EXTRACTS’FROM "PUNCH."

Dunstan Times, Issue 550, 1 November 1872, Page 3

EXTRACTS’FROM "PUNCH."

Mediums, who profess to obtain correct information from tables, have been entirely baffled by the Railway Time Tables. They have tried them, and found they don’t answer. The office cf Chief Commissioner of Works was once filled by Manners. It is not now. A Dreadful Discharge.—A “Whallcy” of nonsense. a A young lady said she should like to up in a baloon. She wished very much to get above the clouds and look down. It must be so pretty. She had heard that even the darkest cloud had a silver lining. . “ Not square the circle I” exclaimed my Lord Tomnoddy, after lunch at Goodwood, “Why, a ring’s a circle, isn’t it ? Well then, take the betting ring, and I’ll bet ten to two that any one can “ square” it. A certain species of after-dinner conversation is commonly deecribed as “ talking horse.” It might generally, perhaps, be better described as “ talking donkey.” What is the diffierence between fixed stars and shooting stars ? The one are suns; the other darters. Parisian. —Great Success ! Now on View, M. Thiers’ New Loan Collection. There is certainly one claim which may be advanced by the United States, and is incontestible ; the claim of Mr. Stanley to having discovered Dr, Ligstone.

The Tichborne case, which has been rather quiet for a time has again cropped up. At demonstrations at Leicester and Loughborough, Mr. Ondow stated that evidence had been received to show that one of the 1 crew belonging to the Bella had landed at Swansea, and had been sent by the Claimant’s opponents to Spain. The man’s name was William Evans, and his parents would be produced at the trial to testify to their son’s reeurn. He had also evidence relating to two others of the five comprising the Bella’s crew. The Kensington News [announces the death of Thomas Carter, one of the most important witnesses in the case, who was severely examined by Mr. Hawkins. His evidence was regarded as one of the main points affecting the alleged military ’career of the Claimant. Holloway’s Ointment and Pills have been placed by the common consent of mankind.’at the head of internal remedies. To say that tin warm climates generally and in that of the ,Capc [more especially, they save thousands upon /thousands of persons[annually from falling a sacrifice to dyspepsia, dysentery, diarrhea, constipation, liver complaint, general debility, remittent fever. &c., is simply to relate a fact attested by crowds of, our Colonial witnesses. No sufferer from scorbutic affections has ever failed to experience relief from them, and they are guaranteed to Cure Chronic diseases of the internal organs.which have previously baffled the skill of the most succssful practitioners.