MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 586, 11 July 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

o Tho following arc some max-'uis by a Quaker priter : —"Never send thou an article for publication without giving the editor thy name, for thy name oftcntimoß secures pub 1 'cation. Never do thcu loaf abcufc a piinting office, ask questions, or knockdown type, or tho boys wilt love you •as they do shade trees—when thou leavoth. Thou should never read copy on the printers case, or the composer thereof may knock thee down. Never inquire thou of the editor for the news, for behold it is his business at the appointed time to give it to thee.without asking. It is not light that "thotrishouldstask him who is tie au'dior o* an article, for it is hi 3 duty to kejp suck thing 3 to h ; mscU. Whou thou dost entc r hUsolne?, take hoed unto thyself that thou dost not look "at what may be lying open and concerneth thee not, for,thatis not meet in]tho sight of good brooding. Neither examine thou tho 'proof sheet, for it is not ready to msetjthine eye, that thou rnayest understand." An account isgivea'by'tho Hobart Town Mercury jot a voracious] king'ish which was recently caught in a dock by Mr. Thomas Stopford. Mr. Stopford was occupied in repairing aklrain'runuing iuto the dock> and.while at work he heard a " flopping 7 ' on the oLthc/lock. He at once ran to the spat, an.l there found a kingfish high if not_dry sand,"where he had been . left by] the'[ebbing"waters. His " majesty" looked line, fresh, and pluir.p, and was'at once opened wish a view to his being cooked for supper, when" in his maw wore \liscovcred[slx linehnuliet. .The mullet ■had all their backs.broken where the kingfish had caught themju his ja vs, bub with this"excepti.m.thsyhadbecn bolted " whole and entire." 'JL're is an adventure with a shark. Our informant tells us that he was coming over l'roni_Goro_in[an"open'_boat, on the cSthult., and when nearing ■ the Wayaka the frail craft was attacked by an immense sharkThe boat was first struck somewhat violently.'.whick'made him think that she had touched some coral patch, but lie was soon undeceived, for on looking down into thejwater he saw the monster of the deep deep about to renew tho attack. The boat hook was at once called into requisition for purposes of defence, and a combat ensued. The shark renewed its attacks, and each time was violently assaulted with the hook, until the last time the hook was driven with such force as to cause the fish to beat a retreat. There was a lady in tho boat at the time, and the horror of her position may ho better imagined than described. TheTichbome trial is proceeding. Already one hundred and twelve witnesses have been examined. Ten testify to Pogor Tichborne being tattooed, and thirty-nine identify the claimant .'.as! Orton. Twentytwo officers of. Carbineers repudiate tho chuoiant having over belonged to tho regiment. The British swallows set at liberty in Hobart Town three years ago have multiplied greatly, and are now to be secu in great numbers in aud around the city. The authorities at,.Windsor Castle recently received an intimation that an arrive at the palace at three o'clock on a certain afternoon, for tho 'purpose of claiming certain ri«hts. [Punctually'at the moment the gentleman in question made his appearance, and of coarse was duly received by the police onicer on duty. __ He, upon his arrival, claimed Her Most Gracious Majesty as his his mother, "and alleged that,'when a toy in Germany, the Queen had Unformed him of his parentage. When told that, if he remained here he would most probably be placed in ajiunatio asylum for life, he expressed hi 3 intention, under such circumstance?, cf at once returning ,[to America. He had arrived at Windson by the 12.45 train on tho South-Western', Railway, >nd at 'l,lO ho was seen safely off on his return to London. Tho visitor said he should go to Westminster Abbey on Sunday, Hampton Court on Monday, and then leave for Liverpool, en route for New .York. As the schoolboy say, "Marbles are in " and considerable amusement was afforded the other day (says tho Bzndigo Independent )hy the sight of a number of brokers engaged in the peaceful recreation of "ring taw" in front of the Beehive. The game not only afforded them amusement, but was tho cause of amusement to others, wdio renewed recollections of their boyhood, and chuckled when a good knuckle-down shot was made. One appopletic looking gentleman was heard boasting that he had won " five and twenty ;" wbika somo mi- th was provoke! by tho care with which a swell clad in irreproachable sit-upons, spread his handkerchief on the gxnur.l before making a shot. We congratulate our friends of ihc Beehive upon ibis latest addition to their recreations, and hope it will last. If they will take our word for it, marbles are supeiior to billiards, whisky-poker, 100, Yankee-grab, pitch and toss, or—sharebroking ! A bank manager lately brought before a police court the writer of a threatening letter. And he wa3 quite light thus to cheek bravado. Threatening letters do not always produce exactly the same result. A few years ago the manager of another branch of tho same bank in another colony was chceringly assured in an anonymous letter that if he showed himself on tho following day in the street in which the bank was situated he wpuld be shot down remorselessly. Ho was a languid manager this, and somewhat of the Sir Charles Coldstream type. On the morning in question, however, ho put a rix-shooter in his pocket, and during the whole day patrolled tho proscribed street. This unusual peiformance attracted the attention of some of his friends, to whose inquiries he replied that ho was " waiting to be shot." But the shooter didn't turn up. He probably noticed that the manager always kept one hand ill his pocket.— Australasian,