MISCELLANEOUS.

Globe, Volume I, Issue 73, 25 August 1874, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

People who are always wishing for something new should try neuralgia. The man most likely to make his mark in the world —one who cannot write his own name.

There is more flattery in an egg than in anything else. Nothing is so given to addleation.

A poetic Hibernian explains that love is commonly spoken of as a “flame ” because it’s a tender sentiment.

“Ah!” yawned a butcher, “this world is but a gloomy prison.”—“ To those in solitary confinement,” added a witty young lady. It is hinted that a woman in Connecticut, whose speech was lately restored after twelve years’ silence, is making up for lost time.

A pocket bootjack has been invented in New York. You put your foot into your pocket, give a spring into the air, and off comes your boot. An old gentleman in Virginia bought himself a residence < near the village buryingground, “so as' to have quiet neighbors who’d mind their own business,”

A justice at Vernon, lowa, wound up a marriage by saying, “ And I now send you to the county gaol for thirty days.” He was thinking of another case. Why do young people grow more when in love than at any other time ? Because then their affection and anxiety cause their sighs to increase so wonderfully. A sheriff in Florida, who was called upon to resign, wrote back :—“ Your communication is received, stating that my resignation will meet the approval of the Governor. II does not meet mine.”