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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume IX, Issue 288, 5 December 1874, Page 2

Feloniously stealing one sausage. This is the tremendous offence on whioh three young men were brought up at the Surrey sessions recently for being; concerned in. ..The eldest was only eighteen, and ,'the youngest fifteen^ and what do our readers suppose was the measure of punishment inflicted for this diabolical crime committed in Bermondsey? The eldest (eighteen) was sentence I to nine months' hard labor; the next (seventeen) to fifteen months' hard labor, and three years' police supervision; and the youngest (fifteen) six months' hard labor! In another case a lad of fifteen, charged with stealing two sixpences, was sentenced to s.ven years' penal servitude. If a young person will begin and persevere in learning by heart, eay, four lines of good poetry every day, there will be laid up in the treasure house of memory fourteen hundred and sixty lines in a year. Po, of facts, and various kinds of' information. • All great things are done little by little. Atoms make worlds The greatest fortunes consist of farthings. Life is made up of moments, and a succession of well-sptnt moments make a well-9pent life. When a Portland woman chases her boy with a broom, he runs on a wharf and jumps into the water. When he comes out his face is washed, hia mother does not know him, and he is safe.— Boston Globe. A curious deputation waited upon his Holiness the Pope to congratulate him npon hi. attaining his eighty-third year. ■ The deputation consisted of eighty-three maidens, ranging from one year old. A pretty young Americanes", whose Christain name is Anna, oq receiving a cig«r from a 3 oung man who had not pluck enough to aay he wished to marry her, twirled it playfully beneath her nose, and looking archly at him. popped the question thus :— " iiave Anna?"