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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 164, 11 July 1872, Page 2

At Gaiusborough, two young women, for laughing aloud in church, and " ban?iog the door " as they went out, have been fined £1 each Mr. James Grant, in his new book on the Newspaper Press of London, expresses the belief that the profits of the Loudon Times are £460,000 per aunum. The wife of Mehemet Ali, of Egypt, requires five hundred camels to trauspori her hajrgatio when she goes visiting. What a sensation she would cause in a country village ! Honesty. — A raro piece of honesty, under the circumstances, was exhibited id Auckland a few days a»o A purse, containing £25 was lost, and th< j n advertised for. The person who found it brought t^e purse and contents to the office of the Evening Star. The owner gave the fiuder a couplo of pounds, which were reluctantly accepted, and which the man stated he would not have accepted, but that he was absolutely without a penny. He was also without work. The next • issue of the paper contained a paragraph stating that if the finder of the purse called he would learn of two situations which he could choose from. .

Sevkral Cornish tin miners have been f-ntrajjed '>y the youna King <>f to develop Hits deposits in his dommions. A CORKESPONDEKT, SfiyS tho CouH Journal, recently visited Baron voq Liebig, and had a very interesting conversation of an hour's duration with the veteran, which lio reports very fully. Touching questions of alimentation the correspondent writes: — "And heer ? Is it npcessary lhat people should drink as much bei r as you do in Munich ?" I asked. " Beer," said the Baron, "is heller th»n brandy. Man must have a stimulate of sortie sort. Brandy is a great evil. Wt) find thai, Ihe consumption of hecv is making headway even in the wine districts — for instance, in Stuttgart;. As a nourishment,, heer takes a very subordinate place, not higher, indeed, than potatoes; and we find that in no city 13 theie such an amount of meat consumed as in Munich, where the greatest quantity of beer is also consumed. Beer must have meat or albumen. Before every beer-cellar in Munich you will find a cheese-stand. Why ? Because iu cheese you find that albumen which in boer is lacking. Therefore you see that beer and cheese go together like a law of nature ! But as an article of nourishment beer is very subordinate. Schnapps is a great misfortune, and destroys the power. Through our late war we have won great respect for tohacco tea, coffee, and extract of moat. A physician told me that when tho wounded would take nothing else they have grasped at cigars ; their eyes ■.'listened — they felt a lifting up of the sinking nerves. Tobacco must have its effect. We could not do our wounded, frequently, a greater service than by giciriLr them cigars. And we came to the conclusion that tobacco was invaluable to us. 3 ' These are Baron von Liebig's own \vord3, noted dowu as he spoke to me in German.

Jdle— Tell Pt-rautßire Bill to go to no ! to come to mtj ! Bi ing his draft with him — very coM draft his ! Gizzr — He saya he wants to see vou down stairs in his room about it. Jule — Tell him I haven't got my going-down sfairs slippers on. 1" always keep upstairs if I can. His room's too damp ; I think he's got specimens of the trluciers in it ? Well, why don't you p*O ? For remainder of news see fourth page. '■