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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 254, 25 October 1881, Page 2

At otic oi bis private theatres lately the eccentric (royal word for mad) King of Bavaria threw an empty bottle upon the stage and nearly killed an actress. Tke Hon Lewis Wing field, a vivacious contributor to svveral London periodicals, has beftfc mtsqusraSfng affia hinjitic, ',% ia rßai'd,inseveral English madhouses with the view of exposing tha evils of such places in bit forthcoming story, /' The Haven of Unrest." Kellegher, in the Cork workhouae, complained that his mutton chops were tco fat, and as the doctor did not take steps to reduca the grievance be considered that the doctor's boad wai too big, and sought to reduce it — with a poker. The last of KelJegber, fi ve years 1 pfeaal servitude* Mr Gladatole wili neJtt year &elebfafe his Parliamentary jubilee. Elected for Bfsthttk in December, 1832, he will have served hit 50 years aext December twelve months. Ie has been proposed to celebiate the occasion. " Boycotting " has assumed a n«w form in sofaeypiages in Ireland! Mrs Power Lalor, a lady who bwiis some laiidgiiear Templemore, County Tipperary, having evicted one of her tenants who was five years in. arreai* With his rent, the people of the district have for ssveral Sundays been placing the evicted man in Mrs Power Lalor's pew in the pariah chapel, which she herself built. The parish priest warned? her that, if she presented herself at the pew agaut there would be safe to be bloodshed. She, however, declined to yield to the threat, and presented herself at the pew as usual. The evicted man was also placed in the pew, and but for the interference of the priest there would have been a serious disturbance. Miss Lalor, her daughter, plays the harmonium in the chapel, and the people threatened that if she was present and played a sifagle note oil tlie instrument they would leave the chapel in a body. Miss Lalor, not thinking it that such a scene would be witnessed ill a house of worship, refrained from taking her customary place at the harmonium as leader of the choir which she has been chiefly instrumental in forming in the church. On the following day the people of the district assembled in large numbers on the land and built a house for the evicted tenant and put him in pos session. Next day a detachment of the 64th Regiment, from Templemore, proceeded to the place and pulled down the newly-erected house. The Book of Common Prayer, translated into the language of the Mohawk Indians in 1715, is said to be one of the rarest books in the United States. It was subsequently republished, and a copy of the 1787 edition was recently sold in New York for more than its weight in gold. Some results of the re-organisation of the Army are quite ridiculous, such as that of compelling a number of men accustomed ;to the normal condition of wearing breeches Ito turn out suddenly as kilted Highlanders, lit is rather hard (says a Home paper) on a corpulent -major,- or a competent but thinshanked captain, that he should suddenly .he' compelled to expose his knees to the fresh air at an advanced age, and with the imminent risk of rheumatism. It is true tliat th« officer -gets £50 as compensation to enable him to buy a ;new uniform ; ' but! a middle-aged major is unlikely to be asanxioius to change his uniform as a mere '* suti " might, and is!more likely^to catch cpld v lit will be amusing to see all the pale kneesjof. the converted regiments. The new drafts' will, for a couple of months at all events, he' more calculated to inspire confidence than eonsternntion in a foe. ; >* ] # How did the Duke of Edinburgh manage hia^ courting ? In responding to the. toast jof bis haaith when the fleet was at Cronatadt lately, he had to apologise for being unable to address the meeting in the Russian tongue. la his spousa a cleverer linguist than he, or did they stammer out their etetailvowa in broken French? ; .