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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 201, 23 August 1879, Page 4

Baron Rothschild holds a mortgage on the <wnole of Palestine as security for his loan of •200,000,000 francs to the Turkish Government. The people of HeaWsburu, Cah'fornin, have a very stringent way of dealing with the lMrikin or, ns it is called there, " hoodlum " nuisance. The fire-bell is tapped every night at nine o'clock, and aM lads under age who do not at once go home are subject to arrest under tbe city ordinance Thfi Silt I uhe Herald is informed that the Urasshopper* in thnt rcpion are attacked by a deadly enemy whose sting is death. On Frovo beach the grasahopers aro dyine by the bushel A little fly of a singular kind fjets on the iron-clad hy«\ poisons it so that it swells and dies. The sting of the fly is certain death. Considerable disgust and indignation are ?l\i e SfC(l ' in Dublin over tl)e discovery that the Mop. re statue there is made of zinc instead of bronze; but more especially because the raia has got in through a crack in the » cad, and the statue is now half-full of water, a state of existence utterly abhorrent to an Irishman. Dr. Morrell, who sometime* wrote the words for the oratorios of Handel, once took the liberty to suggest to him that the mus>"c was contrary to the passage. Instead of taking the hint, as he ought tc have done the great composer exclaimed, " Vat ! You teach me music? De music is good music. Hang your vorts." « Here," said he, thrumming on the barpiscord— " here are mine Ideas : go and make vorts to them." A Gerr ilan inventor, evidently a sceptic so lar as *ne old adage " nothing like leather " is cc, ncerne( j { proposes to make boots with Btr,ne soles. He mixes with a wnter-proof Slue a suitable quantity of clean quarte sand, which is spread on the thin leather sole em- | ployed as a foundation These quartz soles i are said to be flexible and almost indestructible, while they enable the wearer to walk safely over slippery roads. "Whereto strike an attacking dog" is thus told by Land and Water :—" When you have the good fortune to be nrraed with a ehillelab, do not. says General Hutchison, hit Him across the head and eyes ; bear in mind that the front part of his forelegs is a far more vulnerable and sensitive spot. One or two well-applied blows upon that unprotected place will generally disable the strongest oop." Tb.e Berlin correspondent of the Standard states that there are between 30,000 and 40,000 criminals, one-half of them political offenders and suspected persons, now confined in the prisons of European Russia. Preparations are being made for sending a large number of them to Siberia, and others are to be forwarded to Sagalieu, the island recently taken from the Japanese. During a recent trial in New London a rural juror appealed to the Court to know if the lawyers could not be stopped from bothering the jury P" He had become bewildered in the maze of technicalities and subtleties with which the lawyers had ap. parently mystified the case, and he cried in anguish of spirit, " Them lawyers come here on purpose to bother and confuse us jurors — don't they, judge ?" " I suppose they do, Ddy friend," wearily answered His Honor. Carlos, an Italian gymnast, well-known from his feats with a charged wooden cannon, was lifting it from its stand, during a recent exhibition in Cervia, when it fell, mouth downwards. The gymnast, with the rapidity of lightning, endeavored to break the shock so as to prevent the weapon's exploding, but he was unsuccessful ; the concussion fired the piece, and as the charge could not emerge, the cannon burst. Carlos died almost immediately. The consternation and horror among the spectators at this frightful scene were intense; only one of them was wounded, however, although the splinters of the cannon were driven about in every direction.