MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 485, 4 August 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

At the Oxford Assizes a verdict with 700.1 damages has been given against a young Berkshire farmer, who, after being accepted by the elder of two sisters, proposed to tbe other, telling her be would like to change. Being refused, and “ getting it hot ” from the yong lady, be went back to the old love for a time, but at last broke off tbe engagement, taking advaut age of her refusal to go with him to a public ball. The persistency with which the “ people” of England dog the footsteps of any person of note is posstlvly disgustmg. The fallen Emperor of the French is for the time being the unhappy object of their disagreeable attentions. On Good Friday the police had to interfere to prevent the’use of a “ grand stand”.|‘ereoted at Chiselhnrst for excur sio’rsts to «es His Majesty go by to church. “ The Emperor desireaseclusion,” was said to one of these inquisitive persons. “ Fxclusion'.be ” was thereply, “ veere leeHumpyronrl llooray 1” A labourer was last week commuted for trial for stealing a quantity of human hair which formed part of a vessel upon which he had bean employed. Some amassuiet was caused by the positive manner in which the prosecutor identified the hair as German by its fineness an 1 colour, fl i dsela-e 1 its nationally was attached to it, which caused his worship to express a hope that nothing else was attached to it. A woman, the wife of one of the City of London police was a short time lince remanded on a charge of attempting suicide. She gave a mo-t extraordinary reason for her conduct. She had no home to go to. The husband gave evidence of the good character of his wife, and said that the police were not allowed to live outside the City boundaries, and it was impossible to get proper accomodation within them. They were afiaid to petition the Commissioner "of Police. “ St. Patrick’s day ” has been tbe Irishman's excuse for many a mad freak ; and perhaps one of the maddest was that lately enacted by two labourers, who, after being “ treated ” by a gentleman, amused themselves by tearing up their clothes in the street, being found oerfectly nude in Cheapside. They were clad fn workhouse garments and taken before the magistrate, who gave them three weeks’ imprisonment for their folly. A ratepayer of Dundee, hearing that the burgh authorities intended banquotting on the day of the Royal Wedding at tbe expense of himself and fellow citizens, petitioned the sheriff of the county for an interim interdict to prevent sueh awwa l e of the public funds. The sheriff issued the intervention, but the ’town clerk disputes his jurisdiction, and we are as yet uninformed whether the feast took place. Upwards of sixty thousand horses were eaten in Pars. How many were used up and eaten during the war, (it is impossible to tell; but it must leave a very large demand for them as soon ns things settle down again after peace is established. In the Sandwich Islands it is death fora man’s mother-in-law to visit him without permission. Happy Sandwich Islanders.