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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 4, 4 January 1877, Page 4

Men who have stood where thousands fell, who have gased unmoved upon the horrors of the battlefield aod the wrecks of the storm, cannot without emotion behold the devastation and mangled ruin which marks the progress of a woman with a scythe. Nature shudder when it sees a woman throw a stone, but when it sees & woman swinging a scythe, it just tries to cover up its head and keep out of sight until the ruin 18 complete. A. farmer the other day, wrote to a New York merchant asking how the former's son was getting along, and where he slept at nights The merchant replied, "He'sleeps io the store in the daytime. I doa't know where he sleeps fit nights. The Academy states that Murad Effendi, the Turkish Charge d'Affairea at Dresdeu, a man well known and much liked in Dresden society, has just brought out a play, written in German, "Mirabeau," which has been acted at Prague with great and, as the German journals assert, well merited success, Sunday school teacher — "Why did Pharoah kill the boy babiea of the Hebrews, and not the girls? Boy — "Please, air, wasn't it because he objected to the Hebrews, and not to the Sbebrews ? Duriog the recent " oocultatton " of Saturn by the Moon, or, in other words, when the Moon passed between Saturn and the Earth, several astronomers, who- were watching the phenomenon with particularly strong telescopes, say they distinctly heard the people of Saturn yelling " Dowd in front!" to the man in the Mood. . A Saratoga girl writes home: — "There are plenty of ma lee hert— -lisping, silly, hair-parted-in-the-middle swells; but 0, toe the sight of a genuine man !" The Jnrdin des Piantes at Paris has recently received a Chinese plant which has not hitherto been seen in Europe. It changes color three times during the day, and naturalists have in consequence termed it Hubiscus mutabilis.