Jocular Jottings from Bannockburn.

Cromwell Argus, Volume II, Issue 102, 24 October 1871, Page 7

Jocular Jottings from Bannockburn.

—o — By Moleskiki I hoar from good authority that a considerable number of Fijiana have renounced cannibalism, though they still retain a lurking penohant for it; their food consisting at the present time almost entirely of dough-buys. The publicans of Australia are, I believe, under some severe restrictions touching the natives of that country. That the prohibition has not attained the desired end i 3 evident, it being pretty generally kuown that nearly every aboriginal still ha 3 his gin. I have seen it stated at times tint the French, as a people, are of a more excitable nature than any other nation ; and that the Parisians more particularly are frequently incited to act 3 of frenzy under very slight provocation. Certainly, the inhabitants of Paris have lately been labouring under some derangement or mania ; but the disease is not, a3 some people think, endemial. If I mistake not, the AustL'ian3 su-Fered somewhat similarly in '(3 B. The people of France generally have, in fact, but just recovered from a severe' attack of G-er-m.i.xkt. We have meeting? in this district at times, convened for di.Fereht purpo333 ; they are generally attended with some fun and merriment, and occasionally a little turbulence i 3 displayed. I wa3 present on one occasion, when (on a subject of some importance) some one proposed to take the sense of the meeting, which caused an individual present to remark, " I'd like to see the man that could do that." This inuendo did not convey its suggestiveness to the minds of the audience, which spoke volumes for the pungency of it. A marriage in a mining community i 3 too frequently one of reckles3nes3 on the part of the male, and calculation on the part of the female. How many miners have been living per3onifi3ations, so to speak, of "Mirry in haste, and repent at leisure." A certain lady, who ha 3 been instrumental in addinj to the female population of these Colonies, no doubt made a, judicious selection in the old country ; but I have always had m-/ misgivings of those dear creatures, who, after "coming thro' the Rye," have generally fulfilled their mission by g.)ing on to the diggings, for the purpose of acting as a "ministering angel" at some tavern, and securing the affections and hand of some thriving publican or lucky quartz reefer, who are not long, may be, in arriving at the following conclusion : 1 thought ray love an an£;el once, And in her love did revel ; I think her now—l'll not be harsh— Something that rhymes to revel.