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Globe, Volume II, Issue 132, 2 November 1874, Page 3

A Yankee paper has discovered that hogskin and cowhide bags hold ten times as much corn as canvas bags do, and cost only about one-tenth as much to get to market. The corn should be put into bags before the skins are taken off" the animals. Cross-examining a witness, a barrister asked, “AVere you not, on the night on which you were robbed, in such a state of vinous excitement as to preclude the possibility of your comprehension of your situation with that accuracy and precision necessary to a delineation of the truth ? A couple of neighbours became so inimical that they would not speak to each other ; but one of them, having been converted at a camp meeting, on seeing his former enemy held out his hand, saying, ‘‘How do you do, Kemp? I am humble enough to shake hands with a dog.” . . .Josh Billings says ; “ Herrings inhabit the sea generally; but those which inhabit the grocery, alwus taste to me as though they had been fatted on salt. They want a deal of freshening before they’re eatin, and also afterward. If I ken have plenty of herring for breakfast, 1 generally make the other two meals out of water. A witty lady says of the people" of a university town, ‘ ‘ They are very pleasant, very intellectual, very delightful in a sort of way; and talk to you like so many books ; but when you approach them socially, they all climb into their genealogical trees as though they were frightened. ” When the late Marquis of Lausdownc paid a visit to his estates in Ireland, he met with a Mr AY , who occupied a large farm of his lordship ; and understanding that he was hastening home to the christening of one of his children, his lordship very frankly offered himself to be his guest, The other, bowing very respectfully, replied, that he could not possibly accept of the honour intended him; that Ids friends, who were assembled on the occasion, were all honest, plain-speaking men, and, as such, could not bo lit company for his lordship.