MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume IV, Issue 179, 15 April 1873, Page 7

MISCELLANEA.

4» One of the little pleasantries of the gallery "gods'' at the Dublin Opera Hour-e consists in throwing on the stage a bouquet ti which a piooj of twine is attached. When the prima donna goes to pick up the nosegay it is suddenly drawn up again amid the roar of the "deities." The amusing editor of the Charleston Herald always estimates the rain which falls in his district at a money value, just according to the gold it will wash up from the diggers' heaps of wasbdirt. He says, in a late issue, "Several hundreds of pounds worth of rain fell during Wednesday and Thursday last." The New York Herald quotes a list of the aliases applied by its contemporaries to President Grant and to Mr Greeley during the past six months. The list is a curious one, and certunly deserves rebuke. Here it is '.—Greely: Atheist, Deis!-, com mon liar, Secessionist, Southern sympathiser, God-defter, traitor, Communist, brown bread robber. Grant; Drunkard, loafer, bull-pup, swindler, treasury plunderer, horse jockey, beast, ignoramus, whisky cask. Two ladies in New York were talking about the sparrows and their usefulness in ridding the city of the cancer worms, which used to be such a nuisance. One said the chirping of the sparrows early in the morning, when she wanted to sleep, was as great an evil as the worms : the other disagreed. Just then a gentleman can e in and wag appealed to : " Air A., which do you think the worst—sparrows or worms 1 He immediately answered, " I don't know : I never had sparrows." The Southland News says :—" We have ! to acknowledge the recint of an affecting I soavemr —from, we presume, one of the theatrical levanters—in the shape of a neat ' shillelagh,' weighing something less than fourteen pounds. It cune up from the Bluff as a parcel, addressed, ' Neics Office. Glass, with care.' A 1 ibel attached bore. the following inscription:—'ln re O'Brien, Accept enclosed valuable insthrumint as I security for amount due—or as payment in full. Dr OToole. Stormbird, Ist j March, 1873.' We intend to give it a conj spumous place among the articles of vertu ; that adorn our sanctum." The following, by Josh Billings, is ouly a trifl.' inferior to some passages in Thomson's " Seasons," by which noble poem it was evidently inspired : —" Spring came this year as much as usual. Hail, butuous virgin ! 5000 years old and upward, hale and hearty old gal welcum to New York S'ate and parts adjacent ! Now the birds j j w, now the cattle hoibv, now the pigs ; scream, now the geese warble, now the I kits sigh, and Nature is frisky, while the nobby cockro ich is singing ' Yankee Doodle' ■anil ' (Joming through the rhi.' Now may I lie seen the musketeer, that gray outlined I critter of destiny, solitary and alone, ex- | aiuming his last, years bill, and now bo j heard with the naked oar the coarse shangh.gh bawling in the barn-yard."