MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 744, 21 July 1876, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Deception one cannot see through. A glass eye. What riches are those that ceita'-’y make themselves wiugs and fly away ’-—Ostriches. A country paper, in describing the bin ning of a dwelling, mentions the rescue, “ by way of a window, of the servant-girl, fifteen feet in height.” A man with a wooden leg was so overjoyed that it was wood, when a mad dog bit it, that he could ha r dly refrain from having his other leg replaced by one made of the same anti-hydrophobic material Mrs Partington says she was much elucidated last Sunday on hearing a fine discourse on the parody of . the prodigious son.

A Salt Lake Mormon hag proposed to the committee of the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition to show his nine wives, “and illustrate one of the social phage of American life.” Ho adds that the women are anxious to go,

A little boy from the city went into tho country visiting. He bad a bowl of broad and milk. Ho tasted it, and then hesitated a moment, when his mother asked him if ho didn’t like it, to which ho replied, smacking his lips, “ Yes, ma; I was only wishing our ‘ milkman would keep a cow.” The Hindoo holy books forbid a woman to see dancing, hear music, wear jewels, blacken her eyebrows, eat dainty food, sit at a window, or view herself in a mirror, during tho absence of her husband, and allows him to divorce her if she has no sons, injures his property, scolds him, quarrels with another woman, or presumes to cat before he has finished his meal, .