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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 211, 17 September 1879, Page 4

Phosphorescent paper is reported to be one of the latest novelties. Writing done upon it can be read in the dark. The London Tramways Company are now using American mules for their cars on the south side of the Thames. The mules stand 15 to 16 hands high, and are said to work admirably. That debt is regarded as an evidence of respectability is daily becoming more and more accepted as an article of faitb, for it implies that the party owing it might be safely trusted with a given amount of credit. The subjoined statistics shew that Corporations, like individuals, have a tendency to overrun the constable, and that America, like our own colony, can go the pace when necessary. The Princton Review gives the financial condition of 130 principal American cities, from 1866 to 1878. The percentage of increase is— Debt, 200 per cent, taxation, 30 per cent; valuation, 75 per cent; and population, only 33 per cent. The municipal debt of 130 cities, representing a population of only 8,576,294, exceeds in 1876, by over 128,000,000 dollars, the country, town, and lity indebtedness of the entire country in 1870. In six years the indebtedness of these cities had exceeded by over 316,000,000 dollars the bonded and floating indebtedness of all the cities and towns in the United States, which, in IS 7O, according to the census, amounted to 515,819,000 dollars. The Hawkeye gives this good advice to the young man of the period : Remember, son, that the world is older than you are, by several years; that for thousands of years it haa been so full of smarter and better young men than yourself, that their feet stuck out of the dormer windows; that when they died the old world went whirling on, and not one man in ten million went to the funeral or even heard of the death. Be as smart as you can, of course. Know as much as you can without blowing the packing out of your cylinder heads; shed the light of your wisdom abroad in the world, but don't dazzle people with it. And don't imagine a thing is so simple because you say it is. Don't be sorry for yoar father because he knows so much less than you do; remember the reply of Dr Wayland to the student of Brown University who said it was an easy enough thing to make proverbs such as Solomon wrote: " Make a few," tersely replied the old man. And we never heard that the young man made any. Not more than two or. three anyhow. The world has great need of youug men, but no greater need than the young men have of it. Your clothes fit you better than your father's fit him; they cost more money, they are more stylish, your moustache is neater, the cut of yonr hair is better, and you are prettier, oh, far prettier than " pa." But, young man, the old gentleman gets the bisrgest salary, and his homely, scrambling signature on the business end of a check will drain more money out of the bank in five minutes, than you could get out with a ream of paper and copper plate signature in six months. Young men are useful, son, and they are ornamental, and we all love them, and we couldn't engineer a picnic successfully without them. But they are no novelties, son. Oh, no, nothing of the kind. They have been here before. Don't be so modest as to shut yourself clear out, but don't be so fresh that you will have to be put away in the cool to keep from spoiling. Don't be afraid that your merit will not be discovered. People all over the world are hunting for you, and if you are worth finding, they will find you.

It is estimated that the loss sustained by liusaia through the plague is not less than £5,000,000 aterling. "' Clodhopper," speaking to the Auckland people in the Free Lance, remarks:—" Grey promises to take away the equitable liberty of country representation by artfully dwelling on people being the only true basis for representation, a small allowance being made for the sparsely populated conntry districts, and so as to place the country districts into the hands and at the mercy of town mobs. He panders to disaffected Maoris, pensions and pays his loafers, pats Maori murdering marauders, locks up land, subsidizes newspapers to mislead the country, upholds an irresponsible Executive Central Committee to thrust upon electoral districts a lot of penniless, brainless, lack-honesty, pelf-hunt-ing, impudent persons to be elected, on the principle that they will file into the Parliamentary division lobbies upon the call of his fugle-man. Yes! the ballot-box is the country elector's shield, his safe-guard, may it be made right and good use of during this election — the peril is his, the reward hia country's and his country's people."