MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 540, 23 August 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—o An English artist, travelling- professionally through Scotland, had occasion to re-' main one Sunday in a small town in the North. In a walk in the environs- the picturesque ruinsof a castlo met his eye. He asked its name of a countryman who waspassiug. • The reply was,- ‘-‘This is no’ a day , to be speerin’ ahoot sic things.” I A young lady with a very pretty'fort-but 1 a rather large ankle, went into a Sanfrancisco shoe store to be measured. The admiring clerk, who is of Gallic extraction, cOm-' pliiriented her in the following queer way: 1 “Mad am, you have onebootiful foot, but ze leg commence too immediately?” . Among the replies to an advertisement of a music committee for “a candidate as organist, music teacher,' &ci” a vacancy haying occurred by the resignation of the organist in office was the following:— “Gentlemen,—l notice I your advertisement for organist and music teacher, either lady or gentleman. Having'bceu both for several years, ( offer you my services.” ' " ? A New York wholesale g-ocor, who had become rich in his bussines, has lately made the following revelation:—He says his rule i when he sold a bill of goods oh credit to ' immediately subscribe for the local paper of I his debtor. So long as his customer advertised liberally and vigorously he rested, but ! as soon as be began to contrac his advertising space he took the fact as evidence that there was trouble ahead, and he invariably went for debt. “For, said he, “the man who feels too poor to makeffiis business known, is too poor to do business." The first cable ever laid was between Dover anil Calais, in the year 1851, In 1868 the total length of submarine cables in operation amounted to 8730 miles; in- 1809 there was an increase of 4927 miles; in 1870 of 15,348 miles, and arrangements were entered into for the submersion of 4446 miles during 1871, in addition to which 8700 miles have been contracted for in 1872, making a total of 41,541 miles available when these lines are completed, Since the successful laying of the first Atlantic cable in 1808 those laid by the Telegraph Construction and Maintenance Compauyamouut in length to 22,900 miles, and they represent a capital of nearly seven milliens sterling. The 12, 250 miLs of the line along which the Aust alian telegrams will pass represent, in addidon to the cost of the overland line, a capital of 3,180,000/. French history has strange ups and downs of fortune to record. Louis Philippe was at .me time a tutor in an English private family, and Louis Napoleon carried a London ,-pecial constable's staff in St. James square in April, 1848. He is about in that neighbourhood now, and no doubt thinks upon the circumstances that have to him, like a dream, filled up the intervening twentythree years, He did all that he could for his friends and aud his family connections when fortune was at flood with him, but with him the family seem also to have come to low condition. A mail or two ago we were informed of the Empress Eugeni ’s jewels being on sale at Emanuel's, in Bi nd street, and we now find that in the g m; street a princess of the same family has gone into business. Prince Pierre Napoleon Bonapa te will be lemembered. He occasionally came to the surface during th -empir in various ways. On the last occasion it was for shooting Victor Noir. His princesswife is now a Bond street milliner, like Madame Mantalini,, M »nd we may suppose that Prince Pierre does Mattalini’s, part about the establishment, Here is the business advertisement of the London Times:—“ Princess Pierre Napoleon Bonaparte begs to inform the, nobility a. d gentry of England that she has opened ai, eslablishmant for superior and “distingue” dressmaking. The latest fashions ami novelties from Paris. An early in pectum invitaft, #BfcNew Bond rtsept W."—tit- -- , !