MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 557, 20 December 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Jockey who rode the favorite at the las t Derby has been discovered to ho a wo n to, who was urged by her love for a sporting inUlemvi to go on the turf in ordei to bo of service in making up his beUiu cbook. ■ A Missourian who stole a kiss from a pretty gii-l was fined by a' magistrate, horsewhipped by her brother, and huniei into a brain fever by his wife. Tho clergym.i i also allude 1 to the affair in a sermon ; the local editor also sided with the clergy in in, add reviewed the case in print, ai.d the potato bug ate up every blade of tlu m ilefactor’a wheat. A resent return, published in Eng'and shows th it during 1871. d'J 1 persons were killed and 1231 i jured through railway acri lents. It is a matter worthy of note that since tho Regulation of Railways Act, 1831 ha-Tc-.ni j in to force, the number of accidents to servants of the company" has increase U The death rate for 1871 shows a considerable advance over 1870, the year being debited with 2-G silled, and 12.13 injured. The following is an account of a Shaker’.Mee ing recently held at Chelsea;—“As they entered, tho Shakers all kissed tad. other. The men kissed each other, th women kissed each other; then the men rai. abort k'going ths woman, and the girls the: ran an 1 kis ;ed the men. Their kisses aver: not mere single ki-ses or nu rc salutes o love aul peace. They were regular runnin; tires of kissing and lip oh rps, which lasted for several minutes. Th.nr arms wore first round each oth ;rs waists, then round each others nocks then they were looking into each other’s ey s and then kissing again, as though entirely lust to all around in feeling o: the most exquisite ecstaey. After, per kins, a few minutes embracing,some of the younger girls would sit down apparently overcome with hysteria. The men would then make a run and seize hold of anothei girl or woman and embrace and kis: her in the s one frantic manner, while the other young wo men, partly recovered, woulii make a sudden dart across tho reserved spa;e to sum man on the opposite side, and throwing her arras roan 1 his neck, kiss him a* vigorously as before." - ’ Stanley, when he has recovered hi? licallli. it to go to Chini on behalf of the Kem Y jrk tera l .cl, to make explorations,an I give accounts of tho inner life of that marvellous country. The Christmas stow in Tlsxley'sMagazineby -Mr. I). L Fargoon is to bs entitled '•Bread and Oh e-e and Kisses. The name -of the American a ithor who is to avritetlre story “Pork, Beaus and Molasses has not transpired. . Someboly wr.n'e to the editor of an American paporto ask how he w. uld lire ik an ox? The editor replied as follows:—“If on’v one ox, a good way vr uld he to hoist hiai by m run of a 1 >n g chain attached to lus tail, ro the top of a pole 30 feet from the ground. Then hoist him by a rope tied to his h.irua to another pole. Tuen descend on to hia back a live-ton pile driver, and if that fails to break him, let him start a country newspaper and trust people for sub-scrip-tains. Cue of the two ways will doit.,’ A water finder is at present at jAlbury, ho maintains that h- has studied the laws of nature to,such an extent as to be able to ascertain by tho appearance and , character* isdes of the surface soil, whether it covers 3. supply of water, aud if so, at what depth.