MISCELLANEOUS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 34, 9 July 1874, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

An indignant correspondent of the “ Golden Age,” lamenting the decline of the theatre, asks the editor to explain the reason why the “ Black Crook ” has run so long. The editor “ doesn’t know, but supposes it is on account of having so many legs,” An Irish advertisement: “If the gentleman who keeps a shoe-store with a red head will return the umbrella of young lady with the ivory handle, he will hear something to her advantage.” When deaf mutes are married they are sure to be unspeakably happy. What wine is both food and drink ? Port wine with a crust! Why is Yorkshire so celebrated for quiet horses ?—Because, though you may get three idings, you will only find one shier. It is of course not right for one human being to take the life of another, but there arc cases when aggravation reaches such a pitch that the gentlest soul may well be worked up to desperation, despair, and assault and battery. If there be one thing more than another which may reasonably inspire a man to deeds of blood, it is unpleasant reflections upon his hair oil. Therefore it is not with any great wonder that we chronicle the recent action of a sensitive being in England, With a deep-seated and atrocious malice, scarcely to be imagined by an ordinary mind, his wife derisively criticised the pomatum he put on his hair. Was it strange that the insulted and miserable man, in mere anguish of mind, should immediately pick up an old cutlass and sadly but firmly put an end to her?—“New York Tribune.”

A dog who already bore about his muzzle some not inglorious scars accompanied his master, who carried on his breast the Victoria Cross, to the Ashantce campaign. Being of the bull dog breed, and with a natural turn for fighting, ho distinguished himself on several occasions, and indeed throughout the campaign. In one instance he rushed into the enemy’s ranks, and, singling out one of his naked foes, so bit and worried him that he actually brought in his prisoner in triumph. He was such a favorite with the men that in a heavy engagement their lire was suspended for a minute to allow of his uninjured retreat from one of his desperate forays. Ho lives to enjoy Ids return and his honors, and at this moment is one of the greatest pets of Belgravia,