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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 290, 5 December 1872, Page 4

A correspondent at New York says the reports which reached that city with regard to tbe newly-discovered diamond deposits of Arizona are fabulous. A bag of gravel taken hap-kazard and exhibited in New York is said to "swarm" with diamonds, rubies, and sapphires. . while from a ton and a-half of tbe same material were sifted stones of the value of £40,000. The Gout. — Dr. Garnett, a physician who practised in London upwards of 100 years ago, says that he never knew an instance of a man who abstained from intoxi-' eating drink ever having the gout; and he never knew a person who had the gout . who abstained for two years who ever bad it afterwards. Mr. Bennett, a surgeon now living, says: — ",The result of my 37 years practice is the same. I bave never yet met with a single person who had abstained from intoxicating, drink for two years, but was always cured. He may eat and drink what he likes, but if he does not take alcohol, I say, without fear of contradiction, that he never will have gout. The Cleveland (Ohio) Leader says — One of our young citizens who went recently to a farm in the country to seek " health instead of dissipation," returned the other' day a little out of sorts. He had blistered his hands hoeing corn, torn the seat out of a pair of twenty-dollar pants at a picnic, one eye was. blackened from attempting to draw water from an old oaken bucket and a crank, his forehead was frescoed with mosquito bites, a stone bruise gave him the Alexandra limp, he was freckled like the leopard, and had been sun-struck four times. With these exceptions, he had experienced an elegant time. _•--.'