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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 50, 27 February 1878, Page 4

Soand investment — Buying a telephone. Vanity ia a strong driok that makss , all the virtues stagger. Eye suppose sol — Old woman: " What a lot o' eyes these tutors have got ! " Old man : " I specs they's extra, so as to look arter tlie Colorado beetle." A Delicate Question. — A solicitor bat, lately been convicted of stealing a coat. How mauy suits have been lost through bad solicitors who are still at larsre ? Abraham Scott, a hawker, has reported to the police at Carterton in the Wellington district tliat he was stuck-up ou Wednesday at 9 p.m., an the road between Carterton and Gladstone, and robbed of £135, a gold watch, gold chain aud locket, and a diamond ring. A co respondent writing to a contemporary says : -To a stranger Inrercargill looks to be a queer place. Some of the streets might be mistaken for grazing paddocks, the grass is so plentiful, The Town Council made a great mistake in discharging the few day labourers, for since that time the streets have got into a very bad state with mud, grass, docks, thistles, &c, &c, quite a disgrace to an important town like this. As the Council means to economical, it need not be surprising to learn that some of our principal streets will be let for grazing purposes next spring and summer. Ebom time to time we see iv Euglish and other papers some racy accounts of the newest phase of modern civilisation which is being developed iv the genus servant-gal. ' We have seldom however read any better than the following, which occurred in Blenheim and for which we can vouch as beiug literally true. A young lady help, we dare not say servant-girl, a recent arrival from the old country, called on a well-known dressmaker, during last week for the purpose of getting a new dress made. The modiste iuquired :•' Will you have a pocket in the front of the dress? " "No indeed," was the re ply» Pockets are too common iv this heie place ; my mistress has got one in her last dress I" A Minnesota puper, the Fargo Times gives an account of a recent visit to Oliver "j)al. rymple, the '* Wheat King of Minnesota," as he is called. Besides his home farm, near St. Paul, he is half-owner, in conjunction with two New York gentleman, of 75,000 acres in the Red River Valley. About 170,000 bushels ot w heat have been raised this year. The yield averages 22 bushels per acre. /«t the time of t c visit nine steam threshers were at work each with a capacity of 10 JO bushels per day. lhe gram is hauled direct] v to the cars, aud sent to New York via Duluth and the lakes Ihe owners intend to break up about 5000 acres a year, uuLil the whole shall be brought under cultivation. This is the second year of the enterprise, and so far the net profits have exceeded 10 dollars per acre in the year. An impression prevails amongst the military men iv France that the rare Russian successes have been effected by gold, which they find a far more efficacious metal in warfare than cold steel, or leaden bullets, or irou shells French strategists insist that the Danube could never have been crossed, the passes in the Balkan ranges could never have been laken, that Kars could never have been surprised, unless the Russians had bribed the Turkish soldiery. Since all men have thenprice in Russia, and corruption is organised in every branch of the public service, they wisely resolved to utilise like conditions which they knew to prevail iv the hostile camp. Strange that the lowest form of meanness, the most degrading form of treachery, should lurk in the ranks, even, it is said, iv the Pasha's tent, beside glowing patriotism, rising hetinies into frenzied fanaticism.