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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 274, 18 November 1872, Page 4

A Man named Flyon, who was sentenced lo be banged for a murder he committed at Oldham, died in Manchester gaol, having literally starved himself to death. Force had been used in order to get him to take food, but without effect. Part of Sardinia is covered by immense clouds of locusts. It is impossible to describe the damage done to corn, vegetables, and vines. Tbe desolation is geueral. Tbe air, tbe fountains, and the rivers are infested, and exhale an abominable smell. The Parliamentary Vote of £4000 for expenses connected with the Thanksgiving Ceremonial in St. Paul's Cathedral for the recovery of the Prince of Wales, . proved insufficient. A supplementary vote of a further sum of £2600 has therefore been required. The construction of the bridge over the Firth of Tay is being actively carried on. Tbe bridge is tp be finished by the end ol 187-4. It will cost £350,000, and will be 10,321 feet in length. When completed, it will be the longest bridge over a constant flow of water in the world. Apropos of the meteoric season, the fflgaro remarks tbat the French peasant women believe these falling stars to be the wandering spirits of children who died unbaptised. " Every year at this time," say tbey, " the spirits apply to be admitted into Paradise. St. Peter admits a few — those for whom plenty of masses have been said — but puts off the others' for another twelve months." Among the many artistic objects that will figure at the forthcoming International Exhibition at Vienna, one of the most interesting will be the model of Solmon's Temple, carved in lime tree wood, from the description of Flavius Josephus. Some idea may be formed of the size of the model when it is stated that it occupies a space of 225 square feet, and that 23 cases will be required to transport it to its destination, the Vienna Exhibition building. According to the Wolverhampton correspondent of the Glasgow Herald, the first impulse of a Staffordshire ironworker, now that he is getting such high wages, appears to be "to drink the same liquor as his master, and to eat the same food. He wants salmon and turkey pullets, duck and green peas. He walks into a little pot-house in the Black Country with the air which a Staffordshire man can assume when iron is up, and asks for a bottle of red port." A Lady was asked by her Biddy about the nature of the next world, and whether j it would be just like this. The lady being, blessed with a happy family of eleven children, has a skeleton in the house in tbe shape of a stocking basket that never gets empty, at whose side she has spent many a weary midnight hour in darning. With this spectacle before her eyes, she replied to the girl, playfully, "I don't think we shall be required to darn. stockirjgs after midnight.*' "Sure, and that's thrue for you, mum; for all the pictures of aDgelsl have ever seen were barefooted." With reference to unwritten works,,Mr E. 'Wl'Fdrster, of the Hants Guardiap, says i — "From my earliest connexion with a" newspaper,, now many years ago, it has been, my practice to compose all leaders from" csise direct without the help of any copy T have followed this plan in many f other ways connected .with newspaper: work; and what it is desirable to coram unicate to the pu bl ic is this fact, that the ; /rate of 'composing ': coincides' : admir-, 7'abiy <witli .Tthei flow of thought ifthat to f urDieh^a good leader, or anything else, it is a great ad vantage to produce it from the he^d -direot, ignoring ihe use of pen and

At Gifford and Clowes* large farm, Oaraaru, they use a sis furrowed plough, drawn by ten 1 oxen; it turns over twentyfive acres per week, at au expense of 2s. 6d. per acre. , A South Carolina Editor offers his paper free, one year, to the man who brings him the largest water-melon of'tbe season. In the meantime, he intends to live on the melons that don't take the prize. A Man, captured on hoard a ship at the Cope of Good Hope on suspicion, had a double-barrelled gun which was found to be charged with 1057 Vaal diamonds, and 1208 more were found concealed in his clothing. A gentleman amateur floriculturist, well known in Wimbledon, has succeeded in raising a purely new species of geranium, and though it may not, perhaps, be thought as valuable as the celebrated black tulip of tulipomania days, yet such is its rarity that he estimates its worth at £1000, and hopes to make at least that sum out of it. The precious plant is of pure white — stem, leaves, and flowers. It looks almost like wax, and is of a bright transparency. Never was anything of the kind heard of before among floriculturists; and no doubt, if the owner is fortunate enough to propagate the species, there will be a great demand for it. — Court Journal. Among the list of distinguished visitors to Paris, Le Figaro annouces the arrival of " Sir Charles Soundy." We are told that " he is 82 years old, and has explored every inch of the New World. In 1837 he was scalped by the Delwaare Indians, but was subsequently cured by a woman of the tribe, and admitted into the Indiao fraternity. Sir Charle3 still bears on his breast the totem of the Dela wares, which is a blue tortoise. He reads without glasses, drinks two bottles of wine at every meal, and possesses a fortune of some fifteen millions. of francs amassed iv the petroleum trade." American Blarney. — In Dr. De Vere's "English of the New World " a noble specimen is given of high-faluting (the word iiself is of uncertain origin) attributed to the great Daniel Websrer : — " Men of Rochester, I am glad to see you and I am glad to see your noble city. Gentlemen, I saw jour falls, which I am told are a hundred and fifty feet high. Gentlemen, Rome bad her Caisar, her Scipio, her Brutus; but Rome, in her proudest day, had never a waterfall a hundred aod s nfty feet hieh. Gentlemen, Greece had her Demosthenes, her Pericles, her Socrates, but' Greece in her palmiest days had never a waterfall a hundred and fifty feet high! Men of Rochester, go on. No people ever lost their liberties who haH a waterfall a hundred and fifty feet high!"