MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 628, 1 May 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

When a young lady dreams of a enffiin, it betokens that she should instantly dis continue tight stays, and always go warmly clad in wet weather. A paper, in puffing off a certain soap, says it is the “ best overused for a dhty man’s fare. We liave)tried it, and jtbercfore we ought to know.” Josh Billings’sayst ho don’t care how much a man talks,S;if be says it in a few words. It is absurd to say that 41 man is not perfect.” Who ia there that has not met with many who were perfect strangers, soriio who wore perfect rascals, -and not a few who were perfect fools? An Ohio edit of'suggests that every men may bo allowed to marry as many wives as are required to keep homo for him. He has been unfortunate in procuring servants. The prospectus of the Colonial Bank of New Zaaland'hss been issued, camtal two millions, two hundred thousand shares are to lie as follows, 5s on application ; 10s on allotment j 5s in four mouths after ■allotment, ami 5s in six months. This will give a paid up capital of 300,0001. at the end of six months. No furthor’ealls will then bejmadejjfor twelve months after the Bank is first opened in Dunedin. An eccentric correspondent of the Wodonga Herald spir.eth the following somewhat profane yarn “ The children of Eivi rina are nut, perhaps, behindhand ia then - facts, but they are apt to localise matters of Scriptural history. 1 recently overheard a conversation between a gentleman engaged in-putting a youthful Com stalk through a kind of matriculatory examination, and his pupil. The object of the examination was, of course, to ascertain Cornstalk’s acquaintance with primary Biblical truths. The replies wore apt, and generally correct in the main, but strongly'ltiuged with local coloring. They smacked of the Australian bus)!. 1 regret ranch that of that very iuterestingdialogue, I can only remember one question and answer. Question : What did Adam and Eve, when they heard the voice of the Lord in the Garden of Edcu ? Answer : Why, they went and planted behind a gum tree and gammoned.they couldn’t hear.” The Ararat Advertiser writes If the migration of houses which) is 1 at present going on between Ballarat and Stawell continues, we may soon expect to see whole streets belonging to the city ou the road to the reefs. \\ ithin a few days quite a respectable street of buildings passed through, all inhabited, and sailing along to their destination like ships. In one four-roomed cottage the blinds and furniture ware adjusted, and the family seemed to bo enjoying themselves round the domestic hearth without feeling any of the ordinary imconveniences experienced by travellers. One gentleman, who sat at his front door reading and smoking, assisted considerably towards such an impression. The migration ot whole towns in America will cease to bo regarded with surprise by those who have seen so many of the Ballarat cottages en route for Stawell. ” A now manner of catching rats is exciting great interest among the New York householders. A barrel is filled half full of water. A layer of powdered cork is laid on its surface, and over this a layer of corn meal is sifted. A chair and a box or two are placed unobtrusively in the neighborhood, whereby the rat gains the edge of tire barrel. He sees nothing but the meal. He has no lunate ideas which teach him to beware of the treacherous foundation on which that tempting surface rests. He sniffs, ho leaps, and goes gently down through meal and cork to his w,aterygrave. If any of his friends see him disappear from the edge of the barrel, they hasten after him to get their share of the plunder, and are in turn taken in by an hospitable death.

Why are a shoemaker's plana always frustrated ? Because his attemplsalways ead in de-feet. Goubsmitiis’ Work. — The process of fine-art manufacture in this branch of trade is strikingly exemplified in a little work published by Mr. J. \V. Benson, of No. 23, Old Bond-street, ond of the City Steam Factory, 58 and GO, Ludgate-hill, London. It is enriched and embellished with designs, by Italian, French and English artistes, of brooches, bracelets, ear-rings, and other articles, suitable for personal wear, or for wedding, birth-day, or other presents, with their prices. Mr. Benson, who holds the appointment to H.11.H. the Prince of Wales, has also published a very interesting pamphlet ou the llise and Progress of Watchmaking. These pamphlets are scut, post free, for two stamps each, and they cannot bo too strongly recommended to those contemplating a purchase, especially to residents in the country or abroad, who are thus enabled to select any article they may require,an d have it orwarded in nerFect safety.