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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 194, 15 August 1872, Page 4

Mr W. Stephens,. the ablest la>yer in the Victorian parliament, and the AttorneyGeneral of the present Victorian Ministry, in his address to his constituents, advocated a secular system of education. He said he was a religduß man, and once thought that religion should be taught in the common schools, but seeing the numerous sects in Victoria, he had been led to the belief that true religion would be promoted if the . State confined its attention to secular instruction, and to that alone. He and his Bishop (Bishop Perry)- disagreed on this subject, but he hoped to yet get the bishop to support him.— rHis majority over his opponent at the cldseof the poll was j over " 1000. A New Intention :~lt is eiat e( j that Mr. Burrus, of Wisconsin, has issued «.. sche'irie for a railroad from the Atlantic ; to the West, to be built witlTa. gauge. of 30 feet. The road is to run from the East by the most direct line to lake Erie. When it reaches the lake the road is to b/j . built out into- the . water, about 25 it et belowthe surface for some distance, and there end. It is to 'be operated -v/ith a machine which is, even more Waderful than the road, and which willnavigate the Water as welt as traverse the land \ When this amphibious locomotive arrives at the jumpingroff place at, Lake Erie it.ir to ! slide "gracefully into the water, and by slight transposition of its toachrnery become a steamboat. When it has arrived at Monroe it- resumes .its character o~f locomotive, and rolls off another broad, gauge road to Lake Michigan, whence it is to; take water for' "Ghicago.- ; The machine is.to be sufficently, large to \ carry a vessel of 500 tons, so that all necessity for ship's canals will be done away^ with. The inventor expectß to attain a /speed I of 125 miles per hour qn, land and 25 , miles in water.— -New York Albidn; A friend relates,, a little story, which very fairly illustrates the jips and downs of those whoyenture-into stock speculations. Our friend says that one day, a week or two L Binoe 3 "he 'met arpairiter of his' aq^uaintance whom he knew to be r dabbling! in stocks.-:' But the, painter, no ..longer- [wore his paint stained clothes. He. ,-shone.. in k ; ' fieW : broadclbth s^ hnd wore neatly fitted kid gloves.J " Hello! how is this ?,,-eried^oiit| ; friend, Stocks, Stocks!" lanconically replied the painter, as, ,he : strode, along, , , twirling his,, switch of arcane. He had made sor_re : •ojOOO -dollars ia^aifew 'daysby^th^^siidden ! rise r flfj:st9cksf ; and.hab v resolved to ; ;thrbW C: asid^.th^paiu.t^^ out a stock ..ipedulatprir-, A; day prtwo/Since our friend met tfie) same man with a big rpli! of ' ■' wall-paper fundeti his arhi, a'^coarse 0 apron/r '■ reaching from his /chinido^^^^ ' and a big bucket of '.'.paßte^^ in/ his hand.- ■ ,, Hello!'^^cried.Caur,friend in astonißhmefl.t, ■V. how is^ tliis again?? Stocks, 'Stocks!" jis^er^ar^aia^Mt^&lMgh l^ <i job; With his roll of papery an^bbckefc | br^ * ipaste; l;Hejh a d gpha^o^^^^rginia _ yEnfew*ti£Z:;/^