ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 309, 4 July 1879, Page 3

ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

(Collated from our Exchanges.) A tradesman recently told a youth in bis shop to write in large letters on a sheet of paper, "Wanted, a stout lad as Hghtporter. The young scapegrace, .either from ignorance or_design, wrote, "Wanted,.a stout lad as likes porter" Mr Byron (says the Theatre) was inveigled to an amateur pref ormance of " London Assurance" a fortnight ago. The Sir Har cour t_afterthe performance —singled out Mr Byron, and in a thoroughly self-satisfied way enquired of him, "Well and what did you think our London Assurance likes 1 " Instead of the flattering compliments he evidently expected, this was the reply Sir Harconrt received, 'What did I think your London Assurance like? Why,-dike your cockney cheek!" ' -~.• The. law of libel, and the law relating to breach of promise of marrage, have latelycome under general discussion, and have been treated to a dcgroo of abuse which promiECßto lead to radical reforms of them both. .-. - There is a'newhope springing up for the rases of men.' Experiments recently made. upona pigeon (not:a stool pigeon) in Philadelphia showed that not only did the bird live after the greater part of its brain had been removed—which confirms the general experience that in tbe higher types the individual can live without any brain at all— but the bird recoverd its lost intelligence, and a subsequent examination showed that the brain had. actually grown again and filled the brain cavity.- -This well-estab-lished fact- elfeiiid' afford a world of comfort and-hope.: to :a large circle of our mutual friends. ■ - - ; : :-'- A boy,-five years of age, having stolen a oan of '-'milk, his mother took him to task with moral suasion, and wound/up her discourse by exclaiming: "What in the world were you going to do with the milk, anyhow** -Vv"llwars.-goingto ateaba little- dog .to shrink; it," jvas the. crushing reply. ' . ■ The-foilQ.wii'.g bull was perpetrated in'an unpretentious church not a hundred miles fronx Tiriiard a few Sundays ago.. The preacher was speaking of John Bunyanj in prison, »nd-in the course of his sermon said that "no .one t but his blind daughter came to seejiim." _ - - - " .