MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 750, 1 September 1876, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

- o Woman haters.—Women. A Shareholder.—A ploughman. Something about Milk. —Water. Sunday school teacher—“ Annie, what must one do to be forgiven ? Annie—“ He must sin.” An obituary notice in a country newspaper contained the touching intelligence that the deceased * had accumulated a little money and ten children.’ A jilted one pathetically sings . “ ’Tis sweet to wait, but oh ! how bitter To wait fora girl and then not git her.” When freedom, from her mountain height, unfurled her standard to the air, her skirts, pinned back so very tight, made her appear exceeding square. Mrs Mina Jury, a sister of Arthur Orton, who will be remembered as a witness against the Claimant in the Tichborne Trial, has been convicted of a number of robberies, and sentenced to seven years’ penal servitude. “ Tommy, my son, fetch me a stick of wood,” “ Ah! my dear mother,” responded the youth ; “ the grammatical portion of your educationhas been sadly neglected. You should have said : ‘Transport from that recumbent collection of combustible material upon the threshold of this edifice one of the curtailed excresences of a defunct tree.

A detachment of American soldiers being suddenly attacked by Indians, fired their mountain howitzer without removing it from the back of the mule that was carrying it, the result of which was that the mule and howitzer went rolling down the declivity towards the red men, who fled in consternation. One of the Indians being captured and asked why he ran so, replied : —“Me big Injun not afraid of little guns or big guns, but when white men load up and fire a whole jackass in Injun, me don't know what to do.”

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