MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 689, 2 July 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—o— tlie office of one of the hotels recently, ft gentleman snapped his finger to a bootblack, and as he put his foot on the box he said : ‘ You look like a good, smart boy.’ See hero mister !’ replied the boy as ho rose np, a brush in either hand, ‘ I’ve had that game played on me a dozen times, and now I want to know whether this is a cash shine or whether yon are going to pat me on the head when I get through and tell me that I’ll bo Governor of Michigan some day ?’—Detroit Free Press The married ladies of a western city have formed a “Como Homo Husband Club.” It is about 4ft. long, and has a brush at the end of it. Editorial Longsufforing at an End. “ For the present,” says the “Rochester Democrat,” will correspondents please write on neither side of the sheet?” Outlandish Lingo.—A. correspondent says that he knows a family in which the arrival of a German lady’s maid was hailed by her fellow-servants as a godsend to the Italian butler for “ now the two foreigners would bo able to jabber in there ow;n outlandish lingo to their hearts’ content.” A great Parisian medical authority gives the following receipts to keep in good health and to ruin the doctors :—“Drink little wine, cat not at night, walk after each meal, sleep not after dinner, good temper, rest, and soberness are worth all the medicines in the world ; sleep in pure air, often wash your hands- this conduces to health. ”