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Dunstan Times, Issue 209, 28 April 1866, Page 3

The other morning a menagerie left Manchester for Dundee between one and two o'clock, a.m. The elephant was ridden down Market-street by his keeper, and such an unwonted sight at that hour of the night so frightened some pedestrians returning from a party, that they ran screaming into one of the side streets. This . attracted the attention of a constable, who remonstrated with the keeper for riding about the streets at such an hour.. Some high words passed between the men, when the constable sought to exercise his authority; but the elephant distinctly intimated his disapproval of such a proceeding, and the policeman narrowly escaped a blow from the animal's, trunk. Nothing daunted, the policeman obtained the help of a brother constable, and they proceeded to the Victoria Station. The elephant and his keeper "were bj- this time in the box about to start" by the 2 o'clock train, and the police endeavored to get at the keeper. lie called " Charley, Charley," and the intelligent creature gave a loud roar, and stuck at the police with his trunk, but fortunately missed them, and made the side of the box resound with the force of the blow, This convinced the police that the elephant was too much for them, and they retired discomfited. A Pitman's Description of the Crossing of the Red Sea.—At a meet-

ing of pitmen held in Nowcascle Town Hall on the subject of the Cramlington strike, a delegate from the black country after dilating on the moral welfare of the men of Cramiing(on, r proceeded to review the relative bearing of " things spiritual" between master and man, debating at souielength on the "wicked conduct of the employers in turning the miners out of their houses." He concluded with the following peroration on ■' rows," as he termed the strike : —" Yis, lads ; mony a gad thin ■ hez cum out iv a row. (Loud applause.) Yis, lads, we read in t' ou'd book thct tli' chilther o' Isr'l geet thru wiv a row. They wes both on th' banks of th' Reed Roa. when they wes chased by Pharey' The sea hopen'd, and the people of Isr'l kpz, ' Now Mozey' lad; now's thy time' The sea cleared, and away they wint, Phnrey b'in' left behind. Pharey thought he'd hey a shie at 'era, so he says, ' Here goes,' in lie went, and—" The remainder of this sentence was lost, in consequence of the laughter which ensued. ( Artemus Ward, in a private letter, j states that Dr. Humming, the famous seer and profit, having foretold that the end of the world will happen on his own birthday in January, 18G7, he ! (Artemus will not visit England until the j bitter end of 18'3G, when the people there will be selling off, and dollars will be ! plentiful. Mr. Ward says tnat he shall j leave England in the last steamer, in time Ito see tiie American .eagle spread his j wings, and with the stars and stripes in i beek and tallents, sore away to his knative ; empyrelium. A parson one prefaced his sermon with ! " My friends, let us say a- few words before jwe begin." This is about equal to the man ! who took a short nap before he went to j sleep.