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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 38, 14 February 1881, Page 2

Our German friends arc reported to have done a Bbarp thing — they have estnclished a village and given it the name of Sheffield, so that they < A 1 stamp their cutlery "Sheffield" manufacture. Among tbe latest curiosities of advertising are two from au American contemporary. One of tbem, a farmer, who warns the public against harboring bis wife, who has left him at the beginning of summers work, though he has been at the expense of " wintering her;" and in. the other a laundress ia wanted who will he willing to "lake her piy in lessons on tile guitar, and hoard on washing days." Among curious bequests to wives, that of John George, of Lambeth, who died in 1791, is conspicuous for its bitterness. After declaring that " the strength of Samson, the genius of Homer, the prudence of Augustus, the patience of Job, the philosophy of Socrates, the subtlety of Hannibal, the vigilance of Hermogenes, would not suffice to subdue wiC perversity of her character, he bequeathed to his wife JSHfiabeth the sum of one shilling!" Scotch whisky has been administered with coaiplste success to certain small fish in a privat3 aquarium in London. The majority of the fish became sluggish, and after a lingering illness, died. The last few occupants of the tank were seized with the dull symptoms, and in order to try an experiment strictly original, the owners of the creatures took a small earthenware tube, and gave to each fish a few drops of good Scotch whisky neat, They, immediately showed signs of great activity, and swam about in the most natural way, and arc now to all appearances completely cured. A spectacle ballet, entitled "Michael Si.trigoff," is now creating a perfect furore in Paris, and is said to be the most costly thing of the kind ever witnessed. £IS,OOO wn,s spent in mounting it, and before the curtain can be raised a sum of £280 is paid out to the treasury The ballet is performed by about seventy coryphees, distributed among whom there is about sufficient clothing to furnish a scanty covering for one of their uumber. It is this which probably causes thejurore.