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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 276, 2 December 1879, Page 2

A flourishing Parisian art threatens to take root in London. It it an old trick in Paris for extravagant young Women to take their lorers into jewellers' ihopi and to induce these lovers to purchase for them at an immense price articles of jewellery made of paste, the ladies and jeweller* sharing the profits between them. It is now said that a London dresmaker has in her pay certain elegant females, who get men to order handsome dresses from her, which are never sent home. This will probably be accepted as the newest development of the co-operative system. The London Lanctt prescribes an ounce or two of pare West India lime-juice, with sugar, as the best drink for hot weather. The Lancet is right. But unless our memory fails as, he has left out one or two of the ingredients.— Ph Uadelphia Bulletin. They had quite an excitement at the Delaware Water Gap the other day. It seems that an artist who was out in the woods transferring nature to canvas fell asleep, and while he snored a cow came along and licked up the scene as well as the paint on ihe palette. This so enraged the artist that ihe kicked the sow, and the cow returned the compliment. The artist is now travelling on crutches, and 37 babies are sick from drinking milk mixed with all sorts of paints. A heartless scamp in Virginia City, Nev. , has been making two fond lovers ridiculous. The pair were in a railway car ; the lady was young and modest ; the swain wore large cuffs and one arm was carelessly thrqwn along the back of the seat. The scamp sat behind them and surreptitiously and With malice aforethought rubbed some phosphorus matches upon the cuff. There were tunnels on the road at short intervals, and the movements of that cuff, illuminated in the darkness, were witnessed by all the occupants of the car. Yet in every instance, when the train emerged from darkness into light ihe bride looked demure and unconscious and the bridegroom indifferent and somnolent. The watch which the Prince Imperial wore when he was killed, and which is now in the hands of the Zulus, was worn by the first Napoleon through moat of his campaigns, aad afterward to the end of his life. It kept verj indifferent time, but the great Emperor would never wear any other than this, which he purchased at Marseilles when he was but a poor lieutenant of artillery. Napoleon JII wore this watch from the day he was named Prince President until the day of hisdeatU at Chiaelhurst, and it is picturesquely related that in 1870, just as be was about to put himself at the bead of bit troops tbe watch stopped. He wa* superstitious, and this incident served to depress him for days. After his death his widow gave the watch to her son. The idea of being poisoned by cold pie seems too ridiculous to be entertained for one moment (says the European Mail), yet a careful analysis of the body of William Corbett, saloon steward on board the troopship Tamar, shows the deceased to hare died; of choleric diarrhoea, induced , by, .mephitie poisoning, possibly caused, the medical menassert, "by a pigeon pie." Poisonous changes, it appears, take place in cold pies, and especially in those made with game, by simply keeping or laying bf for some time. This fact cannot be too widely known.