MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 367, 7 May 1869, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Monsieur Du Chaillu describes the costumes of the Court of King Diops in the following manner The King wore a dress coat, and nothing else; his first minister wore a shirt, without sleeve®, and nothing

else ; the second Minister wore a necktie, and nothing else ; the third was adorned with a hat, and nothing else ; but the Queen varied the fashion by wearing an umbrella, and nothing else. This calls to mind the old Texan ranger uniform—a straw hat and a pair of spurs.—Orchestra. I met with an odd misprint, in a country newspaper, the other day. It stated that a young lady, at an amateur concert, had won a well-deserved encore by the exquisite taste with which she sang the well-worn old song, “An Angel’s Whisker.” This is nearly as good as the famous paragraph which by the substitution of a ‘c” for an hj,” made a railway train run over a cow, and “ cut it into calves.” I read once, too, in an account of an assault case, that the medical witness, on examining the complainants head, found an incised wound there which was “ two inches long, and some feet deep”. “ Some feet ” was a misprint for somewhat, very badly written. The reporter was a Scotchman, and having missed the exact depth of the wound, had cautiously indulged in a vague generality. Dean Stanley stated, at a public meeting a few months ago, that a correspondent once wrote to him to ask what he meant by a passage in one .■ f his works, containing the words, “ the horns of the burning beast ” On reference, he found that this was the humorous way in which the printer had chosen to produce “the thorn of the burning bush.”— “Cassell’s Magazine.” M. Edouard Lockroy, now undergoing an imprisonment of four months atSte. Pelagic for a newspaper offence, requested permission to have the company of his favorite dog, to which the gaoler replied that he had no instructions to treat dogs like journalists. The admiration which her Excellency, the Countess Spencer has roused in the hearts of tho Irish people has found expression in the pretty sobriquet of Spencer's Faerie Queen.