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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 27, 31 January 1873, Page 4

There is actually a subscription on foot in Bombay to build a pagoda in London for the worship of Vishu and Siva. A French correspondent of an English paper says that there is at Paris a manufactory of damaged china which is marked "N,"and which is sold as part of the Imperial dinner service saved from the ruins of the Tuileries. There is quite a brisk trade done in the business. A Coeeespondent of one of the Manchester papers answers the question why coal is dear. "A day or two ago," he writes, " two gentlemen were going by in a first-class carriage northwards from Manchester. When the train stopped at one of the stations, two colliers got in in their working clothes, begrimed with dirt and coal-dust. When the train stopped again the gentlemen called the guard, who demanded the men's tickets. They immediately produced first-class tickets, and expressed „t heir .intention, r of , jbJLbj, ing;; wbjere 'ihey^#&is^^^ out a bottle of champagne and proceeded to drink it, boasting that they were ':■'. on strike,' and had £1 a day .allowance."

The population of Russia has increased from fourteen millions in 17,72, to seventy-; i seven mill ions' in* 1872. .'""'* A Yankee, on being told that a person j to whom he was introduced was a "self-. ; made man," said he was glad to hear it. On being asked why, he answered, " Why, ; I reckon : i(r 'relieves the Creator from "a pile of responsibility." . A Negro held a cow while a croBS- : eyed man was to knock her" on the head ' with an axe. The negro, observing the [ man's eyes, in some fear inquired, A' You . gwine to hit whar you lpbk ?" j" Yes." "Den," said Cuffee, "hold de cow ypur-: self. I ain't gwine to/let you hit me.*' To Vegetarians— The Cleveland Leader says: " Lovers of celery and lettuce will be pleased to learn that every ; stalk of the former and leaf of the latter contains 19,000,000 healthy parasites to the square inch, which, taken into the human stomach, become tape worms of the friskiest pattern. The poorest family can possess a few of these pets as vegetables grow cheaper." Umbrellas.— lt. is said that the characteristic of the umbrella is its power of changing shapes, You may have a brannew silk one with an ivory or pimento handle at any public gathering, and within three hours it will transform itself into light blue or faded brown cotton, somewhat less in size than a circus tent, with a handle like a telegraph pole and five fractured ribs. Cant in Education.— -Teach a ; child there is harm in everything, however innocent, and so soon as it discovers the cheat it won't see sin in anything. That's the reason deacons' sons seldom turn out well and preachers' daughters are married through a window. Coerced innocence is like an imprisoned lark— open the door and it's off for ever. The bird that roams through the sky and groves unrestrained, knows how to dodge the hawk and protect itself;, but the caged one, the moment it leaves its bars and bolts behind, is pounced upon by the fowler or the vulture. — Halliburton. General Kibkham, the English director of the army of the King of Abyssinia, supplied to the London Daily Telegraph some valuable information respecting the traffic of slaves still carried on between the interior of Africa and the Turkish Empire. He says: The Abyssinian Envoy estimates the number of slaves annually carried off from Africa to the Arab and Turkish markets at 80,000 -to 90,000. These unhappy beings are taken away at ages ranging from seven or eight to sixteen years, older men and women being found more troublesome than valuable to the dealer. , We remember when in the neighborhood of royal Windsor some twenty yearß ago a little anecdote of small worth in connection with Prince Albert, and which caused many a laugh in the Castle circle, The Prince one day called at the farmhouse of one of his tenants; the farmer was not at home, and a lad opened the door and asked the visitor's name. The Prince replied, "Never mind the name, I will call again." " But I must have your name," eaid the lad , "my orders are to take the names of gentlemen who call when the governor's out, or I shall catch it." " Say Prince Albert called," rejoined the Prince. The lad immediately put on a rustic grin, lifted his hand, lodged his thumb upon his nose, extended his fingers towards the Prince, and exclaimed " Hookee ! " New Readings of the Marriage Service. — A Hampshire clergyman reported in a London paper some of the blunders he had heard in the marriage service by that clast of persons who have to pick the words up as best they can from hearing them repeated by others; He said that in his own parish it wai quite the fashion for the man, when giving the ring, to say to the woman, " With my body I thee wash up, and with all my hurdle goods I thee and thou." He said the women were generally better up in .this part of this service than the men. One day, however, a bride startled him by promising, in what she supposed to be in the language of a Prayer-book, to take her husband "to 'aye and to 'old from this day fortni'ttfor bettereighorse for richerer power, in siggerness health, to love cherries and to bay. " What meaning this extraordinary vow conveyed to her own mind the clergyman said it baffled him to conjecture. :