MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 638, 10 July 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—o— A now movement has been started in London. It is nothing less than a parliament of working men. A conference of the most advanced amongst the leaders of the working class in London was held the" other day, when the organisation was formed, and a large committee appointed. A French countess seized a philosopher at the supper table, and sinking her voice to a whisper, said: “’while they are cutting up the fowls, and we have five minutes to spare, do tell me the history of the world, for I really want to know it so much.”

A funny scene occurred in the Bowery Theatre, Now York. The scene was a bod room at midnight, with an old gentleman reading a letter. To the sound of slow music a villain entered the room, and with a cat-like, step approahed the old-man, clutching in Lis hand a glittering knife. He approached slowly, and the excitement among the gam'ns iu the gallery became intense. Just as tne woalu-he murderer was about to make a deadly plunge at his unsuspecting victim iyboy who was leaning with open mouth far over the railing of the gallery, tang out with frantic earnestness : “ Look behind you gov’ner. Thce’rs a feller go in’ to stab yer. ” The assassin diopped his knife and roared with the audience, and the curtain dropped without anybody bemg murdered. John R. Gough, the well known temperance orator, is not at all pleased, we observe from the American papers, with the female cnmde against rum, and expresses idmself as follows on the question, o" ray nieces going about among the saloons, praying and singing hymns. I think the movement would help the woman suffrage cause very much, and 1 have always had a sort of dislike to the woman suffrage business. The id ea of a band of ladies going through the streets singing nymns and praying is repugnant to me. It is the duty of policemen to clear away a crowd of men obstructing the pavement, and I think that women come under the same restrictions.”

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