 was only 500 feet long and 300 feet broad. The immense business of the English railways is illustrated by a single little paragraph of statistics just published. There are 16 railway companies, -which own 8,400 locomotives. One company, the North Eastern, has 935 engines j the Great Western has 825; the Midland, 850; and the London and North Western, 1,591. . . The noble savage seems to have a remarkable proclivity for the shadier side of civilisation. There are two specimens of the race in Melbourne.' One, a Maori, occupies himself in selling cigars, after having gone through a career of duplicity as the medium of a travelling phrenologist ; the i Fijjan is a competitor at swimming matches. ; lam iinciined to think that the simplicity of the Polynesian is very much exaggerated. So soon as you have civilised him to such an extent that he will not eat ; his enemy,, he takes to cheating him.-;-*" Atticus," in the Mel*. hoiirne Leader. .-'] pp" p ■