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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 264, 14 November 1878, Page 2

A phenomenal man has recently turned up in Dublin, Ireland, who beats the man who has the power to make bis heart move to different parts of bis body, as he can make his eyes retire into his head to the depth of three inches, where they remain as long as he wishes, glowing like cbala of fire, and presenting a horrible appearance. In spite of this accomplishment, which might be thought ruinous to the eyes, his sight is splendid. An old Scotch lady had an evening party where a young man was present who was about to leare for an appointment in China. As he was exceedingly extravagant in his conversation about himself, the ofd lady said, when he was leaving : " Tak' quid care o' yoursel', my mon, when ye're awa', for mind ye, they eat puppies in Cheona !" . . From an article on duelling which recently appeared in a contemporary we extract the following : — John Philpot Curran was exceedingly happy on the field aud usually went into " affairs" laughing. He ouce fought St. Ledger. He received his antagonist's fire without flinching, but did not return it. " There was no necessity for me to do so," he said; "I was perfectly certain he would die of fright at the report of his own pistol." On another occasion he went out to meet John Egan, who is described as a great bully and of enormous size. Egan complained of the great disparity in their size, and said, " I could as easily hit a razoredge as him, while he can take me as easily as a turf-stack." Curran, with an air of charming candor, advanced and said, " I wish to take no advantage that may be offered me in your size; therefore I am willing for a section of your body, just the size of mine, to be chalked on you, and every ball that I lodge in you outside of the chalk lines shall count for nothing." It is said that a bag of hops, as largo as the two fists, placed in a grain bin, will kill or drive away every grub or weevil in the bin. The dead can be removed by fanning. In England they are adopting a horseshoe made of cowhide, and known as the Yates shoe. It is made of three thicknesses of cowhide pressed into a steel mould, and then treated with a chemical preparation. It is 1 claimed for it that it lasts longer and weighs only one-fourth as much as the common iron shoe; that it will not cause the hoof to split, nor have the least injurious influence on the 1 foofc. ' - • ' Teach the boys to love the farm, but do not prove hard task masters. Do not make their farm life one of drudgery and toil if you would have their thoughts in after life turn lovingly to their old homes and happy young lives. Teach them that something more than muscle and phisycal endurance i 3 required; that, indeed, agriculture is a science, or art, that should be conducted according to clearly defined laws and well established principles, and successful in proportion to the intelligence that directs it. The Kansas Farmer has a notice of some of the notable farms in Harvey county From it we learn that on the farm of David M'Pheeters, near Peabody, is a young thrifty forest consisting of 25,000 tress of the following varieties: 6500 black walnut, 600 each coffee-bean and oakj 200 each backberry and box elder, the remainder cottomvood. Four miles east of Hallstead, on the farm of Mr Hardaker, are 30,000 forest trees, a large proportion of them six years old. Ainoug them 1000 ailanthus and 500 catalpa: The remainder of the forest trees consist o£ Lombardy poplars, black walnut and cottonwood. On this farm there are also 2500 peach trees which this year produced 7500 bushels of fruit. Z. L. Spare, near this place, has a forest of 25,000 trees and a large jirea in fruit. If these are to be taken as an index of forestry in Kansas, the people of that state would seem to be in a fair way to test the utility of forests jn the settlement of a cauntiy.

; South Austrrlia carried off the first $plome d'fonnettr for wheat, the jury describing: its exhibit a« a " collection magnijique," alsoa gold medal for.fioUf . It sent seven specimens of wheat and flour, and to each a prize has been awarded. Adelaide wheat obtained a gold medal in 1851, and has always fetched the highest .t>rice nt Mark lane A Catliolic p'f?4§£ at Warsaw has .been pent to Siberia for a curious oueiiik: As was his duty, be read the Czar's declaration oi #<*,«* to his flock, and, not being able to speak Kussian, read it in Polish. This was against the law and hence his transportation. At a dinner given by the Earners' Company, at the Albion Tnvcrn, London, Ihc Queen's health wa3 proposed, ns follows :— " Her Majesty the Queen of Great Britain and the Colonies, Protectress of Turkey, Administratrix of Cyprus, and Empress of India." t •-,... India is saut td f'ossess 4" .convenient tree called the " kapas," which ift iii>W atf a tele-graph-post. When cut down, itg bia'nfcaes" partially removed, and stuck in the ground', is readily takes root, thus checking the ravages of the white ants and becoming a living telegraph post.