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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 85, 9 April 1875, Page 2

"Accidents will happen in the best regulated families," and in accordance with the old saying, the Grey River of a recent date recordß thai Val' Yobb's dummy assistants, "Johnny Trotter," "Mrs Brown," and otheip, who have afforded so much amusement to the residents in town, were seized by the bailiff at the Buit of a former servant of Mr Vose. The suit was brought it. Charleston while Mr Vose was peiforming at Reef ton, and as he could not appear judgment went by defftulf.

Tli« clahn was resisted as being an unjust overcharge, about the merits of , which we know nothing. The consequence was that our old friends " Jnhdny" and othera were gold by auction, and bought in tfy a member of iho company, but tbe price did cot cover the costs cf (he warrant, execution. &c. Swallowing a Leech. — A curious r.ccount comes to us from Sicily, which n tltl b ono 'co the many other inducements to visit that island ut tbe present time. A woman had for a time suffered very piruliar symptoms suggestive of consumption, of which, however, she had no other signs. Further and more careful examination, however, including the use ofilbo laryngoscope, showed a leech firmly adherent by both extremities to the walls of the air passages at their upper portion, and so the difficulty of breathing and speaking, cough, &c, were easily explained. Tbe question now was how to get rid of the intruder; but this whs Dot 60 easily done. At last, howover, by dint of cunning forceps, he was got out, and proved to be a fine large horse leechd The only way in which to account for hie presence was through tbe medium of some lettuces placed near the drinking water. Great Towns of Britain. — The Registrar-G^nerol makes the following estimate. nf the population of the greati (owns of Great Britain in the middleoT ihe year, 1874 -.--London, 3,400,701; Liverpool, 510 640; Glasgow, 508,109; M>*nr:heßter, 355,339; and Salford, 133,058; Birmingham, 360,892; Dublin, 31.4,066; Leeds, 278,798; Sheffield, 261,029; Edinburgh, 211.691; Bristol, 192,8S9;.Bradford, 1*2,056; Newcastle-npon-Tyne, 135,437; Hull, 1^0^96; Portsmouth, 120,436; Brighton (vfiih suburbs), 109,319; Leicester, 106,202; Sutherlnnw", 104,378. The frequeUb tits* of apples, either before or affer meals has a ifloafc healthful effect upon digestion— better eat les3 meat and more fruit. An eminent frrensh physician thinks that the decrease of dyspepsia and bilious affections in Paris is ovs&ng to tbe increased consumption of a pmes, which fruit he maintains is an adnrabie prophylatic and tonic, as well'as j| very nourishing ami easily digested arfticle of food. The Parisians are said* to 'devour .one hundred millions of i apples every wiuter, that is, before tha war. Whether this estimate is true or njoh, nevertheless the French are extravagantly , fond of apples an.l other fruit; A little black girl near Auburn, Alabama, United States, while lately pieopina in a doorway wns covered by myiiads of ants. Tbe bites produced ti fever, of which she died in 48 hours. Australia will make a contribution to" the success of the north polar expedition in the shape of sundry beams of stringy bark, that wood having been found to be the best for resisting the strains aud nips to which vessels caught in the ice are liable, and are being now onployed for that purpose by the Aberdeen ship-builders , /