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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 31, 5 February 1873, Page 4

■I'll- iii i.. ii .—,.,..,, ..,. ■ ....... .i.n„T-*q?--*-Twenty-nine of tbe present Cabinet Ministers in Europe are Freemasons. Ann Campbell, a dairy maid of Cornwall, CaDado, died at the tender age of 131 years recently. A Lady in Bute county writes to the Sacramento Union : — " I have raised this season a crop of corn, which measured sixteen feet in height and bore from two to three ears to tbe stalk, without any help but my horse and my own bands. As an indication of the amount of business now being done in Paris, the Figaro states that the large establishment known as "Les Magasins dv Louvre," sold in one day lately more than £23,000 of goods, and this is only one of a dozen other such monster houses flourishing there. The New York Post, in adverting to tbe catalogue of crime in that city, says : — " Sunday was celebrated in a strictly metropolitan manner — three men shot, one man brained wilh a paving-stone, five men stabbed, two men knocked over with a slug shot, and one man missing, Sensible.— ln Arkansas, a popular man was eentenced to behangeu; but all the carpenters in the neighborhood refused to build the scaffold. As the condemned man was himself a carpenter by trade, the sheriff tried to induce him to put up a gallows. But he stedfastly declared he'd be banged if he did. A Pennsylvanian Mechanic has invented a most ingenious rat-- trap. Ia it, at the rear of the bait, is placed a small lookiDg-glass, und a rat foraging about for food, looking in, sees his own image, and thinks it is another rat coming from the opposite direction to seize the bait This is too much for rat nature (which in its selfishness is close akin to human nature) and the deluded animal rushes in to deprive tbe other of the bait, and is itself caught ! The man who invented this trap is 8 genius, but he does not tell how the rat sees the looking-glass at night; possibly the trap has a light inside. Fined for being Robbed.— The Birmingham Post says tbat a man named Jackson has acquired at Sheffield unpleasant esperience of the working of the new Licensing Act. While in a half-drunken condition, Jackson met with some women whom he treated to gin, x and one of whom he afterwards charged with baviDg robbed him of £37. He was druok when he preferred the charge at the station, and the womao, when apprehended shortly afterwards, said she knew nothiDg of the robbery. The stipendiary declined to convict or to commit for trial upon the oath of a drunken man, and he astonished the prosecutor by ordering him to stand forward to answer a charge of being druok in a public place. He pleaded that he was not " fresh." The stipendiary delivered to the following instructive address: — "I shall fine you 10s and costs for being drunk in a public place. I believe that you were robbed, and it is because I believe you were robbed thati impose this fine. lam only sorry I cannot impose a heavier penalty. It is an intolerable nuisance that men with large sums of money in their pockets should get drunk and support a class of thieves in the town who* are rolling in wealth, and who are enabled to profit better by thieving than they could by honest labor. A man who allows himself to be^robbecj in the way you liave done is a publio nuisance."