A Frenchman has just been sentenced to eight years' imprisonment, by tbe Assize Court of the Seine, for crying in the streets of Paris, •« Maemabon has betrayed us; Macmahon, calling himself President of the Republic, is a scoundrel and a traitor." Ofl Cape Horn, fifty-six degress south latitude, the days in midwinter aro about nine hours long. The loudest day in London is eixteea hours nnd a half ; at Stockholm, eighteen hours and a half ; at Hamburgh, seventeen hours; at St. Petersburg!), the longest day bas eighteen hours, aud the shortest five; at Tornea, in Finland, the longest day has twenty-one hours aud a half ; at Spitsbergen the louge3t day is three months and a half.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 143, 17 June 1874, Page 2
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