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Dunstan Times, Issue 539, 16 August 1872, Page 2

The fee ings of a boy, going to school for the first time, who reads that a Master is wanted for “ Blackrod Gran nar School,” and finds that the advertisement refers to the academy of which he is about to become a pupil, may be imagined hut cannot be described.— Punch. The French have a remarkable idea of the capabilities of the English press. Witness the following—the Union Demoerctigne's idea of how a northern contemporary is got up : —“ The Sco’sman is printed on the road from Edinburgh to Glasgow in a waggon, belonging to the'paper, which contains a printing machine, cases o type, and quick compositors. During the journey the edition for the province is worked off, wsth the addition of the news and telegrams received on tire road.” A Western paper whose subscription list has suffered from the evil of newspaper borrowing, says:—“ Reader! if you have borrowed the paper you are reading, don’t do it again. Subscribe. It, isn’t safe to borrow papers. We once knew a poor but honest man, who borrowed a paper, innocently and inadvertently, from a hitherto wholesome neighbor. Fatal act. That terrible contagion, the small-pox, was conveyed insidiously in the fibres of that sheet. Of that extensive and interesting family—- & doting father, a fond wife, several intellectual and heroic sons, thirteen lovely daughters, two popular mothers-iu-law and three beautiful Runts—not or o remained to tell the ta'e.