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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 242, 23 October 1879, Page 2

A Madison paper gives a fearful account of woman's perfidy. A young man went to take his girl for a walk, but found that she had not done her milking. With a gallantry that does credit to the Madison young man he volunteered to do the milking for her, while she was making her toilet. After he had got her milking done, had hung the milk stool on the bars, and 9et the pail of milk in the kitchen, washed his hands at the pump I with soft soap and wiped them on the tail of big duster, he discovered that she had gone to a circus with another young man who did not know enough to extract milk from a milk wagon. The deserted young man kicked over the milk pail and went his way a sadder man.— iW ilwaukee Sun. After refusing repeated offers for the purchase of Exeter Hall, the proprietors have at length resolved to sell the building, tbe lease of which has yet a long time to run. The hall has not been a paying property for years; but the leaseholders, who hoped that the religious meetings in May and the letting of the hall for sacred concerts would pay a good interest, clung for a lengthened period to their project. The immediate cause, however, of the disposal of the hall ia the requisition of the Board of Works, who require the owners to improve the facilities for ingress and egress. The outlay on these alterations will amount to some thousands of pounds. Very Natural Philosophy — " Why does lightning so rarely strike twice in the same place ?" asked a Board school teacher of the new boy in the class of natural philosophy. " Ch," said the boy, " because it never needa to 1" This is the way they weigh hogs in Arkansas. They lay a board across the fence, put the pig on one end, and then pile stones on the other end till they exactly balance the hog. Then they " guess "at the weight of the rocks. An African lion hunter contributes the following : — " How to catch lions, The desert is composed of sand and lions. Take a sieve and sift the desert; the lions will remain. These you place in a bag which you carry for the purpose." It is currently reported that Osman Pasha at the present time receives as Minister of War £315 a month ; as commander-in- chief of the 'army another £3 IS a month; as marshal of the palace £450 ; and as com-mander-in-chief of the Guards, £2-25 a month — receiving, therefore, an aggregate monthly wage of £1305. His wife also is paid £90 and each of his two children £27 a month out of the private purse of the Sultan. Moreover, for each of the appointments he holds Osman Pasha receives a certain number of rations daily, and the sale of these brings him in about £360 a month. Altogether, therefore, he receives a regular income of £1800 a month. All this money he can and doe 9 save. He himself lives in the Sultan's palace, while his whole household, wife, children, and serrants, receive three meals a day from the Imperial kitchens, the food being conveyed to Ostnan's konak in a waggon specially constructed for the purpose, and fitted with stoves and other heating apparatus. What is probably the largest oil picture that ha 3 been brought to Sydney is being exhibited at the Post Office Hotel, Yorkstreet. It is a present from the Emperor of Germany to the King of Tonga, and ia said to be worth £2000. It is sixteen teet high and nearly as broad, and will require a house of Brobdignagian proportions for its proper display. A very handsome gilt frame, at least fourteen inches deep and embossed with oak leaves and the German eagle, surrounds the canvas and gives the picture a majestic appearance. Only two principal figures are represented, that of the Emperor William when he was Prince Regent, and that of a white charger on which the prince is seated. In the background on the right are some members of the Prince'a military staff, and on the left a number of cavalry soldiers in review order. It is said that the painting, which is dated 1857, is an original, by Emma Gaggiotto Richards."—" S. M. Herald." Great Grimaby, which has just been honored by a visit from the Prince of Wales, is a place worth knowing of, especially now when a general election is near at hand. Its burgesses are freemen, and these freemen of Grimsby are great people iv their way, with rights inalienable. They have the franchise for ever. No Act of Parliament could, or rather would, deprive them of that ; and not only has every freeman the vote, but so has tbe happy man who marries the freeman's daughter. The story goes that in one closerun election a marriage was made in hot haste to turn the scale. A bridegroom, whether an impromptu or a long-engaged lover is not known, was brought over from Boston in a coach and four, was married to a Grimsby girl, and voted on the same side the same afternoon. Freemen's children have also the right to free education in the borough schools — more, they are paid to attend. The Wellington correspondent of the Press telegraphed last Friday:— Dreary as the talking against time throughout the week has been, it was lively and interesting compared to the afternoon debate between the eleven lawyers of the House on the validity of the petition against Messrs Wallis and Hurst. It was generally allowed that their friends bad tbe best of it, and that it was neither legal nor reasonable that two members should be included in the same petition, and with only the same security as for one. Respecting the telegram inviting the Home Government to send out six thousand of the unemployed, which telegram was suppressed by the late Government, the Timaru herald says : — " Let it be borne in mind that this correspondence with the Secretary of State was never intended to come to light, and that, but for the change of Ministry, no one in New Zealand would ever have known anything about it. Had it been conducted as it ought to have been, through the Governor, his Excellency would probably have expressed his own views very plainly upon it, and it would have come before Parliament in the ordinary way. But it appears that the Governor himself knew nothing about it. Sir George Grey sent the telegram privately, and took measures to prevent its becoming known. Whilst, on the one hand, he wa3 publicly avowing the deepest sympathy with the working men, and professing the strongest disapproval of immigration as the main cause of industrial distress ; on the other hand he was privately urging tbe Imperial Government to send oat swarms of paupers to create that very distress which he affected to sympathise with. As a fact, a very large number of poor people have come to the colony in consequence of Sir George Grey's telegram. Their arrival has attracted a good deal of attention, and was supposed to be the result merely of the hard times at home, though it was not easily accounted for on that supposition. Now the truth about it ia known."