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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 155, 30 June 1880, Page 2

Thfe County Carlow election waa remarkable for the extraordinary means taken to secure' it. &ever was an Irish county more thoroughly canvassed, organised, and educated to vote for the Lord Mayor of Dublin and Mr Macfarlane. The winning grace of woman was added to the more energetic influence of the priest, the publican, and the poor-law guardian. Every tenant on Mr Kavanagh's property was canvassed in person by the Lady Mayoress, who, with characteristic devotion, accompanied her husband during his electioneering tour through the country . Prof essor Richell, of the United Stateß, proposes to make a voyage to the North Pole in an aerial machine invented by himself. This machine, a working model of which he has prepared, does hot differ materially from one made by the professor abont two years ago, and exhibited at the Philadelphia Exhibition, where its performances excited wonder and surprise. The professor is sanguine as to the results of his proposed expedition. He believes tbat he can make headway against a wind blowing at the rate of ten miles an hour. Mr Seth Green, superintendent of the New York State Fish Hatchery, states that in the first pond at the hatchery there are 6000 large brook trout that were all captured with the fly in unfrequented streams and lakes of the Adirondack region. These trout, he says, have convinced him that fish have reasoning powers and memory. When they were hooked aud and reeled snowly to the boats they bad time and opportunity to note the form and character of the tackle that made them prisoners. They have never forgotten that. They will follow Mr Green aB he walks about the pond. Let him have a walkiug stick and a fishing rod hidden behind his back. If he reveals the former to the fish, by holding it out over the water, they pay no attention to it. Bat the moment he produces the rod with, its tackle they all scamper off to distant parts of the pond. Lord Beaconsfield has been elected President of the Manchester Conservative Club, in succession to Lord Derby resigned. ) i -