MISCELLANEA.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 230, 7 April 1874, Page 7

MISCELLANEA.

v tyfdbwrm Herald has been endeavouring to. make 1 the dry details of the Police Court reports more attractive by strewing them with the flowers of poesy—or, more strictly speaking, rendering them into rhyme. This is a sample : —Larceny.—George Wearn he is a sailor ,b<}Jd, ahdwenAto tafcjfhis left, lipon a doorstep hi a street called Little Flinders west, when up there came a naughty boy, M'Dougall John by name, and from his toes unto his head surveyed that seaman same. That little vnlgar boy took eleven bob and three from out the pocket of that man who used to go to sea, and lied therewith down Flinders-street, alluded to before, until, :by cha"*ce, ; ; be inet T. • Ellis, guardian of the law. That little 1 boy who stole the coin from off the sailor bold, in durance vile, for many days, the civic guards will hold, until some news is heard of him who took what wasn't his'n, when p'raps he'll go to sea himself, or p'raps he'll go to prison.—Sarah Finn was servant in the house of Mrs Lander, from which they say she stole away some clothes, so did remand her. Again, to-day, she-came this-way, fofi-Mi: Calf to. try hei;; slie said she didn't steal the clothes, but she turned out a liar. In durance vile, for full six weeks, now Sarah Finn will languish, while bitter tears will wet her cheeks, and rack her |ipart with anguish. Is this old ? If not, it is neat. It is told bv the Melbourne IJerald. of two members of the New Legislature : " These wiseacresi were arguing in the Parliamentary refreshment room, when the following colloquy ensued :—lst Mem—' You blow about eddirtatibh ! . Why, lulon't believe as how you ever'had two-penn'orth of schooliu' in your about it nor you do auy.wav. Whv, I don't believe you can repeat the Lord's Prayer !'— Ist Mem—' I'm game to bet you a fiver I can, conn now.'—2nd Mem—' Done :—shake the money.'—The cash ■.being, duly posted on either side, the second miMnbev remarked, 'Now, then, Win.'-- Ist, Mem--' I believe in Ood, the Father Almighty*'' maker of heaven; and eartli, and in——'—2nd Mem ' That'll do, you've won the inonov ; but I'm blessed if I thought you knew it.'." - The Central Citv (Odnradoj %<]kter of December 7th, contains tlio followinc' story : —" A gontloirian was walking down Virginia ! Canon the other day. There was no pereep- | tible breeze at the .time. rßi'ddenlv he was ! surprised by a roaring noise behind him—a { noiss ! like that.'; of an -express-'' train when ; crossing a bridge, or passing -.a rooky wall, j Stopping a momont.f<) listen, a whirlwind, ! apn;u-enth- not inure than a yard in diameter, I ami travelling no faster than a spirited walk, I nicked him up, os it were, and waltzed off down itlmroal with him. Its vertical force was ! sufficient to invert the tails of his coat above | his head, notwithstanding the pockets were | loaded with specimens of silver ore, and .at i the same time he was carried along for a hunjdredfeetnr move, like a feather, with both ! feet occasionally o!T tlm ground, While under ■ him was a noise like that of any empty cart | bouncing over a stony street." I At a recent Lite.rarv Fund dinner imLotij don, Mr Tom Taylor, the dramatist, said that ■ during his twenty-two years of official life, his literacy work was chiefly done in "the iiiI valuable three, hours before breakfast." To j this we may add that Gtwge Eliot's favourite [time for composition is from s=x in the. morning till nine; and Mr Anthony Trollope I ''breaks the back of the day," as Sir Walter j Scott has it, by improving the same shining ; hours. ~ •; Under the head of ,«.' Good -Drinking," a correspondent in the Star enters into figures , showing the number of hobblers it was nej eessary to sell at the Dnnedin races in order j that the booth-holders should clear a profit of j 100 per cent. To this end he finds "it will | be needful that 35,200 drinks be sold to realise the necessary amount. Allowing from i noon ti11.5 p.m. as the hours of sale for three j days, this gives the modest consumption of | over 30 drinks every minute during the whole [ls hours. This is as against 34 drinks a 'initiate during 12 hours at the Caledonian i games." . ~.; ~, ! A number of women residing in, Great King street aired their grievances in the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, and the disclosures that were. made shewed .that thev must have behaved more like a set of furies than anything else. It was sworn that one of the party had gouged another's eve out, and bitten off part of a man's ear, while a loaded whin had also been freely used. A lemonade bottle had. also been used as I a weapon of wa"faro. The Cases were'disI missed, as the testimony was conflicting or 1 unsnppported, but ii seemed a pity that the Magistrate could not have heavily fined all the parties, concerned. —Daily Times.