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New Zealand Mail, Issue 52, 20 January 1872, Page 9

Hie “New Y T orlc Tribune” mentions that “ a curious memorial of the great fire has been brought from Chicago. Among the ruins of the "Western News Company’s establishment, where an immense stock of periodicals and books was reduced to ashes, there was found a single leaf of a quarto Bible charred around the edges. It contained the first chapter of the Lamentations of Jeremiah, which opens with the following words :— ‘ How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ? how is she become as a widow ? she that was great among the nations and princess among the provinces ! how is she become tributary ? She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks ; among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her.’ And that was the only fragment of literature saved from the News Company's great depot.” A Wanganui paper says:—“We are infoi’med that Titokowaru was seen in town on New Y ear’s Day. The person who supposes he saw the redoubtable Hauhau knew him in 1867, when he visited Putiki, but may have been easily deceived by the likeness two natives, each minus an eye, would naturally present to each other after a great lapse of time. We do not think that Titokowaru would venture his neck in Wanganui, after the recent Kereopa events on the other coast.” Dr Edward Jarvis, the statiscian of the General Life Insurance Company, London, furnishes the folio wingstatement, as showing the death of persons who are intemperate as compared with an equal number of persons of temperate habits. He says that if 100,000 intemperate persons be taken from fifteen to seventy years of age, and an equal number of corresponding age 9, who are not intemperate, thirty-two of the former will die as often as ton of the latter. Out of 100,000 of each, 16,907 of the intemperate will be dead before fifty years of age, but of those who are not intemperate, 4,266 ouly will be dead. From fifty years to sixty, the comparative numbers of deaths will be 55,174 and 33,260. Here (says an American paper) is an argument which should be much more potential than any prohibitory laws to check the suicidal growth of habits whose fatal results are thus mathematically demonstrated.