ODDS AND ENDS.

Evening Star, Issue 3897, 20 August 1875, Page 3

ODDS AND ENDS.

The canton of St. Gall, Switzerland, derives its name from an Irish missionary of the seventh century. “ And there’s an end of it,” indignantly remarked Mr Crabtree, of Batts County, Ga., when he bit off the end of Dr Nolen’s nose the other day, for presenting his bill for pro’ fessional services. “Julius, why is de gettiu’ out o’bed on do Slat ob August, like one ob Moore’s Melodies ? Docs you gib it up, my ’speoted cullud friend?” “In course 1 docs. Why?” “Bekaie it’s de last rose ob summer.” A gentleman, accustomed t > the signature of the firm in which he was partner, having to sign a baptismal register of one of his children, entered it as the sou of Smith, Jones, and Co. According to an official pa per just published, there were in the year ending the 31st of March last f>.482 refreshment houses in the United Kingdom, the amount of duty charged being L 5,812. An editor in a small town in Illinois, after having be<n to his first ball, gave himself up to the whirl of society; and this is how it affected him ; —“ We are in the midst of the season for parties, dancing, mirth, and festivity. The rosined hair < f the horse travels merrily over 'he intestine;. of the a,die cat evoking made to which the impatient feet trip gaily upon the floor.” Still Something Needed : A piuu.dy inclined Oakland gentleman, while gnuig down stairs in the dark, stumbled over slop-bucket, waterpitcher, or something, and immediately indulged in a “ spontaneous ebullition of feeling,” us he afterwards called jt. Mis mother-in-law, who is very deaf, was at the other end of the house, and remarked that “John still needed the refining influence of Chinch socials.”