MISCELLANEOUS.

Cromwell Argus, Volume V, Issue 266, 3 November 1874, Page 7

MISCELLANEOUS.

A man calls hia pig "Maud," because it will come into the garden so.

In illustrating the fruits of advert'sing, an exchange .says':—""A.'-family in; Florida lost their little boy,-and.advertised for hivn in a daily paper, That afternoon an alligator crawled up out of the swamp' and died on the front doorstep. In his stomach wa« found .a handful of red hair, some bone buttons, a pair of boot heels, a glass alley, a pair of- check pant*, and a paper collar. The advertisement did it." '

Says an exchange :—"'This is the man for the colonies. We could do with any mi mberuke him.. Although only a 'clerk,' aprofession which Js not in great requisition here, there, is jtjie pith and marrow, bone and muscle, in him which will go down with us very well indeed. 'P.W. C. W.' writes to the Tim>'.s to say a" riian can get on in New Zealand. He hnded there without a friend, and, finding cletks at a discount, walked 120 miles to. tho Duns Lan gold-Bel -h, carried wood to an hotel—eight mil is of rough travelling— for 3s. a bundles; carried bucket* of water into town, up a steep hill, for 4d. a bucket; ds-ove first a bullock- waggon and then a two-horse dray for £'3 a week ; carted bricks, broke, stone on the road, made roads an : the; bush, walked, any distance to any place where work was going, bir'lfc thatched houses, in abort did everything he could find ti> do, ind was ' oust comfortable and happy.'"

A letter from Yew York thus describe one of the-"characters" of the ureat American commercial metropolis :—"Persons who have business on the Eighth Avenue car at the early hour of la.m. will ea;h morning see a .nun enter tie car on his way up to town. He is well and even elegantly «t,« tired, and his diamonds are abundant. He appears to be ahoutJO, and is in prime keeping at that. If watched,;the man will be. seen to enter a brown-stone mansion, whi-h is his home. He lives in fine Hi* wife is a woman ofjfish'on. ■ His-children are well-dreise 1, ml-educated, ivid p*« am ins,' the-best ciiiUron in the citv. Tlin lady has a>pew in a fihionible .church, whhh is taken in her own name. The man it= * cha-ictpr. He is awfell-kuown gambler, and makes gambling atrjde. He never diink«, and his -nerves are; aways steadv. He in * gentleman in speech and uses neither vulgar nor pr<.firie worts.- Indeed, he seldom speaks at all. FTe i'as.certa'm' fUtgs fchao guide him. He new lo.ses hat * cVrfcun sum. He «tops at algivon point wh-n In k is against him. H ■ {lav.:; as Ion.; a* lie wins. For a Ion:.: term tit ydtr* ue'hHA-put;,j;ii-jd tSWj course. He, has anis.Si,d a fortnrie. His children think h'm sTor k->r.' TiiKsu-who know sav he i< or>e u oe m /at 'IV. .vl ■;.•;•/n