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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 195, 17 August 1881, Page 3

Have you read the new version ?— Boston Post. Yes. Have you read the old one ? Philadelphia News. The Good Templars, at Christchurch under the leadership of their District j Executive, are going to try their political j strength at the next general election. They number 350, a sufficient number to decide a contested election. The force exerted by the discharge of heavy guvs is sometimes tremendous! In some recent " experiments at Woolwich it was estimated that the pressure upon the base of the gun at the moment of the explosion was more than sixty tons per square inch. v ! It was in a Detroit temple of justice. The counsel had become quite earnest ia the tria! of a cause, when one of them told the other that be had no brainß. To this the latter retorted that the other connsel had no brains and both counsel appealed to his Honor to Bay which wbs right. To this appeal his Honor, with a facetious twist in the corner of hia mouth, replied that he did not wish to cm radict either of the counsel, as "both might be right," and he requeated them both to proceed with the trial. Professor J. W. Price of the Atlanta University is & full-blooded negro. He lately returned from a visit to Virginia with a handsome yoang white wife. After a few days the brids left him and took refuge with a neighbor. She said she had no recollection of marrying Price, or of coming with him to Atlanta; that fhe was Isabella Hill, the possessor of 75,000dol; that miscegenation was utterly repugnant to her, and she could only bave taken a black husband wbiie temporarily insane. Price maintains that she is ao octoroon, but says that he has no desire to hold her to the marriage against her will, snl now has no doubt of her occasional insanity. A writer in the Co-operative News says : — " I am in favor of a society building and owning houses for its members, and letting them on real co-operative terms. Why should not the alternative be given to a member of renting his house and paying just the same monthly instalments as if he were purchasing it in a building society, with this difference-that at the end of ten or twelve or fourteen years he should find him- , l f c P° ssessor °* shares in the society equal to the value of a house, instead of being saddled Wl th what my become a Siam wh.te elephant on his hands ? Thus all the members would own all the houses and 'fixi-y of tenure' could te granted to a member fo long as ho lef t hisaccumul ateel shares unknown. If you want to see the advantages arising from the houses beii. K built and held by the society instead of by individuals, take a trip up to London next summer, and I will take you round to soo the pretty villiages of the Artisans Dwelling Company, where the cottages are clothed with creepers and embellished with charm ing front gardens full of flowers, and the streets are lined with trees. You have nothing like it in Lanca-hire or Yorkshire that I know of, in spito of the working for long years past of your admirable huil:ing societies which only lend money on mortgage.