MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2721, 6 November 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

An Indiana attorney sent back a paper endorsed “ Rejected as a nuisance.” Jolly Saratogas, when the funeral bell begins to toll, bet on the age of the deceased. What is the difference between a coat and a baby ? The one 1 wear, the other I was ! In a Charleston hotel a guest recently astonished the waiter by telling him to “ bring the whole bill of fare.” In Chicago the police are complained of as untidy, with uncombed hair, unwashed faces and hands, dirty boots and very faulty uniforms. In Truro, Mass., there are 105 widows whose husbands were lost at sea. A good place for old bachelors to spend the summer. A man in Newark kept marrying to try and get a suitable wife. Afcer four unsuccessful trials he blew out the cavity where the brains ought to have been. A good little girl in Springfield, Massachussets, cried herself “almost to death,” because she had forgot to thank a man who had found hor lost cauary. In Chicago, a woman, catching hor husband drinking whisky, whipped him until he begged for mercy and promised not to drink any more. A young Ban Clare couple got married “for fun,” but found afterwards that they were married in earnest, aud started to Chicago for a 5$ divorce.