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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 162, 9 July 1881, Page 2

She was What is very rare in these times/ a good servant, and was accordingly highly, thought of by. her- employers. It befel however that this good domestic was smitten with sickness, and the doctor on being called 1 In recommended a glass of iced wine or beer per diem. His diagnosis proved so correct that the domestic pulled round, -but, thinking! that a ihort holiday would do her good, shej applied for leave, giviog her boss her ace. unt j. He said it was quite correct, tut^he should* hare to charge her for the iced drinks supplied iv ber honrs of sickness. The girl referred the case to her papa, who .replied that if her employer persisted in tbe cbarge he! should summons bim for selling drinks with-' outalicense. Tbe gentleman passed on tbis, hut now is very particular not to engage any seryant likely to become an invalid or likely to require "spiritual aid."— "Loaftr in the Street." Ia Paris a man may dma far two pence.! ln tha neighborhood ofthe March* des Innoctnts there is a certain anterprisiug Madam* Robert, who daily feeds some -8.000 workmen, in the open air, yet sheltered from the weather. Her daily bill of fare is cabbage soup, a slice of bonlli (beef), a piece of! bread and a glass of wine. The 6.000 dine,; pay two pence, and are refreshed. So is thei Eva, on hospitable thought intent. Sh*! gtins bne farthing by each customer. Does i she deserv* less for invigorating a hungry! man f — Atlnnauvt. .... ' j "Men often jump at conclusions," says, the proverb. So do dogs. : We sitw .a dogi jamp at the conclusion of a cat, which was j sticking throngh the epening of a, partly-; olotsddoor, and' it made more disturbance; than a church scandal; ' | The Irish Land League In America, itis said, sent £60,000 to Ireland in one weckj recently Singularly enough, contributions j to the Lesgae -from -Ireland have fallan almost to notbiDg. ;