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Dunstan Times, Issue 789, 1 June 1877, Page 4

A London correspondent of an exchange writes I have just been informed, under the strictest reserve, that there was a “ breeze ” at Court the other day, which will affect the arrangements of. “the late Prince Consort’s favorite gillie.” The moment he was known to be disengaged the most tempting offers were showered upon him, but his motto is, Aut Ccesar ant nullus. He can well afford to withdraw into' private life, and he will most probably do so. A Phrenological Journal advises young men to be governed by the chin in picking out a wife. It is the music of the chin which quite frequently governs (hem afterwards. We don’t know in what way the chin indicates character, hut now that this advice is got abroad maidens will do well to keep the chiu well wiped, and to sail in at once. A man was sawing wood yesterday in a back yard. He severed two sticks as thick as your wrist, and then went into the house. “ Mary,” said he to his wife, “my country needs me : there’s no use talking, we must go slaughter those Injuns, no true patriot can be expected to hang round a wood pile these days.” “John,” said his wife, “ifyou tight Injuns as well as you saw wood and support your family, it would take one hundred and eighteen like you to capture one squaw, and you would have to catch her when she had the ague and throw pepper in her eyes.” John went hack to the wood pile wondering who told his wife about him. The Czar of Russia makes nearly 55,000 dollars a day out of his position, and when he knocks off in the middle of the day to go out play base ball or see a horse race, he isn’t docked a eont. In all policies of life insurance these, among a host of other questions, occur : “ Age of father, if living ? Age of mother, if living?” A man in the country who filled up an application made his father’s ago “if living ” one hundred and twelve years, and his mother’s one hundred and two. The agent was amazed at this, and fancied ho had secured an excellent customer; but feeling somewhat dubious, heremarked that the applicant came of a very long-lived family. “ Oh, you see. sir,” replied he, “my parents died many years ago, but ‘ if living ’ would ho aged as they arc put down.” “ Exactly—l understand,” said the agent. The paternal author of a heiress was approached by a youth who requested a few moments conversation in private, and began : —“ I was requested to see you sir, by your lovely daughter. Our attachment ” “ Young man,"interrupted the parent, briskly, “ I don’t know what that young girl of mine is about. You arc the fourth gentleman who lias anproached mo this morning on this subject. I have given my consent to the others, and I give it to you ; God bless you,”