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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 226, 22 September 1881, Page 2

We obierve from the Edinburgh Courant that some New Zealanders ware successful in winning prises at the 47th annual drawing I of the Royal Asiociation for ttao Promotion ' of the Fine Arts in Scotland. Mr J. M'Dowel!, of Wellington, w»s fortunate enough to carry off the third prize, " Morn ing," by Mr John Nesbitt, valued at £60, Mr J. Stswirt, of Wellington, won •' Potat'pGathering, Pepermiil," by Mr C. H. Mtckie, valued at £7. Other prizea war* eanied off by Meters A. Milnw, Wanginuif R. H Rnff, Greymoutb; D. Smith, Wanganui, W. F. Rmsoll, Wanganui, and W, H. Turner, Nelson* la the laat 18 years the Southern States of Ainerioo have raised 10,000,000 more bales of ootton thas they did in any fifteen yeara of slavery. A cherry stone onappad from the flngers of a skylarking member of the Twentythird Ragiment at Creed moor a few weeks sines marly killed Lieutenant W. A. Moore. The missils struck him full on the eye. It hit the o»tic nerw, causing paralysis and congestion of the brain. j ■ " You can't both eat your cake and have it."— Ancient Proverb. No I Well theb, how are you going to eat your cake if you don't have it ? It's a mighty good thing for the reputation of the people who build these proverbs that they are dead, and can't be stomped by tough questions. A Porto Rico newspaper, dated July l|3, lays small-pox is raging in Sat! to Domingo to a fearful extent. Parties are daily organizsd to bury the'victima. The Patea Mail gays :— Tha Taranaki people lately superseded their harbor engineer by " the right, man at last," in tha shape of a Mr Rhind, a plain, practical man, wljo brought good credentials from Home of his fitness to superintend the construction of harbor works in concrete. They ar« now trying to get np a public quarrel with the man because he has ordered a few iron casings from Wellington, ! Composition by a little girl of nine years! : The hose is a very nice animal. He h4« four legs, one fastened on each corner, and one face ; two eyes and one body ; two ears andonet«ir. The hoss can run fast. Oh, the hoss is a very nice animal, indeed. Well, when the hoss gets op in the morning, b> don't have to wash his face nor comb h}s hair, and when he goes to bed he don'6 say his prayers. Oh dear, I wiah I was a hoss. j i The most recent sensation in the play line at Monaco, says the London Wtrli happened to a newly-married couple— a Mr aad Mrs Goodlake— who had never been to Mopte Carlo or seen gambling before. Changing ;a £50 note, Mr Goodlake got a run of luek and won £6000, after which be returned to his hotel, packed up, »nd started for Floreude to enjoy his honeymoon at the expense of the Monte Carlo administrator*. ! The Standard it about to make a raid for news in a new direction. Considering the vast interest involved ia affairs In America the London papers give meagre telegram*. The Standard, looking out for fresh fields for enterpriae, has determined to make k splash in America.and there ia keing organised in its behalf in New York a special bureau! , whence will be telegraphed the leading; items of the day's news, and upon occasion we shall have whole columni by cable. ! One of the strangest farms in the world is the gigantic terrapin farm of Mr Dorton, in Alabama, which is stocked at present with twenty thousand head of turtle, that are reared and fattened for the New York market. They eat nothing in winter, and they cau b|e fattened on crabs in summer, at a cost of a dollar each in New York. Yet th«yhave to pay a guinea a for turtle soup in London. A sect that is to eat up Mormonisni is atfnouneed in America. It has been started by Mr J, M Allen. The system is a compound of socialism, communism, and polygamy. Ihere will be no war, iqurder, or capital punishment; "Natore's divine lav $i , will bb the guiding star of the sect, and crime will positively be prohibited. The dress will be a peculiar pattern, being a loose garment continuous from neck to ankle, made Jo two halves, both sexes to wear it alike. Priests, cr«eds, sectarianism, and religions per«ectti. tion to be unknown. Marriages are to be of the "harmonious monoeamio kind,'? baaed on mutuaUfleetlon and adaptation, an! !S#i-S*HR ** *9 .J»T» * B*iT>ti Apartment Tta a** seat daily gafeen "ii audifiSSr