VARIETIES.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 114, 16 January 1872, Page 6

VARIETIES.

—• — llj An officer and a lawyer talking of a disastrous K * jittle, the former was lamenting the number oi )rave soldiers who fell on the occasion, when the 5 awyer observed, that "those who live by the js iv/ord must expect to die by the sword." • " By 63 t similar rule," answered the officer, " those ™ ,vho live by the law must expect to die by the , aw." » A lisping mother, who had presented her in"ant at the baptismal foit for christening, on ocing asked by the eleigymn, " What name?" responded in a whisper, " Liuhy, thir ;" wh.u to the horror of the whole ;ongrogation and the consternation of the inothe:, he christened the baity—Lucifer. " Fanny, don't you think Mr Bond is a hand* siune min ?"—" Oh, no, 1 cut't endure him."— " Weil, he's fortunate, at all events ; an old aunt of his has just, died ami left km fifty thousand pounds."—•' Indeed !is it true? Well mow 1 come to rec illeet, there is a certain noble air a'> mfc him, and he has a tine eye— that can't be demo I." The ceremony of tying the knot is very much slnplirij I in the Koosier State, as the following scene will show : —" What is your name, sir?"'— " Matty."—" What is your name, miss ?" '• Polly."—" Matty, do you lovo Polly ?"— il No mistake." —" Pvdly, do von love Matty?' '• Well, I reckon."—" Well then," " I prononnc? you man au.l wife, All the days of your lit'.'." Recently two gentlemen driving along in a wagonette were sirukjng, when a spark f tiling from one of their cigars set tire to ajme straw at tiie bottom. The flames soon drove them from their seats ; and, while they were busy I extinguishing the lire a countryman, who had J bjun tor some time following them on horseback, W alighted to assist them. " 1 have been wateh-J ing the smoke for some time," said he. " Why,R[ then, did you not give us notice?" asked the* travellers. " Well," responded the man, " there I. are ad many new-fangled notions now-a-days, IV thought you were going by steam." We clip the following from the Saturday Re-m view : —ln Holland the wages of a skilled artisan I in the larger towns seldom exceed sixteen sliil- J lings a week ; in the country they are much less I lie rarely tastes meat. His breakfast is a | sandwich of bread and butttr—a thin slice ofl black bread between two thicker pieces of brown I bread—with a cup of coffee. He dines off a inessß of vegetables soaked in dripping, or perhaps a"| bit of fish, followed by a cup of tea. His work-1 ing day consists of twelve hours. At Hamburr 1 j an iron-shipbuilder of the lirst-ckass earns eigh-1 teen shillings a week, working ten hours a day ; othir craftsmen work, eleven hours a day for a similar sum. In Prussia, two shillings and six- ; j pence a day is comparatively a high wage, and l the average is rather under than over two sliilj lings. Throughout nearly the whole of Prussia, j journeymen and apprentices work regularly in ' the summer time from live iu the morning till I seven or later at night, with half-an-hour or an! hour for dinner. The Belgian workman sub- | sists mainly on bread and lard, green or dry i vegetables, fresh or salted pork. If ill flourishj ing circuinstnuces, he has meat twice a week. J i Very many have for their entire subsistence no- ! thing but potatoes with a little grease, brown or I black bread, often bad, and for their drink a | tincture of chicory. Wages in Switzerland are I nearly 40 per cent, lower ihau in England, and i working men live on bread and cheese and vegeI tables, with meat seldom more than once a week. A Race of Canadian Giants.—The New I York Herald reports a most singular " find" in ! | Cayuga, Canada West. In digging on the farm jof Daniel Frenderburg, in that township, the workmen found, about live feet below the surface, a pit tilled with gigantic human skeletons, i judged to be at least two hundred in number. ! j The skeletons arc those of men of gigantic '! stature, some of them measuring nine feet, very . i few of them measuring less than seven feet. i Some of the thigh bones were found to be at I I least half a foot longer than those at present l* ■ known, and one of the skulls, being examined, p j completely covered the head of any ordinary _ i person. They were piled in regular layers, each j skeleton having a string of beads placed around r j the neck, and some of them having pipes of stone i : in their jaws. A number of stone axes an... r ! other implements of the same material were i found in this charnel-house. A correspondent "! of the Toronto Telegraph thinks that the site of i i the form where the remains were found was the ! site of a lost city.