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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 12, 13 January 1877, Page 4

When a pickpocket 1 pulls at your . -^atcb,. tell him plainly that you have --,-B^^ij^9/<o;Bpare.\. ';.;■; . '.' ."".-•%".'.. An old traveller tells- a pretty 1 tough story, about being lost in the. woods, with'' his dog, where he could find" nothing lb eat, and bad to cut off the dag'fc- : lailj which he boiled for 'himself, and afterwards gave the dog the, pone! We,;*wpu|d rather borrow £100' than belieVeibat story. -^ "•' Ignoramus," writing to the Times,' from Ambleside, on the Slade case, describes a trick whiob, when commanding at the fort oi. Afilpck, on the Indus, in 1861, he saw practised by an Indian conjurer. On the mess table, on which the Oloth was stilt 6pread, this maai plaoed a rupee at one corner and tbe narratbr's signet ring _' at the ottier. Tben'be repeated a prayer, played on an instrument, and (he ring "with a vibratory motion, keeping time to the musio, moved along the diagonal until it reached the rupee, which it clawed— I'Cffinrdeacribe it by no other word— and brought back to its own corner." The conjurer deoiioed to sell hia secret. If the affair happened just as it is told, it ia surely as likely that the man was what is now called a 'medium*—whatever thai, oaay : be*^— %a thai he had^anymaehanical secret for making . a ring ft danoe and .,' olaw,' without any visible link between bim and it. Hie recitation of Sprayer might either have been done to. impose upon othera, or from his own :7 pVofoiindtf. belief in the of. f otao anrecqgnizad qaaiity io himself .

i A professor was expostulating with a student for his idleness, when tha latter said," It's of no use j I waa oat Oat for a loafer. " "Well," declared lhe professor, surveying the student critically, "whoever cut jou out understood his business." . Ambiguous .—Lord Cardigan shortly before bis death reviewed a famous hussar regiment, aud on making the usual speech , he said, with more emotion than he usually showed, " I am getting bid, gentlemen, aod ia all probability I sbaihnev ( er*,agaia. review tfajs taaguificent regiment this si-_o df the g_atfe." : Oop of-the,, moat, characteristic of. epU^s il "tl_4" oj_> LiUy<^h|te. t|ei cncSeta'r, at Highgate. ft fo _ Wickal md a ball, the later so placed as to say, as plainly as if words said it, "Bowled out." |y ~ i. : -fo Cf ;| j Incidents oharaqtae^ different from affectionate^ leaYetMiogs were bbaejrjppbje on boardTthQi-Jero ygsfterfiay, as several groups oif creditors .were on the lbo£-bui& j/oj.. absconding debtors. The searell for the latter 'afforded, infinite amusement to the pp§|tesorft| JTwo well kn^wa BoEif acqs fwgip e|^i^tap^jq|^eir (fsra^i_^i gfj|-| &: b_r_j_a 0.-gafijbHag' prMlivitie, %&0' Jiad victimise!^ only a fa^ djaya previously" by borrowing various sums bf money. Shortly 'before the vessel hauled off from theL.warfy. tha defaulter jwas found c ani_ favetglad onshore, but iby some manceavrehe eloded his friends, and cpul^not be seen again. When jthe Hera, was ia the sr t teain, a jfhorotigh joyer_ikul u .o : r j thei ! irea__l ifrb-_ item'tb ,;Bf^rn ( waß. made, but without Buebsa_i ;apd jt^e otwo ho tejkeepaf a jratur^jec^ '; to (shore in, a waterman's boat, sadder and [wiser men. The levanter is. said to jhave n_ai.e good his escape th.ough the igoodioffidea .of several females On l?pard, ;who,«. becoming acquainted, -with b^s jJesire fo^ a change of .reaidgpee^ had jmade arrangemiehts tb'secrete him in A Ipart 8f the vessel that ia nsuaUy^na. k'ed ;" t for;[a(yes oniy." : ZN\ Z t Uemlsi •. I^There. seems to be (soa_;e i dQ(ibt:.as -tO; 'who iiM-fie fealheir taa /ortuae eeiid to he.ve U Deen left by a London- citizen jotfotbe nasia Yjdt .Smith oto ;S relative jresiding i l n r this; col,OflS[. i,T|je 7 borough YEz^tress of . the 3rd instant,! jsaysV-^W^ teitrd'ed'; 'tW'o^hfir'diy' ttin |Mr John Sn_itb,"'Cabiaei-_iaker, late of 'Blenheim, where be was foreman to Mr {Falcpp^r,; iW^s-in: ?\\ .probability heir to a sum of £400,000, which had (been bequeathed to liis heirs by, a l gen tlemau -. of • ,the . ; .sapie surii^ia who 'had amassed a .brtune in Londoo aa s i cabinet-maker. The discovery is gaid •to have been made by a legal firm in Melbourne, who wrote to Mr Smith to his old address, in Blenheim, and after [lying some time the letter waa foriwarded to Wellington. A correspondence ensued, and tbe last feature was Uhe despatch of a document by the last |Ringarooma, N containing concise replies jto a number of questions, and aa we ; understand the 'matter, up to fhe last j week end, and to thia day, for 'any. ■thing r we_ know to the contrary, -Mr ' Smith believes himself to be the longjlost heir to / ali i *hia r w,eal.th. •We trust ibis expectations wili be realised. Our !auapicj[ona ; are exoi.ted, however, by % (few lines, in an ezehange.paper^whieh isays under date 29th December:*^ !" The Gfiarrfean {Daaedin)^Btatea that ia mannaiiied Smith, resident at Caver--1 sham, has become heir to a fortune of 1£400,-800'hy r ihe^death l 'bM vE^iido^ 'relative." It is too much to believe i tha| .there .could be two ( socjj- caa^s. _4 ithe time,.sain9 napaos an^- same amoant-;- Both could not be thoidentir jcal Smith,- and yet both 'are "evidently fled to believe they ard the real Simon IPureMi 3^-. ■""'