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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 99, 13 April 1876, Page 4

>- , *?•*——■■■■ ' —"— — "* ■"■'■■" *■■ '■ | " Whether or " not the Glasgow people spent a merry Christinas," observes the Pall Mall Gazette, "there seems to be little doubt that they have had (if.^conviviality is -symptomatic ~of .bUssjfa'happy New Year. Three men, j* the worse- for idrink,' fell iiuthe Harbor and were ; drowned; .two laborers who were also intoxicated, stumbled into the Forth and Clyde Canal, out oif which tbey were fortunately extricated before life was extinct. The universal merriment pervaded even the nursery, and a child- s.jx years of age, the daughter of a laborer, died from -&n over-dose of whisky.* An old man a'so succumbed tp -the attractions of this fascinating beverage, and peacefully departed this life in a state of intoxication. An Irishman and a yoang woman 'sustained scalp wounds' by falling down a stairway. A' laborer, overcome by drink, fell from a window nnd fractured his skull.. By a tramway accident a woman had her left leg broken*, and a man -received concussion of the brain. Several other street. accidents are also reported, and altogether the delights of the New Year appear to h'nve'&ee'n very ...largely shared in by the citizens of Glasgow." ' The Calcutta correspondent of the Pioneer mentions a feat performed the other day on board one of the ships in harbor, " wonderful/- even in' these days of physical endurance and daring." An old mau-of-warsman -climbed up, and ■by some extraordinary means, without assistance, got upon the mainrojal truck, whioh, interpreted for the benefit of the uninitiated, signifies the button at the top of the mainmast, a height of ahout ; 150 feet. There he stood* upright, although there was not room for both hi« feet, the piece of wood under him being probably not more than six inches in diameter. In this position he: took off and put on again two flannel shirts, unfurled the British ensign, waved it in the breeze, went through the shirt performance , again, and, after another wave of the flag, descended, amid the cheers of his comrades. This feat, was, it is be-

lieved, performed on acoount of "a 1 et made in jest, i bjr one of the officers." If the man bad been killed, tbe officer, it is to be presumed, would have been advised for the future to be more careful of human life in his belting transactions. A novelty at the Centennial Exhibition will be the mammoth grape vine, of Monticello, near Santa Barbara, California. This is to be transported to Philadelphia, and set up there in the same way as it bas stood in its native soil for .over half a century. The body of the -Vine is over 10,000 ft., and it has borne six tons of grapes annually. Eight, feet from tbe ground it branched into 20 large Jlimbs, one of which is 27 inohes in circumference. This limb is the exact size of the body of the Queen's vine at Hampton Court, England, which is the largest and most celebrated growth, in Europe.