MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 659, 4 December 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The best way to abolish knaves is to abolish fools.

A brooch, composed of four crooked brass pins, set richly in the centre of a cluster of twenty diamonds upon a lapislazuli ground, and protected by a glass point, is worn by a Hungarian countess. The count, her husband, found these pins on Lis coat after having been taken to his solitary cell, under condemnation for some political misdemeanour and to prevent loss of reason he scattered the pins on the ground of the cell and then hunted for them in the rayless darkness till they were found, only to scatter them again and resume the search, thus preserving his reason the dangerous torture of thought. In memory of this the lady wears the bent plus in her choicest jewels.

Dependent on Circumstances. A widower wants to know whether a man can love his second wife as well as the first ’ That depends on what sort of a wife the first was, and what kind of a life the second leads him !

An Extraordinary Marriage. —An event of this description is reported by the East Sussex News to have taken place at Jevingtou not lung ago, the ceremony being performed by the Very Rev. Archdeaeon Phil, pott, m the presence of a large congregation. The nuptial pair both belong to the parish of Jcvington ; hut the singular part is the fact that the bride has no anus, and the ring had to he placed on the third toe of the left foot. At the conclusion of the marriage ceremony she signed the register, holding the pen with her toes, in a verydecent “hand.” The bride has accustomed herself to use her needle, and do many other useful things with her toes.

'there is now a yearly consumption of 10,000,000,000 cubic feet of gas in Loudon. This requires for its production the distillation of upwards of 1,000.000 tons of coal or more than 0000 every day. You should have shaken hands and allowed that it was all a mistake ! said a Detroit Judge. “The lion and the lamb would have lain down together, and white-robed peace would have fanned you with her wings and elevated you with her smiles of approbation. But no ; you went to clawing and biting, and rolling in the mud—and here you are. It's live dollars a-piece.”

.Sunday- York.—An old Western farmer, who was anything but religous, had hired a devout negro, and to get soineSiuulav work out of him had to resort to various specious divices. One morning Sambo proved refractory- “ he would work no more on Sundays.” The master then argued with him that in a case of necessity even the Scriptures allowed a man to get out of a pit on a Sabbath day a beast that had fallen in. “Yes, massa,” rejoined the black, “but nut if he spent Saturday diggiu’ Jo pit for do berry purpose.!”