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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 86, 11 April 1881, Page 4

A recent San Francisco telegram says : — Mr. Parnell, in declining to go to the United States, in accordance with the resolution of the Iriah National Land League, to increase and consolidate the American sympathy for the movement, issues a long address, in whicb he says he considet s it his duty to remain in Ireland, and that the masßes of England and Scotland should be enlightened on the purposes of the League. He writes from Paris, where, in company with O'Kelly, on the 18th instant, he has been busy interviewing French journalists. Ihey had also secured the sympathy of Victor Hugo, and Henri Rochefort for the Land League. This step on Parnell's part has given the greatest dissatisfaction, especially to the Catholic members of his own party and the clergy. Everybody agrees that the French campaign waß a failure, Parnell having enlisted only Eocheforr, the most discredited politician in all France, and Victor Hugo, whose influence is exclusively literary. Parnell capped the climax of his folly by wantonly insulting G-am-betta. He returned to England, and in a'speech'at Clare, King's Country, on'the 21 sb advised the tenants in case they were threatened witb eviction to plough up the land in order to prevent the landlords frora grazing their cattle thereon. This speech was brought up; in the Commons, and a question put whether it was not an incitement to! punishable offences. The eviction alluded to is JLqrd Anolly'a threat to: evict all tenants on his Longford estates, and take iritjlhis own hands about onethird of the entire county. Mr. Par-* neli returned to Paris on the 24-th. Hid'd^parfcureis jeeringly alluded to asi "Parnell's sec6rid flight." Sir W. Hareourfc, in introducing the Ar mi 'Bill -J in the House of Commons contemptuously contrasted Parnell'* conduct with that of Dillon, wbo, he said, " had the courage of his opinion." The Irish members were furious at Harcoutt's sneer. It may not be generally known that! a person on opening a (in boz of matches in werm weather, runs a risk of tbe contents exploding and in all probability burning the holder. That such is the case, however, is exemplified by the following, which we reproduce from Kapunda Herald: — "A lady at Kapunda received her regular supply of goods from tbe grocer's, including amongst otber things, a large tin box of matohes. Bearing in mind a recent accident, she thought she would open these herself, and instead

of holding them in her hands, placed them on tbe drawers, and then opened the lid gently. It was fortunate she had so placed it, for the moment the atmospheric air entered the opened HJ an explosion took place, and the flame roan to the height of about a foot. The burning matches went on the drawers and carpet, and but for the lady's prompt action in throwing tha contents of the wasb&taod jug over them the placa would have taken fire. This should act as a oaution to parsons opening matchbi xes during tt.e preßent hot weather. Had the lady held the box in her handa whilst opening, the fhone-3 would probably have blinded her, and afc least sbe would have been severely burned." The San Francisco Evening Bulletin says the Hindoo thief's mauner ot scaiiiij; walla is very ingenious. It is by means of a hu<;e iizird which he carries with hira in bis nooturn&l rambles. The process io ac follows: — The lizard, which is perhaps a yard io length, with great cluwa and flattened feet, and motion powers like tbose of a fly, is made fast to the dacoit by a toujfh cord lied to its fci 1 . When the dcooit ia pursued, and oomes in his haety flight to a wall, be quickly throws bi« Izard over it, holdiog fast to tbe other end of tbe cord. B? means of its suction powers the lizard fastens himself to tbe wblls on the opposite side, and the thief draws bim* self to the top and jumps lightly down. By choking the lizard it is made to releise its hold, Iv the second year of Edmund Kean's London triumph, an elderly lady, whose sympathy had been excited by his forlorn condition in boyhood, but who had lost sight of him in his wanderings, till his sudden starting into fame astonished the world, was iuduced, on renewing the acquaintance, to pay a visit of some days to him and Mrs. Kean, in Clarges-street. She made no secret of her intention to evince the interest she felt in his welfare by a considerable bequest in her will ; but on accompanying Mrs Kean to the theatre to see Kean perform Luke, she was so appalled by the cold-blooded villiany of the character, that, attributing the skill of the actor to the actual possession of the fiend-like attributes whicli she witnessed, her regard was turfed into suspicion and distrust. She left London next day, and, dying soon afterwards, it appeared that she had altered her testamentary disposition of her property, which had once been made in Kean's favour,} and bequeathed the sum originally destined for him to a distant relative, of whom she knew nothing bu.V by name. ■ i ? ' I - - i ti i i r -i i ■—»