MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 531, 21 June 1872, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

There was a lively radio for a coffin at a recent North Carolina fair. At the Central Criminal Court, London, a woman named Grange has been sentenced to fifteen years’ penal servitude for throwing nitric acid over her husband. A New York justice told a'witness: “Young man, if you speak in that way again this Court will forget its dignity and punch you in the snoot.” ■ * The, following was lately placarded on the window of a Lon lon tobacconist :—‘‘lf the man who stole the meerschaum pipe on Saturday will call for the case ho will receive five shillings reward. A Liverpool boy has been convicted of a most original method of fowl-stealing. His plan was to feed stray birds with peas saturated with whiskey, and when they became groggy to “ bag ” them. The latest New York discovery is “ Immortality. ” A woman is the discoverer, and for a consideration—a very high one—pours something into your eyes—something else into your ears, rubs your head all over with a third preparation, and renders you invulnerable if not beautiful for everAs a wife was holding her husband’s aching head in her hands, one morning she asked—“ Are a man and wife one “I suppose so,” said the husband, “Then,” rejoined tho wife, “I camo home drunk last night and ought to be ashamed of myself.” Here is a Missouri paper’s notion of the high calling of journalism.:—“\Ye arc compelled to make this week’s issue almost exclusively a local and advertisement paper ; but look out for next week's. It will be one of gayest, fiercest, hottest papers that ever went forth from an American news raggery.” . . . j