Untitled

Evening Star, Issue 3710, 13 January 1875, Page 3

A Portland young man has sued his barber for cutting off his moustache. The barber says he didn’t see it. Not so Simple as he Looked.—A Detroit maiden tried to be aristocratic and did not look at the money that she gave the horse-car conductor, but he meekly gave her back he lozenge on which was written “ I’ll never cease to love thee,” and said that he was an orphan, with five little brothers to support, and must be excused. Some persons on getting into a first-class carriage at a railway station near Dundee, the other day, were a good deal astonished to find that they were to have as a fellow passenger a pig which some “ladies” had in the carriage with them, upon which they lavished the affection ladies frequently bestow on more desirable pets. As the ‘Dundee Advertiser’ says, “ This beats the lapdog mania.” [After all this is nothing to the Maori practice. Some Maori women actually keep little pigs and dogs and suckle them. —Ed.] Two cases of savagery came before the Liverpool magistrates recently. A woman named Parry was charged with biting the ends off the two forefingers of Mary Murray. Prisoner and prosecutrix’s daughter were fighting when prosecutrix interrupted. The prisoner then bit the ends off her forefingers. Witness deposed that the women fought like wild beasts, biting and tearing each other furiously. Twelve months ago prosecutrix had a finger bitten off by her own daughter. Prisoner was sent to gaol for two months.