BULLS FROM ALL LANDS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1849, 24 May 1888, Page 2

BULLS FROM ALL LANDS.

It was a Scotchwoman who said that the butcher of her town only killed half a beast at a time. j It wna a Dntcbm\n who eald that a pig had no njark on his ears exoept a ahort tail. It was a British magistrate who, beiog told by a vagabond that he *?aa not married, responded, ' That's a good thitig for your wife.' ■ It waa en English reporter who stated at a meeting of the Ethnological Soolety, that there were * casts of the skull of an individual at different periods ef adult life, to ahow the changes produced In ten years j' though Doan Swift certainly mentions two skulls preserved In Ireland — one of a person when he waa a boy. and the other of the Bame person when he grew to bo a man. Ie was a Portuguese mnyor who enumerated, among the marks by which the body of a drowned man might be identified when found, ' a marked Impediment m his speech, ' It was a Frenchman who contentedly laying his head upon a large stone jar for a pillow, replied to one who inquired if It was not rather hard, ' Not at a 1, for I have stuffed It with hay.' It waa American lecturer who eolemnly eald one evening. Barents, you may have children ; or ; if not, your daughters may have.'