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Dunstan Times, Issue 1051, 9 June 1882, Page 4

AN English Grand Jury lecommended that juvenile offenders be flogged pulilicly for such infractions of law as do not seem to warrant indictment. Obstinate Acld Man. An elderly Aberdeen woman, on being asked how her husband, who was much older than herself, employed himself replied Oh, sir, he daes naething but daufers oot an’ dauners in, an’ fan he’s tired he just gaps sclyte till’s bed." The same wife, when ask'd by affriend " hoo her auld man was keepin’J” replied : “A’ body’s deein’ but him ; an’l wadna vouner pin’ he was sittin’ hostiu there at th“ day o’ judgment.” The impo Utilities of Civil servants (says the A ije) appear to be like those of the widow who appealed to the unjust j dge ; and heads of departments are of' en seriously worried. A member of Parliament who recently applied on behalf of some of his proteges for an increase of pay received the following reply from the head of the department; “It appears to me that we have all the Oliver Twists in this dopirtmont without any of the gratitude of 0 iver. The applicant who has been importuning yon to exert yourself on his behalf appears to forget the regu’ation that oi'ohibts Civil servants from applying t« members of Parliament. He may have special qualifications, as he says, for the work he is performing, but I rhonld think that if he only pays ahont the same attention to his work as ho appears to pay to bis spelling he is considerably overpaid."