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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 129, 31 May 1875, Page 2

A Double Difficulty. — Can't (he Chinese be trained to eat grasshopers? ' is a question that egonises one part of the great West; while another is riven with anguish over (ha great inquiry, " Can't tlify (r«in the grnsehopers to ent the Chinese?' — American paper. A Saving Husband. — George, deur, don't, you ihink that it is rather extravagant of you fo eat butter with thut delidousjum ? No, love — economical ! Same piece of bread does for both ! — Punch. Not Out of the Wood— -Recently a French newspaper announced lhat a banker's country house had been robbed in the night, "but fortunately the thieves, in their hurry, had failed to open the second drawer on (he escritoire, in which wa9 n large sum of tneney in bank notes." Two or three days later the editor received the following note : — "Mr. Ediior— l cannot sufficiently thank you for ihe iufoiumtion given in your exoelleut paper . It was in every n-spect exact, as I found on poiug last niyht, for <he 'second time,' to the house of M. Z— - . The notes were ihf-re, and are now in ruy possession.— [No signature.] You will understand my acruples."