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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 123, 24 May 1875, Page 2

A gentleman called at the office of this paper (_V. Z. Herald) last evening and stated that he had bagged thirtyfive brace of pheasants in thirty-six hours. The gentleman did not wish his name published, as he informed us he had not taken out a license to shoot, and had, uninvited, shot over a gentleman's land, the gentleman being inJ another part of the province. Our informant stated that the gun he was so successful with was borrowed from a friend, who was out at the time when ■ he obtained it. He regretted to learn that his friend had wanted the gun for his own use. Our informant did not leave any pheasants at this office, but we would suggest to him and other successful sportsmen that a few pheasants left for the patients at the hospiy tai would, be right royally welcomed/ No questions would be asked whether the donors had taken out a license, whose land they had shot over, or whose gun they had borrowed. Mr Justice Danman startled AssizeCourt blackguardism at Warwick by an outburst of judicial indignation. Suppressed tittering reaching his/ears from the gallery whilst a witness wa9 ; reluctantly repeating indelicate language, his lordsbip exclaimed in a tone of astonishment and anger, "Good God, is this a Christian country."/ Having threatened to have one m/n arrested,, who had been laughing /at every indelicate expression, his lordship added — "Let us have decency in Courts of justice. One doas not come to be amused by filth which one is obliged to extract in cases that disgrace/ the country." / Tho Bishop of Carlyle, speaking a« a temperance meeting, questioned tha efficacy of Acts of Parliament to dealV with tbe question of intempeianca. He said Acts of Parliament were not so strong as people imagined. Tbe prosecution for cruelty to hyenas failed because hyenas were not domesticated animals. The law for the protection of woman was so ineffectual that a man could kick a woman almost to death provided she were his wife. He should, however, be well pleased to sco men who kicked their wives treated with an application of that other domestic animal — the cat.

The Ballarat Star, of a recent date, says :— <• M r Ritchie, of Linlithgow Hotel, Warrenheip, on -breaking open a boiled duck's egg the other morning, found a green pea embedded between the white and the yoke of the egg. He accounts for its being there from the fact that his ducks are in the habit of feeding in the garden. The question very naturally arises, bow did the pea get inside the shell ? Speaking of mysteries, we may state that on Monday, while a gentleman in Ballarat was dissecting the breast of a fowl for dinner, he found a black pin firmly embedded in the flesh. It is presumed that the fowl had swallowed the pin, nnd that it bad finally worked its way into the breast of the bird. A disgusting wager is reported to have been made at Leigh, near Warrington. A man wagered that he would bite a toad's head, eat an ounce of twist tobacco, and three large raw potatoes. The amount of tho bet was the price of the tobacco and two gallons of beer, and the man won. The scene was witnessed by a large number of persons in a public-house. The man is a farm-servant. A late revision of the pension list in France show that there are still living 29,050 men who served under Napoleon, A special correspondent got into difficulties recently, while crossing the Republican lines in Spain. He had no passport, but luckily found a bill in his pocke^ from Poole, the tailor— paid, of course, 'in despair, he produced the document, which has, as is weil known, various imperial and royal arms on the headiog. The official was much puzzled ; he asked for the meaning of the Ggures — asked by pantomime, and was answered by pantomime — that they were the correspondent's measurements. j The correspondent then pointed to the penny receipt stamp and signature on it, which was at last considered suffic ient evidence of an official character. Nearly a million of pounds of money is wailing to be claimed at the Bank of England. It has accumulated both instock and dividends. Tbe Science and Art Department is taking steps to extend tbe teaching of cookery io London beyond the walls of the South Kensington Museum, by having lessons given in different parts of the metropolis. 'I he first of these was given recently in Soho, by Misß Fowkc, a sister of tbe late Captain Fovske, the architect of the last Exhibition building, and of various other large public buildings. Miss Fowke'e class numbered thirty or forty young women, and her cookery is described as having been "as satisfactory as ber exposition was lucid."