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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 7, 8 January 1875, Page 4

Alderman Jeseop, of Sheffield, has offered to build new premises there as a hospital for women, at a cost of £12,000. The Bengal opium sales for six months have produced "a revenue of upwards of two millions and a-half. One morning lately, a man was found banging from a lamppost in GreamBtreet, Manchester. The Paris Correctional Tribunal has fined a stationer for having exhibited in his shop-windew photographs bearing Imperial and Royal emblems.. A handsome Congregational Church has been opened at East Doreham, Norfolk, on the site of the house in which the poet Cowper spent his declining years. It is called, after the poet, the " Cowper Congregational Church." At one of the London police-courts lately, a Yankee was bound over in £60 to keep the peace for six 'months, for having discharged one of the chambers of a revolver in Coven t Garden Theatre. The revolver was in his pocket ; but the magistrate expressed his belief that the discharge had been accidental. The prisoner, accustomed to carry a revolver while in America, had forgotten to leave it out of his pocket before going to the theatre. "Cut this out — it may save your life," is the heading of a patent medicine puff in numerous country papers A woman who has cut the paragraph out 293 times is still spared to reoord her testimonial aa to the life preserving virtues of the effort. Legitimate Inference. — When you see a bare-headed man following a cow through the front gate, and filling the air with garden implements and profanity, you may know that his cabbage plants have been set out. The Warrnambool Standard saya that an interesting experiment has been tried by Mr William Ru Hedge, illustrating very forcibly "the value of washed wool and greasy wool. "Last year a flock of half bred ewes, consisting of 1563 in all, was 1 divided at random, into two lots, one of 781 being washed, and the other of 782 shorn in the greaie. They were all of the same age and breed, had been similarly treated throughout the previous year, and the shearing was effected within forty-eight hours. Tbe wool went home in the same ship, and was all sold in London on the 10th September last by the same broker, so that no trial could be fairer. The result was that the account sales show a balance of £54 10s 8d in favor of the washed woo). The washed sheep (after deduoting expenses of washing) 8s lid per sheep, as against 7s 9|d a sheep for greasy, showing a clear profit of Is ljd on the washed sheep. The lobs of weight by washing was found to be as nearly as possible oae-third j the lesser charge for freight on greasy wool— O|d instead of o§d— thus by no means compensated for the extra weight ; and the warehouse charges on^he greasy wool were also more in proportion. The experiment

shows how great a loss must be sustained by large ilockowners when they shear in tbe grease." We have heard (says the Medical Press and Circular) of butter made fpom Thames mud, which discovery existed only in the muddled brain of some " knowing.. one;? of V high-class "■ port and sherry, whose composition was as much allied to grape-juice as the moon to green cheese, and which filthy decoction is unfortunately as common in the British market as real grape wine. But what will our readers think of the latest discovery reported in an American contemporary, the Clinic — saw-dust brandy, which a German chemist is said, , upon good authority, to have produced. We are friends to the temperance movement, says the editor, and want it to succeed; but what chance, will it have when n man can take a rip-saw and get drunk with a fence-rail? What is the use of a prohibitory liquor law. if a man is able to get the delirium tremens by drinking tbe legs of his kitchen chairs? You may, shut an inebriate out .of a ,ginshop and keep. him away from taverns; but 'if he can become uproarious on boiled sawdust and dessicated window sillSji any effort at, reform must necessarily be a failure." ■ It will, be; wise, therefore,; if temperance societies will butcher the German chemißt before he goesj any further. '.His recipe ought not to be made publio. He should be stufifed with distilled boards until he perishes with mania a potu, A ! n Adjjoit Fraud at. Liverpool. — The Manchester Examiner .< of a recent date narrates the following:— One of the oldest and best-known firms in the American provisional trade in Liverpool has just been made the victim of Yankee ''smartness." A short time ago a respectable-looking man, who described" himself as sn American in business in New York, called on the firm in question, accompanied by a gentleman well known in Liverpool.' After being introduced, by bis friend, he stated to the head of the firm that he had about £2000 worth of goods in transit from New York,, and exhibited a bill of lading for them, which appeared to be genuine. He also referred to the owners of the ship, and, inquiries being made, of them, they stated that the goods were in the ship, and daily expected. The American gentleman further stated that he was going off to London for about a week, and was in want of £500 to meet current expenses. The money was advanped by the firm on the security of the bills of lading, and the gentleman departed, and has never been heard of since. On the arrival of the vessel at Liverpool a few days afterwards the goods were examined, when the fact that the firm had been unmistakeably " sold " was apparent. The packages were certainly there, and correct aer-tp number, marks, and other particulars/ -but on being opened they were found to contain the most worthless rubbish, not or sufficient value even to cover the freight which the American bad requested the firm to pay Joe him. The gentleman who introduced the Yankee to the firm in the first instance^ states that he was also duped by him,.