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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 50, 27 February 1874, Page 2

Not long since, at a private entertainment, Brot Harte told the following story: — A teamster went courting a girl who was a member of a church,

aud while in her company, being on his very best behaviour, he was careful not to use any language which could shock tbo exceedingly proper ears of his sweetheart. But one day driving up a hill be buret forth in most objurgative stylo to bis animals, never dreaming tbat the object of his affection was standing by the roadsida listening to his profanity. But wheu sho opened upon him the batteries of reproof he knew ehe was thera. But be held hia ground. "Do you call tbat swearing?" asked he. "If you do, I don't know what you'd say if you heard that fellow jtiFt behind me exhort an impenitent mule." People who are fond of music, yet are unable to produce it for themselves will be glad to learn that by a French invention the piano can be perfectly played by simply turning the handle of a macbine constructed on the principle of the American type-setter. The * Sheffield Telegraph ' describes an extraordinary scene in that town. A new sewer was being put down in Thomas-street, and tbe excavation laid open a seam of coal which there crops up nearly to the surface. News of this discovery quickly spread among the humbler residents of the neighborhood, and tbe result was that several hundred women and children put in an appearance with buckets, baskets, and sacks, and all kinds of receptacles, for the collection of the "black diamonds" as they were thrown up by the workmen. The sepat ation of tbe coal from the earth and stonea certainly involved some little trouble, but the crowd was enterprising and patient, and the division of the spoil was conducted with a fair degree of decorum.