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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XII, Issue 79, 5 April 1877, Page 4

...Qaattz.oii.the.bram (aays the Aucklnd z fterald) f is not confined to the youog and middle-aged, if we are to judge from 1 the followiug atory related yesterday/ by "."..a . well-known firm .of broKefe. A girl about nine years old w^ awaiting the . opening of the Excn&bgQ yeaterday morning, and on the representative of the firm in question opening his office door, the little girl, stepped ie, and aaid she bad saved £2, and 1 - wished7 to vinvest it in the Red Qdeen. The amused broker completed the^b'asiness of his little customer, and sold £2 worth of Red Queens to the ". fittie Queen "of Scrip Corner. Let lis hope that this virgin venture may result in handsome . dividends as a future imarriage portion to the investor. Another instance of tender years investing and that profitably, occurred to an errand boy of an establishment not a hundred. yards from Wyndham street. He heard one of hia principals say he Had | bought a few Red Queens "on spec." The youngster, anxious to make;, an honest penny, followed auit, and on the next day, proceeding to pay his broker, found a good profit could be fcaade, 7 and, like a cute trader he sold, believing jn^ smalt profits and quick returns. A piece of great good fortune, and at the very nick of time, has happened to the. citizens of the United States, in thjj^discovery of a soap mine iv California;. We cannot imagine anything mpreopportune than this during their great political crisis, and when there is 80-todch 'discussion as to whether their g|ptoraL system will "wash" or not. my" bands dirty or air they clean?" was (you remember your Martin Ghuzzlewit) (be question »^»y;f putby an American to express Hfe, singleness of his moral aims. The answer need be only given one way. Moreover, since ehe prosperity of the «^er minei pf the country is mainly dependent upon this substance, for without* soap bona fide shareholders would be hard to get indeed — a great increase of national wealth should be ; Tbis "naryve" production is described as "marble or parti-colored like Castile soap." Its existence was d .^. co f^ red from detached pieces falling iiito a stream which led from the mine', and .giving to it an appearance of a niaiural lather. So it is possible lhat not only soap but shaving water may *$$ , tinned and exported ready for use.

One comfort ia left to quiet folks — the roar of Kenealy is hushed, or if it is not, nobody listens to it. He has : given up his rooms at Gray's Inn without hia threatened "appeal," he has quarrelled with hie own Magna : Chatta Association, he has broken With ; his beloved Onelow, and nobody is moved when he anuaunces that the British nobleman languishing in Dartmoor is growing thin. There is a new ■ governor who knows not Joaeps, and pats him iv the common coveraational cage, with a warder between him and ; his frienda, when they come to condole with him. Mr Carslake's long-winded letter to the papers about the fate of "the Bella" and the new. survivors , that have been discovered, haa fallen quite flat, The game is m^.— English paper. Tbfc following paragraph appears in ; a late San Francisco exchange :— " A new and curious suit has just been commenced against Dr. Loryea, proprietor of the Hammam Baths. It. appears : that about a month ago a 'gentleman : visited the establishment for.the puri pose of taking' a Turkish bath; He : was. an old, soldier,, who, at the battle ,of Gettysburg, received a sabre cut ! across the face whioh had neatly mown off almost his entire hose. A Parisian ; artist, of world-wide renown, had ! restored the gallant Colonel's personal '• beauty by constructing for him a proboscis so natural and so elegantly • fitting that, hia ifcoet intiuia.e ifriends supposed it was real, and that it had grpwn again naturally, during; hia trip to Europe. Unfortunately, however, there waa some rubber and gum iv the j composition of the artificial nasal organ, of jwhjch fyct the. artist had not thought :it necessary to acquaint the Colonel, never auppoeteg: that he would subject |it ..to.. a M tepperature of 184 d.eg. Fahrenheit. However, the officer in question took his bath, and noticed ; nothing peculiar until he came to dresa himßelfand took a look in the glass, when he found that, the extreme heat of the "callidarium" had caused the organ in question, to blister all over, and to bulge on both sides for at least half, an inch. A lt was impossible to detach the structure, /sshioh .is so welded to the actual outside that the two bad grown together, and it will cost lopa dollars in Paris to 'have one ; nose fixed over again, besides the ex- | panae of Tthe trip. The hideous appearance of the poor gentleman can be better imagined than deacribed, and the worst yet remains to be told. He was engaged to a beautiful young lady, who has since gone insane after seeing him in hia altered condition, and all bis aaaociatea avoid him when they meet him in the street. Under theae circumstance she has brought a suit against Dr. Loryea for 75,000 dollars damages done Jo his feelings, 2000 ! dollars for the loss of his bride, and 9000 dollars for the original coat of hia proboscis, trip to Europe, and repairs to ssme.