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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 221, 26 October 1878, Page 5

A jeweller at the Paris Exhibition show 3 a necklace which purports to be a mixture of true pearls arid fyTse, ant} challenges r,,njiif"ly to single out the real, Paris has 1477 bakeries, which prepare 700 tons of bread daily. Fancy loves are not subject either to regulation, weight or tons. Prof. Marsh describes a fossil saurian, the bones of which have been found in America, which, he says, must have been at least a hundred feet long. A thigh bone has been found which is over eight feet long. It is said that tl)a ljishop of Dunediu was th.c only • member of the. Bp.ispifial 'I^ench present "at |.be railway statjqn to welcqnqe Lord BeaconaflelU on his return from Congress. There has been sold at the hotel Drouot, an interesting relic — the authenticity of which was however, doubted— of Napoleou the First's llussian campaign. This was the celebrated three-corued hat of the great Emperor. The upset price was £6 sterling, and it was purchased i'or £'(. ' ■ ; 1 J^V \o\e rtsisij^s-ni J.Beds,' on .|'qly a sol]e}tOF qanted. Myep was sentenced, to fifteen. years 1 peual servitude for forging what purported to be the will of an old nmi named Ilatsfield, by which property worth upwards of X 5.0U0 was alienated from the children and left to a second wife. The eldest son discovered the fraud, aud estab*t s f?s ( t if?? i"^t ll tF c i 1 -' J T.hi' j j- B ?y a^ °r a pencil driiugßt'of l tneVjginal will. Ai malm* factiii-er named 'Joy 1 ; and 1 a' 'butcher l named \yeiham, Who attested 't}re fdfgery," were 1 sen^iicei} sdyprall'y to jjttean -&$ sey;<in ypdrs! pennt sprvjtHile." A new definition m of universal suffrage was, according to th^'iV, Z, Tims, given by the lion. Captain Praser in the Council the other night. He said he thought this was was really a knife and fork cuest'pn, T* 1 asked wh;-t he HeMjfii: v^. wpreKn SI wou4 ?#iy' ! taUtihJen Hn (}er^od. AanHooU wltralae to'iucan fl ,v 00( l coai !lU(i a gQoA hat> a good dinner, and enough wages to keep a wprking ni:\n in plenty, at any rate to supply f,hosp necessaries of life whjc.h an active m^n fpiii t ij.e3. \l t'Ojs dejjdition o£ inli7ersa'| suffrage he cot'rect, no woudcr many jieople desire it. A:i American paper received by the last mail, says : — About hal£ the inventions patented of late are farm implements. Amerii can agricultural machiuery in Franco has captured eight out of the eleven prizus offered by the Agricultural Society for exceptional merit, while the United States r,gqcqltv,ra 1 l t]isi;lay in the E^nibiticin fias Eee'n awarded a diploma of honour, and the United States educational exhibit a gold medal . The story comes from Missouri of a farmer there who had wheat cut, threshed, ground, made into griddle cakes and biscuits and baked, alt in four micutes and thirty -seven seconds. I What a wonderful people the Americans are {