MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 685, 4 June 1875, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

0 A man who hid been married twice to ladies both named Catherine advised his friends against taking dupli-kates. Benjamin Franklin used to spell soap “s-o-p-e,” and yet there isn't a day but that some one holds him up as a great philosopher and a good man. A recent discovery has been made by a philosopher that moustaches are the production of brains. Does he mean that the brains go into the moustache ? A philosophic writer says :—“How few .peopie understand the art of carrying an umbrella !” He would agree, perhaps, that some understand the art of carrying them off. When a dead man is spoken of as “ the late Mr Smith,” the inference is that ho did not die early enough, A Rochester man recently made a fever some practical use of in the world. He took thirteen eggs to bed with him, and hatched nine chickens from them ; at least so they say in Rochester. An Oregon girl sent for a doctor to cure her of heart disease. He told her to take something. She took Peter, a Sacramento youth, and her heart now makes its regular 300 revolutions a minute, and she is happy. A paper engaged a reporter to travel and send by wire all important news. The reporter was a novice, and sent the following important news to his paper:—“A judge is down shooting here.” The editor telegraphed back to his hireling—“ Let yourself to him for a target.”