MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 124, 26 March 1872, Page 7

MISCELLANEA.

The Chief-Justice of New Zealand, Fur G. Arncy, has ruled that a final discharge does not entirely release a bankrupt from his debt/.. Creditors may afterwards apply to the Court for an order for the bankrupt to set aside a portion of his income to satisfy the debts contracted prior to insolvency. Matrimonial Exchange.—Our market today has been very steady. Liberal oilers being now very dillicult to obtain, has caused i acceptances to be at a great discount. Kisses j are in great demand, having this past week | met with very favourable returns. Nothing | much doing in maternal frowns, so the timej bargains may now be settled without dirii- | cully. Heavy purses are much inquired for. j Stocks, with small capital, have not once | been sought after. Fly squeezes arc very i brisk. J hushes are very scarce, none having ! been seen in the market for a length of time. : Jealousy is rising considerably. Other things : remain almost the same as before, with the | exception of scandal, which is rather on the ! advance.— Punch. The following description of “a fine old man,” by Mark Twain, is worth reading : “John Wagner, the oldest man in JJullalo—one hundred and four years old— recently walked a mile and a half in two weeks. He is as cheerful and bright as any of these other | old men that charge around so in the newspapers, and in every way as remarkable. | Last November, he walked live blocks in a ra natorm, without any shelter but an 11111- ' brella ; and cast Ids vote for Grant, remarking that he had voted for 47 Presidents,— I which was a lie. His ‘second crop’of rich I brown hair arrived from New York yesterday, and he has a set of new teeth coming from Philadelphia. He is to he maviied next | week to a girl 101 years ol I, who still takes lin washing. They have lie n engaged for 80 j years, but their parents persistently refused their consent until three days ago. John j Vt agner is two years older than the Rhode i Island veteran, and yet lias never tasted a | drop of liquor in his life, —unless you count l whisky.” Midland, the banker and newspaper speculator, who died recently in Paris, and who 1 b unuled the l't 1 1 1 Jon null, v. inch at one time ! had a circulation of nearly half-a-inillion copies, was an enthusiastic believer in the advantages of liberal advertising. One day he I had at his table nearly all the proprietors of toe leading Paris d lilies. They conversed about advertising. Miliand assert, d that the i most worthless articles could lie sold in vast quantities, if liberally advirtisod. Emile de ! Jirardiu, of La iVcw, who was present, took , issue with him on the subject. “ What will ■ you hot,” exclaimed Mil'aud, “ that 1 cannot ; sell in one week H)(),0b0 francs’ worth of the ; most common cabbage seal, under the pre- • j text that it will produce mammoth cabbage* (heads ! All 1 hj ive to do is to advertise it at ‘; once in a wlioie page insertion in the daily • i papers of tins city,” (lirardin replied that ij he would give him a page in his paper for i i nothing, it ho should win his Wager. The i oilier newspaper publishers agreed to do the II same thing. At the expiration of the week, ; 1 they inquired ot MU,and how the cabbage I | seed had flourished. Ho showed them that ; j ho had sold nearly twice as much as he had . I promised, while orders were st/ll pouring in ; , | but said the joke must stop there ; and no ■ j further orders would be fulfilled. “Come tin and Teetotal!”—The Fan ! Francisco A LbVr says :—We are in ■ | receipt of a neatly printul pamphlet entitled '.“ Tie IVetotaller, which .Waits out on its i j career of usefulness “under the auspices” of • j one John ikoh. John begins refreshingly -; thus : —“ Ob, brother ! why will ye. and why | will ye not ! L>! the crystalline liquid ; | diippei.li from the ro.-k, and wasfeth upon ’ : the plain ; —and ye will not. The fiery poison ■ : m-iwih itself in the glass ; —and yo will. O > I miserable blind 1 there is no safely for thee II but in our baud of t a total levs ! Come up ■ j and teetotal I Gome and join thy ibirslv • j spirit unto ours, cun as a drop is -Joined | unto its ocean !” If John means this last as i | an invitation to drop in and take a. drink, he -1 ought to tell us where bis bar is.—Mr l»b>b, as la pliiio]. >ger, you are without a. parallel ; the , j verb “to teetotal” Is the grandest e.oncep- - j Lon of the age. 1 b io,after it- shall be the «j d arvst pleasure, of our existence in visit *1 the public schools, and hear that delicious - j pavl of speech conjugated. Fancy flic, raps j taro of bearing from ike rosy lips of some i j young thing such verbal music as this : “I c! teetotal, you iw total, he tcetotals,” etc., c j through all tue moods and tenses ! Vv o have --lunar La totalled any, Mr Rich, but. yom a ; touching picture of the wad t going to waste ■! on that unappreciative prairie alieets us f.r lj tears. Ye I umv at last why the ocean i. c b ! called “ a waste of wafers ” ; it was christened e j so by a. teetotaller, who grieves because lu hj ] could not drink it all.. John F.lob, —if wc -s had your mouth drawn over a puuin-suoui y - and s ddered water-tight above the edges, wc j should exalt and depress the handle of thal d . useful man line with in waver mg constancy. ii j until your skin should be equal in tension t< d j the lend of a drum. Then we rhoukl ben