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Dunstan Times, Issue 704, 15 October 1875, Page 3

* Allow that Joh was patient,’ said an old farmer, * but he never seen a determined Shanghai hen settinl on a nest -of biled eggs.’ Mr Francis ‘Grant, of Torquay lately travelled home from Little Ashton, near Birmingham, a distance of 218 miles, on a-fifty-four-inch Ariel bicycle. The first clay he rode to Bristol, 110 miles, and the second day he did the remaining 108 miles. At a “ Spelling-bee” which took place in the Music Hall, Boston, U.S. A., the contestants were fifty boys selected from the higher schools of the city, and fifty editors, reporters, professors, and printers. The contest at length narrowed down to a printer and one of the boys, When, the “ typo” having misspelled the word “ conferrable," victory was" declared for the hoy. ' The manuscript of Dicken's “ Christmas Circle” entirely his autograph, was r-recent-ly sold for L 53; • A comical libel case.—A libel case, in which the libel was of a comical character, has just been heard in the Dublin Court of Common Pleas. There tire, it seems, in Wexford two newspapers—the Wexford Independent, owned by Mr Greene, who is also Mayor of the town, and the Wexford People, the property of Mr Walsh. In the columns of the latter journal appeared the libel complained of, in the shape of sundry letters, charging Mr Greene with being a caitiff, a traitor, a perjurer, a parasite, and —most unkind accusation of all—with having advertised in his paper the sale of a certain bull, which had unfortunately been named “ Pio Nono.” This Was construed into contempt of the papacy by the writer in the People ; and Mr Greene resented the imputations by bringing an action for libel. The Court awarded him LIOO damages. A party of belated- gentlemen, about a certain hour, began to think of home and their wives’ displeasure, and urged a departure. ‘Never mind, 1 said one of the guests, ‘ fifteen minutes can make no difference ; my wife is as mad new as she can be.*