MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Star, Issue 3059, 7 December 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

At Port Darwin, a wqtcy.-p.Qlivoma;i, named William newly arrived at the territory, was sewed by an alligator whilst bathing, and eaten by it in sight of several men. According to the Jewish Chronicle , Ireland is the only country in Europe in which the Jews have never been prosecuted, and it once had a chance of being sold to tl;c Jews. A philosopher of no moan repute, propounding across tire walnuts and the wine the true coiuclary theory, was posed by a lady with the terrible question, why--if his theory was correct—Nature had created in vain so many millions of millions of tons of matter? “Perhaps, madam," ho replied, without moving a muscle, “it was with a laudable desire to make dirt cheap/’ A woman named Devation, the wife of a bellringer, in Wanganui, is reported by the Chronicle to have last week vomited up a living lizard, .she is unable to account for the mystery, but she says she can feel she has others yet ip her’ stomacL Pleasant !

A beautiful young lady, who had allowed the tendrils of her heart to twine fondly around a strapping great conductor on a tramway car, had her atfectiouate nature crushed by the discovery that ho was taking fare from her and dead-heading another girl who lived in the same street. ■ iShe did not eat pickles and pine away, but wrote him an affecting epistle, which read, “ You want to nok down emiff tin to get me a paisler shawl & a dolley vardin before a day, or I will put an awning over that girl’s eye the next time I meet her in society. You heerme?”— American Paper.