Page 4 Advertisements Column 1

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 81, 6 April 1874, Page 4

Everyone recollects the boy O'Connor who went with a broken and unloaded j pistol to frighten the Queen into signing a pardon for the Fenian prisoners,' and w^o was sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard labor, together with twenty-five lashes with the cat. i That sentence was never carried out, for he did not receive any flogging, and his term of imprisonment was reduced to eight months, at the expiry of which he received an outfit from the Government, and was sent to Australia. He recently sent three letters in verses to the Queen, and he regards those verses as incomparably better than any that our Laureate ever wrote, and that he is earning & small weekly salary by performing the duties of a clerk in some merchant's office. An Optical Illustration. — A lecturer on optics, in explaining the mechanism of the organ of vision, remarked, " Let any man gaze closely into his wife's eye, and he will see jJiUnaelf looking so exceedingly small that " Here the lecturer's voice was drowned by the shouts of laughter and applause which greeted his scientific remark. •"!..-