MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 690, 9 July 1875, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

The poet Spenser made a sharp pun when he wrote, “ Lastly came winter, clothed all in freeze.” The “ Nischinshinjishi,” the “ Tokionichiniehi Schimbum,” and the “ Chinbansashi ” are Japanese nev spapers. The man who won’t take a paper because he can borrow one has invented a machine with which he can cook his dinner by the smoke of his neighbours chimney. An ambitious Milwaukee wife has named her first babe Zero, because it is nothing to the number she expects to have. Speaking of the travelling of sound, a lecturer said : “ The voice of a woman can be heard further than that of a man.” “ Yes, and oftener,” said a disgusted looking man, who was not happily fixed at home. At Glasgow, a revival preacher, yclept Crow, has been sentenced to sixty days’ hard labor for deserting his wife and family, whom he had left to travel about with a woman called “Preaching Mary.” A curious telegram was the other day tendered at Liverpool for transmission It ran thus—“ Emma, I love you, this affair has been my rain, 1 am going to commit suicide, The clerk refused to send it, and gave the would-be suicide into custody. It turned out that he had been drinking heavily for some days, but had no intention to carry out his threat, and was eventually discharged. Judge Fellows, of Victoria in his summing up in the libel action of Dobson v. the ‘ Daily Telegraph,’ said : —“ The Press was not only justified, but it was its duty to • rip up’ whore there was the suspicion of an illegal ‘ bargain’ between public men.’ If juries would act upon that dictum newspapers would have little cause to be afraid of doing their duty. The ‘Tablet’ urges Irishmen throughout the Colony to remember the near approach of the 6th August, and to lose no time in inaugurating some celebration in honor of “ the man whose labors in the cause of freedom were of a lifetime duration, and whose name alone sheds lustre on the land of his birth.” A little girl of fourteen has jnst died in a prison in Jersey, to which, for some trifling theft, she had been committed for a month, two weeks of which were to be spent in solitary confinement on a bread and water diet. It seems that she was suffering from Bronchitis, and that tho gaoler finding her very ill, removed her to the hospital, where she died within a few hours. If this case has been correctly reported the sooner some alteration of tho law is effected tho better.