MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 407, 4 February 1870, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A “thief hat” lias been invented by a \iinkee. The hat is of ■* chimney-pot ” slnpo, formed of india-rubber, very clastic. The thief, wearing this hat, enters the shop of some jeweller, or any p'aca where there arc articles of value, siezos a favourable moment to thrust the hat on the shopman, and force it down to his shoulders. It is ad led that the victim can neither cry out nor quickly remove the hat, and that the thief lias ample time to pursue his theft at leisure.

Boston tells the talc of a man aged one hundred and four, who, on his hundredth birthday, ordered a pair of shoes, saying he wanted them stoutly built. The shoemaker romanced that he might not live to wear them out, but he sharply retorted that he began this hundred years a good dead stronger than he di 1 the last one. An Indian being at an Englishman’s house at Surat, expressed his surprise by loud exclamations on seeing a vast quantity of froth oozo out of a bottle of porter as soon ns the cork was drawn. Being somewhat snprised,he replied, “I don't wonder at it that the froth comes out of the bottle; hut how the deuce did you ever contrive to squeeze it all in?"

A New York paper says that there is a bureau in that city, •* from which men may he obtained who will tor a reasonable price commit perjury on any subject or in any interest.

A hoy and a girl, cliil Iron of a Birmingham cabman, were in bed, when their father entered their bedroom, an 1 the girl noticed him tie a han Ikerohief round his nock, and attach it to tho bedpost. Next morning tho father was standing in the same position, and they remarked to each other that “fatherhad been standing there all night.” lie was dead. Ton girl sai 1 to the coroner “ she thought ho wasjok'ng”, and went to sleep again.