VARIETIES.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 115, 23 January 1872, Page 5

VARIETIES.

<>— Woman first tempted man to eat; but lie took to drink himself. A lawyer’s effects are apt to depend upon the number of his causes. Affliction falls upon some as the genial showI ers upon earth’s bosom, to call forth fair flowers from seeds long sterile. Haughty beauties set such a value on themselves, that they don’t rind a purchaser before the market is closed. A Darkey says : “ All men are made of clay ; and like meerschaum-pipes, are more valuable when highly coloured.” Boxes govern the world, —the cartridge-box, the ballot-box, the jury-box, the band-box, anl the pill-box. A tailor’s apprentice, who seemed to be pained a good deal by the cross-leg attitude, was asked I I how he liked tailoring, to which he replied, “Very well; hut I believe 1 shall never be 1 able to stand sitting." > A 8 nacrous Dog. -Mr St. John, in his Wild 1 Sports of the Hightanis, narrates the following ; . —“A shepherd once, to prove the quickness of ] his dog, who was lying before the tire in the house where we were talking, said to me, in the * middle of a sentence concerning something else, ‘ [’in thinking, si' - , the c>w is in the potatoes.’ i Though he pii’-pose'v lail no stress on these . words, and sml tluni in a quiet unconcerned tone of voice, the dor, who appe.are 1 to be, asleep, immediately jumped up, and leapug ; hrough the J open window scramble I up the turf roof of the house, from which he e mid see the pom to field ; ? he then, not soemg her there, ran and looked . into the byre whce she. was standing, and finding that all was right came back to the house. ’ After a short time the shepherd add the same words again, and the dog repe ted his look-out; > but on the false alarm being a third time given, t the dog got up, and wagging his tail, looked his master in the face, with so comical an expression of interrogation, that we could not help laughing aloud at him, on which with a slight 8 I growl he laid himself down in his warm corner r j with an offended air, as if determined not to be ' nude a fool of again,” I °