Sactieæ.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 60, 2 September 1875, Page 7

Sactieæ.

" A little nonsense now aud then, Is relished by tlia wisest men." " But. darkness rests upon her brow-" was what one of the colored, quartette. : sang last night at the Boston Theatre. One of the listeners 'remarked that he . couldn't see' How it could be otherwise. Equal to the occassion — A poor boy ! who had been- on -the. «.- tramp" all • daf, called not long since, in the gloaming, •; [ at the house of a Dumfriesshire farmer, • and thus addressed the farmer's wife — " Mistress',.:cbuldyou oblige me wi' a drink o' watter, for ,1 'm that 'hungry I dinna ken where I'll sleep the niche?" A young lady who had no time to I spare in making garments. for the poor, has been engaged v three weeks embroidering a blanket fdr tier poodle do"-. An American critic says that Gray's ;• poem cannot be understood in Utah as " The rude forefathers of. the ' hamlet" i are not known 'in Utah, but tliere are • often four rude mothers in a family. • A Kingston clergyman, the other . Sunday, used in his sermon the expression, "It isn't worth a (lime ?" and, as s he hung fire_ on the d, half the congregation looked round in a startled , sort of way imagining he rwas going to . say something else. I The precentor in a parish church came to a pause in the middle, of a i verse, and quietly exclaiming, " Betsyj i woman, you are singing the wrang l hymn," composedly resumed . thq ...tune ; as ir* nothing had occurred, ; | IfVyo'u wish for'success in life, make i . perseyera,nce your : bosom friendy, cxi perience your wise councillor, caution . your elder brother, abi" hope your : guardian genius.. -With these you'Tcan ; hardly fail. , .; , . ! The habit of always employed is a i.' great. safeguard throughlife.ras well as ' . : essential to the culture of eyeiry- virtue. i, Yankees are universally allowed to be unexcelled in askings questions, r " But l unite Irish loquacity, with Yankee in- ; , terrogation, and the cup is full. A girl '. of Irish descent, but raired in Veriiiot, - ; was rebukecLby a lady with whom' she i was living for her interminable pro- - {tensity-id a^'questions. 'Closing the i rebuke, the. lady remarked, " You -beat - , the Jews in asking questions." When, true to her nature, the girl rejoined, "Do the Jews -ask many questions.?^.. " What is the meaning of ex. nihila, . . nihil fit '?"■' asked a fiighlander of a . parish minister. " Weel' Donald," 'said i the minister., ( , "1., dinna mind the , literary translation, but jist means that ye canna tak' the breeks aff r a High- • landman." i A man in Michigan procured a divorce from 'his : wife, • intending -t6> • marry another .woman.. The latter, . However, "gbt tired 1 of waiting, and . married 'atiother -man 5 'the day the . divorce, was granted. „ j Then the , "folio w. hesitated whether or not .to make it up with Irs wife'again, and wti c he ; was , hesitating .his wife married another. 7 fellow. This is what would be naturally be called getting left all ar.oun'd. "Do the hounds throw-. of, here : tfo'-ii . day ?" asked an unexperienced.^ider ■■■ (who for the first time had mounted scarlet) of an old Nimrod— :",Yes,"_he- 0 replied, "and the horses too, if T l am io ■ not mistaken/ "r'\r- ~v. -•*, 7 , -.:; : A man in. New; ..YorJk^ rural settlev ment, who has been J an inveterate srnokei* for -20 years, has suddenly and permanently given! up the-practice; He . knocked the ashes of his pipe into a keg of blasting powder.' 'Sam Jon^s fliyed up : -the • Grange Cjoun ty . Now feam was . an enormous eater, and it happened that he was one ■day hauttngva load of /^shook". tg T the„ V* village;' wfieli^'fiis' teanf7 wls^ AAA. stuck in a sand MIL .": f «;^eJ^adid^Sam;.77:-^ . .fret and sc^d-Jais'joxßn^: br^unfejM *his/AJ7|| - . team ; 1 , .. idbwn his dinner \ and ate'it,'-wke*a;'liM^ " ;With->he7-rait7^ ■' ' •-■ • '''■'■ ■•-■: -. ; ' " : ' ■" ' ''-A c '^f?^^^M