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Cromwell Argus, Volume 1, Issue 50, 26 October 1870, Page 1 (Supplement)

During the fight at Strasbourg hundred of expelled Germans were killed between the two fires. The city was on fire in twenty places, and was pillaged by the mob. The garrison are living on horseflesh. Great demonstrations in London against monarchies. The French people are erasing all signs of Imperialism. Seditious placards have been posted on the walls of Buckingham Palace. The British ironclad "Captain" foundered in the British Channel. 200 lives were lost. Sir George Grey expressed it as his i opinion, in Auckland, that all Europe will The Hamburg schooner Sarina ran into the Manakau for protection against French cruisers. The English are all leaving France. A feeling of vindictiveness prevails in France against the Prussians for outrages on churches. The war is becoming a religious one.

j An American Practical Joke. j A practical joke (says the fiostov Travel?er)was perpetrated on one of our very qnietand much-esteemed merchants, which is too good to lie lost. It appears that the merchant in question, who by the way is well-to-do in the world and is very kind hearted withal, was returning from a drive in the suburbs, and while coming into the city over the mill-dam. he noticed a welldressed young lady wending her way in the same direction on foot. \-\s there'was room in the buggy, and as it seemed too bad to allow a good-looking yonn<v hidv to walk so long a distance, the merchant invited her to ride; and accepting his oiler. the lady seated herself by his side. F] t( had proceeded but a short distance, howaver, when the lady had the misfortune (?) to lose her veil; and, of corrrse. the jrallant merchant stopped his nag and alighted to obtain the piece of female "rli-r eoods." tiveveil when he discovered that the vehicle was rapidly receding from him, and bidding his legs do their duty, he attempted to compete with the speed of his favourite mif. but the effort was a total failure, and the merchant was obliged to " foot it " home, much to his disgust, if not astonishment, at the sudden phase of things, awl he wondered if there was a female horse thief round. While on his way home it transpired that the strange lady had driven into I town, through Charles-street; and when near the Providence railroad station she accosted a young man, on the side walk, where she could put up her horse. The young man, of course, gallantly offered to show the lady the way, but when he got into the vehicle the lady jumped out from the opposite side and disappeared round the nearest corner, to the mute astonishment of the young man. The horse was finally put up, and the owner found his missing animal. Upon inquiry we learn that the young lady bears a «ood reputation, but is fond of a good joke. We should think so.

A circumstance almost matchless in its ironic horror is reported from Annergau. The miracle play, which was to have been repeated every Sunday till September, has been suspended, the representative of our Saviour having been ordered away to battle, Mr Edward Khull, long a respectable printer in Glasgow, was sadly bothered with an apprentice, who neither could nor would be initiated into that portion of grammar which treats of the proper disposition of letters and words. One day he presented such a shockingly inaccurate proof, as made his master, after staring with amazement, take his spectacles from his nose, and give the ill-disposing devil the following receipt :—"My man! just ganghame this night, and tell your mother to boil Fulton and Knight's Dictionary in milk, and take it for supper, as that seems the only way you'll ever get Bpelling put into ye."