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Evening Star, Issue 3278, 22 August 1873, Page 3

The maddest man in Camden Town is Smith. He wound up his dock regularly every night for 15 years, and then discovered that it was an eight-day clock. He muses on the work he might have done in those wasted minutes, and his anger is dreadful. An American paper says that a young lady, who is worth 30,000 dollars, recently refused to marry a clergyman because thought she was unlit to be the wife of a minister. He then abandoned bis sacred calling and proposed again. The second time she refused his offer on the ground that she was too good to marry a man who would throw away his clerical robes to win a woman’s hand. A Novel Way to Cheat the Gallows.—A prisoner in jail in San Diego under sentence of death for murder, forstalled the gallows by chewing up letters from his friends, the paper of which had been saturated with morphine. The jailer had noticed that he employed his vacant hours in chswing paper aud throwing the wads about his cell, but never thought of interf«ring with this seemingly harmless