MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 597, 26 September 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Carpets though’ bought by the yard, are worn by the foot. Wanted a needle to sew out a patch on the pants of a tired dog. Why should Ireland be the richest country in the world ? Because its capital is always Dublin. A dandy on shoreis disgusting to many;but a swell at sea isaaprt r to sicken every body. The state mineralogist of Wisconsin an bounces that there is enough iron ore in the neighborhood of the Black River. Falls to supply the whole of the United States for the next ten centuries. • The Mayor of a Portuguese city once enumerated, among the marks by which the body of a drrwned man might be identified, “a marked impediment in his speech. A candidate for the civil service recently gave up his examination in disgust, because he was asked how many bushels of wheat could be bought for 21., if one cost 2s. He said he had not learned anything about wheat, but had always done his sums in potatoes and turnips. The maddest man in Cam leu Town is Smith. He wound up his clock regularly every night for fifteen years, and then discovered that it was an eight-day clock. He muses on the woik he might have done in those wasted minutes, and his anger is dreadful. The most astonishing newspaper Venture we ever hoard of is shadowed forth by the Belfast “Northern Whig ” which says; It is to be called the “ Country Daily Newspaper ” and its special object will be to supply the rural districts with a daily paper of Conservative principles, at such a price that every one above the status of a pauper will be able to take it in. The price will l e a penny per week, or a farthing for a single copy The news will be given in very short pithy paragraphs ; the leaders will be what journalists call “ paragraph ” leaders, and the sheet will consist of four pages of two columns each, will he as compact as “ nonpareil ".type can make it. It is intended to set the paper by means of Mr Mackie’s patent steam type composer, which so far as human labor is required at all, will be done by "girls.