ONE THING AND ANOTHER.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 411, 13 July 1880, Page 3

O NE THING AND ANOTHER.

(Collated ' from our Exchanges.) i ",.- :i A;niftn stabbed another;withia pair ofj scissors recently jin Brooklyn. It isi ajways interrupt fa J (person! who is writing editorials..,,] L i ;- U is',,prtibiibly;, not' generally,; known; that the human, j.awT can 'jeasily be dislocated, by an exaggerated yawlkJ Such,; however* is.;the fact,,and there,-atft manyj cases in which this awkward accident is! the invariable of a.'yawning fit,; the consequence being that the yawiier remains speechless with.his or jipij.tiiouthf iuimdyeably fixed Avide , open, until the! dislocation can be reduced, It niay: readily be perceived how' tho knowledge of this fact might be'used to "the disadvantage of a too-gairulous inteilocutor by a wearied and unscrupulous listener. It is painful to liave to relate that this mean advantage is habitually taken by a gentleman ■ who resides not a hundred miles from Wellington, and whose wife is

gifted with • eloquence nnd fluency of diction . beyond' the.\- appreciation of her wicked spouse. Unluckily for her she is subject to this dislocation of the jaw alter yawning, and the fiendish device adopted by her husband is, when she enters upon a course of impassioned oratory, to be seized with a persistent attack of simulated gaping , . The sympathetic influence infallibly ere long compels the lady orator to follow suit, with the inevitable result that she is in a moment rendered speechless and helpless, compelled to wait with mouth open to its widest stretch, a mark for the derision of her unfeeling lord until he chooses to assist lipi\ This he is not always in a hurry to do, preferring to enjoy while he may the peace and quiet thus vouchsafed to him. Such conduct cannot he too sovoruly, reprobated, and

we earnestly hope that-it will not be imitated.—^Wellington Post. ..?; ■'..:: >■■ The fictions- of the newspaper press (writes the author of the chatty London talk in the Argu?) s>ro rlj'aper th-n , those of the'thf!' vyoluine sortj A. <tiiporter (Mr A , ) Vas'suiirnoni'd last wek -, before a magistrate for a.illuu,' , a "gooi! poisoning case" to anotV\r reporter (Mr B) for sixpence. Th" *otual committed was the obtaining Hi* , money under false pretencw, iunsmuch as the i pofi*niig**cas| whit ( ,che o'ftlfe eloly being a\vork"of vie itnagination only makes this more surprising. Mr 8., of all β^snttfhlv* , the least right to complain, for he sent the poisoning case—a charming account of an Mlest details—to isoMeee thaa eleven 1 iiewepapers. It ie tree o»ly two of them took th* bait, bat what a must have made upon that' sixpence. Mr A.'c defence was not the leaet attractive part of this ißtweeti«g_affMr. He; pleaded guilty to eupplying B. wirti a false report, bat declared he didn't, do so ,to gpthieehcpejicf, t|i»the ¥Hgls ..,»Altogether iCie*'a« very pretty page. o«t o< the bi«t(*y.. of haraan eatare :;$ 'rfHsi&li reference to ike reports o£ inqaente;— " Miwiry: ef- **«<»*Nf ," W^ffl'fy tives,"" " A'djotirneieift of r k<3*est ' «viid J intfi>;s« excitement," aad none of it true ?; aad all for ekpwice 1 Thiik of that. Boiae few d*y« ago tfee coevereation , between severaJ gentlemen »t an hotel, tamed upon what carious kinds of etake*; that used played for at games of cards sot*w few years ago. <p*e? gentler; man who iwte preseet-—a ! ettfveyor—related that how on ope*pccseion ; ;]fhen; at work on the arid the camp pitched some distance away ,fjrojfnj fciote|] or fitore—bad Rβ etuclc in n bog and no baccy-— to/recouree ,|to, iSiedlitz powderfi as stakes, these and HoUoway's f hmo »n/tljoe# Tlie^oraiiof conversation over the ;j?ame of } M Poker/ used;to] be ■ aftef this fashion':— ll l'go » blue," followed by, •• I go AVfl^i^ftjJj 6 and the next man would come in withI* 111 yoar B0|;On. relM stat|a Y e iWere gelling in the world now-a-daySj, and apparently ..were,;. to proud to'pla^ftir l "orthodox "nugget, of tobacco, let alone a Siedlite power.