MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 670, 19 February 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—o — Some Boston girls are about to establish a sock-darning factory for the benefit of friendless young bachelors. The adage that “ Providence helps those who help themselves,” don’t apply to those who help themselves to the best there is on the table, and leave their fellow-boarders to skirmish for the rest. Difficult Punctuation.—Putting a stop to a gossip’s tongue. Light Employment.—Laboring under a mistake. An amusing anecdote has just become known. A few days since a man who had formerly belonged to the volunteer corps of which the Duke of Norfolk is captain (9th Sussex), wrote an imploring letter to him, asking assistance from difficulties which had recently befallen him, and stating the petitioner’s intention to enlist for a soldier. His grace very naturally supposed that some of the ordinary misfortunes in life had befallen the applicant and kindly remitted him a cheque for L 5 to help him over his difficulty. A day or two after the duke’s agent, in talking with his grace on the business matters of the estate, remarked that he had been reluctantly compelled to prosecute a notorious poacher who had been found in the Arundel Park reserves firing at the pheasants. “ Who is he?” inquired the duke. The agent replied that his name was Sharp. “ Indeed,” replied his grace, 11 that is the same man I had a letter from the other day saying he was in trouble, and I sent him L 5.” It was soon seen that the man’s “trouble” was brought about through poaching in the duke’s preserves, and that whilst the agent was prosecuting the man the duke was finding him the money to pay the fine. The man has since bolted from Aumdcl,