BREVITIES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 215, 19 October 1878, Page 5

BREVITIES.

The Japanese have been a nation for thousands of years, and have the oldest written history known ou the face of the globe. Lord Granville says that education snakes women more pedantic and less lovable. I The pulpits and religious papers of Chicago are engaged in 'a crusade against the secular papers which publish: Sunday editions. It is the Monday parjer,; however, which is the product of Sun.day, labour. At Ashford, in Kent, a child has died; from the effects of drinking from i a bottle of benzolihe. As h check upon Chinese-in/'Queeris- , la£nd,an! Act waa passed' limiting the ! number of passengers, and taxtnjjeach o*ne £10. Then tide m'ibers'righfc was raised to £3. Now no Chinaman is to work' on a goldfield untill three yeara after its discovery. A- curious account is reported .-of the ;fredzy df a Beioocbee Sepoy,, at JHyde-, iribati, Scinde, jwho, ; after . shooting Hid! mistress, whom he believed unfaithful, quietly left the barracks in the early morning with 100 rounds of ammunition, and deliberately shot every person he met. He was eventually brought to bay by one of the officers, who shot him with a revolver, but not before he had killed six persons and dangerously wounded four others. At Sheffield a young man, while makingr bricks by^machmery.afc Messrs i Batley/is brUkyar 3, figofc/ the of his right hand trapped. ' He was taken to the infirmary, where lockjaw supervened, and he died. The great bulk of the cotton crop in the Southern States of America is now grown by white labour and upon small farms. Oct. 14 is appointed for the representatives of the Good Templars of the Colonies to meet in Sydney to form a '.! worthy Grand Lodge, for Australia. ! ; j4%j)L;Giuljck] jof NewJJßrunswick, NVL ., an unsophisticated spinster of 39 years, has just recovered £400 from her uncle, Peter Gulick, an old man of 80 years, for breach of promise of marriage. Mr Edwards of San Francisco, has formed an entomological collection of about 60,000 species, comprising more than 200,000 specimens. These include not only all the orders -on the Pacific coasts but nearly or quite -all in -ihe United -States, with; a , Wrge represent tatib'n of orders from all parts of the world/ , 1 Mr J;ohn Macgregor says that "hundreds of girls in London are learning to awim, but many hundreds more would gladly learn if teachers could be had." Some tramps broke into the grand stand on Beverley racecourse. The men were found lying about in the morning in various stages of stupefaction from drink. One man was found dead in the stand, evidently killed by drink. There are 1000 artesian wells in California. Of these 300 are in Sauta Clara Valley. Most of them overflow the- aurfa 1 cc, and the tubes average seven inches in diameter-. The depth of the j - bore, runs from 15Q to 20ft feet