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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 294, 10 December 1872, Page 4

Cod Liver Oil, recommended by Professor Black for purity and cleanliness, has been manufactured by Mr lanes, Port Chalmers, who has sent a large quantity to America by the Nebraska. Caution. — Two large parcels of link in the shop of Mr Higgin, chemist and druggist, Hokitika, were set on lire one day last week by a glass vessel in the •window concentrating the rays of the sun upon its inflammable contents. The schoolmasters of Christen ureh not only take heed for the morrow, for like Oliver, they are always asking for more; but they are making provision for a comfortable death and burial. An association has been, formed among the pedagogues of the most cheerful'and enlivening character. It is intituled the Schoolmaster's Burial Association. The promoters are engaged in working out details of the affair, the leading idea of which appears to be that all members, on the death of a schoolmaster, agree to pay to his widow or representative £1, so that supposing 50 members join, on the death of one £$9 would be received. No other expenses are at present contemplated. And should the Board of Education allow the moneys to be paid through the Education Office, so expense would be incurred in collection. The idea originated with Mr W. Morton, of Prebbleton. who, with the few schoolmasters in his immediate neighborhood, is determined to spare no pains to float the association. The members of such a charming association must feel that it will be quite a pleasure to -die; and there will be no wonder expressed by anyone if it be learned that the brotherhood of dominies are competing one with, the other who shall die first. . A Tradesman in Bristol has just made a monster umbrella for an African chief. It is 65ft. in circumference, the lancewood ribs being 9ft. long, and there are 140 yds. of material in it. It is covered with red, blue, and white chintz, and takes two. men to expand it. An Austrian scoundrel has assumed the character of St. Peter with rare success, and the fact suggests that superstition still flourishes to a lamentable exten t. " A peasant woman of a small town," we are told by the Jewish Times, "lately lost her husband, to whom she was fondly attached. Her grief was heartrending, and she refused to' he quieted until one night she heard somebody knock at her window, and, on investigation, a figure, veiled in white, piesented himself, who pretended to be no less a personage than the heavenly doorkeeper, St. Peter. He told the- widow that he came at the request of her husband, who waa in search of a dwelling place in heaven, but could not find one, not having 200 florins, the sum required in payment of - it. The* woman • hesitated to hand him the required money. A few evenings thereafter his holiness again made his appearance, and informed the woman that for the price of 600 florins a house in heaven would be secured for her in advance. She, not , having the money, told the ghost to come again the next 'night, and in the morn ing' she went to the :bank;tp > get the.money. ; ; The bank officers 'suspected some trick, and, questioning^the ,• woman:>reref informed of the f act.' -^rh^gave . ! her the bu t at ithet \^i^j;thn^gaye : ; notice to the, police r autl^rUiepwho caught the ghos^;and as T