MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 699, 10 September 1875, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

A dentist at work in his vocation, always looks down in the mouth. It is good ground for divorce in St Louis if a wife finds one hundred and thirteen love letters in her husband’s pocket. A man may not go crazy by blowing into the muzzle of his gun, but the chances are that he will lose his head by it. An Indianian boasts of having lived ten years with one wife without a harsh word or a flat iron passing between them. At the Hull Police Court, a constable, named Harris was recently fined a week’s pay for dragging a woman whom he had in custody along by her hair. The constable had been in the force six years. The French Government has expressed ■an intention of taking active measures to prevent the use of the French Flag by vessels engaged in the South Seas, it having been represented that the improper use of this flag materially interferes with the action of British cruisers engaged in the suppression of the labor traffic. At the Court of Louis XfV, there were two fat noblemen—cousins. The King rallied one of them on his corpulency, and added, “ I suppose you take little or no exorcise ?”—“ Your Majesty will pardon me,” said tlie Duke, “ for I generally walk two or three times around my cousin every morning.” An antitnhacconist in addressing a company of sailors warned them against chewing and smoking, and declared that every pipe was had, however moderately it was indulged in. “ Avast there,” exclaimed an an old salt ; I know a pipe that never hurt anybody.”—“What is it ?” blandly asked the lecturer. old tar, and the lecturer was extinguished in a flood of laughter. if an editor omits anything, ho is lazy. If lie speaks of things as they are, people get angry’. If he glosses over or smooths down the rough points, he is bribed. If he rails things by their proper names, he is unfit for the position of an editor. If he does not furnish his readers with jokes, he is a mullet. If ho does, ho is a rattlehead, lacking stability. If ho condemns the wrong, he is a good fellow but lacks discretion. IE he lets wrongs and injuries go nnraentioned, ho is a coward. If he exposes a public man, he docs it to gratify spite—is the tool of a clique, or belongs to the “ outs.” If he indulges in personalities, ho is a blackguard. If he does not, his paper is dull and insipid. Sj at least says the Akron Argus.