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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 104, 20 April 1876, Page 4

: Tbe Japan Mail says that a recently compiled census ol the Japanese Empire makes the population 33,300,675, showing an increase of 189,850 since the last census was taken, three years ago. How is this, Typo ? — 'The whole alphabet is in this one. sentence of forty-eight letters: "John P.Brady gave cue a black walnut box ofequite a small size." See if you can do better than tbat. \ An enormous and wonderful bird has been seen in New Guinea by the explorers.of the newly-dißcovered Baxter in this immense island. The account of it is furnished by Mr. H. Smithurat, who was the engineer of tbe steamer in which the stream was explored. From his journal, printed in the London Daily -News, we take the following description of the bird : — " We often beard the natives speak of a large bird which could fly away with a kangaroo or a large turtle, but I scarcely credited the statement until I saw two of the birds myself. One was seated on the trunk of a large tree, and rose as we approached. The noise caused by the flapping; of its wings resembled the sound of a locomotive pulling a long train very slowly. When it bad flown away we heard another coming, with just the sound of ah approaching goods' (freight) train. I had a good opportunity of observing it, and it appeared to be 16ft. or 18ft; across the wings as it flew ; ' the body dark-brown, the breast white, neck long, and beak long and straight. Our guns had no effect on it. I feel sure I struck it, but it flew on as. unconcernedly as ever." This is a Btrange story, but it appears to be authentic A decided sensation has been created in Chicago. A workman at the office' of the Adams Express Company, noticing a peculiar smell while landing a barrel, was inquisitive enough to insert his finger into a hole in the barrel, and found that it came in contact with the face of a corpse. The head was at once knocked out and the bodies of a beautiful woman! and female infant were; discovered, the woman's body being destitute of all clothing exoept stockings. The bodies were at once- taken to the morgue. The barrel was directed to S. X, Green and Co., lowa. -Later in the day the truckman who took the barrel to the express office was found, and his story is that he received it at a house near the corner of Twenty-fourth avenue and Wabash avenue, one of the most aristocratic portions of Chicago. From all appearances the woman had recently given birth to a child. There were a few marks on the body, but nothing to show how death had ensued. The failure of the Australian preserved meals in the English market ia attributed to smart transactions on the part of Mr. Tallerman. Having obtained a contract for the supply of those meats to the Frency army, he supplied them with preserved Texan in place of: preserved Australian meat. , One of the Melbourne Meat-preserving Companies having heard, of this tran? saction, nnd suspecting that the Texan article was being largely supplied ;in : the same way, instructed their London agent to send them some tins of the Texan meat, and also some tins similar to thoße supplied to the French Government. Oh being- examined, it was then found that, the labels ou the latter tins bore the inscription — " Tallerman's Australian ;Meat," in ; large letters, with the words "Agency Company, limited," in small letters at the foot. When the tins were opened, the birds began, to sing j in other, words— we quote from the Argus — " the meat in the Tallerman tins was found to be of the very poorest description, and although it was not bad to the t laste, it emitted a most isickl.y odour on. being exposed to the air. It was coarse,

stringy, overdone, and floating in a quantity'of filthy-looking soup or gravy, studded with little lumps of tallow. There was not the slightest difference between the tin bearing the Texan Company's label and that having Mr. Tallerman's name affixed." — Mercan~ tile Gazette.