DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Globe, Volume IV, Issue 378, 28 August 1875, Page 4

DE OMNIBUS REBUS.

Women like to marry men of the name of William, so that they can have a Will of their own. A prosperous merchant has for his motto : "Early to bed and early to rise, never get tight and advertise." A man at a hotel complaining of the diffisulty of getting waited upon, the clerk replied, " Of course you must expect inn attention here.' It is a rule of etiquette in Arkansas that no true gentleman will sit with his legs thrown over the back of his neighbour's chair if he can help it. The other morning a musical critic, speaking of the vocal powers of a songstress, said, 'We ' hang'upon every note,' which shows that the singer must have great powers of execution. A poor old man in a country village had been in the habit of receiving from the minister of the parish a pint of milk daily. At his death the old m>n left a will, in which he bequeathed the daily pint of milk to his brother. The dignity of a Georgia court having been affronted by an applauding spectator, the judge somewhat vehemently remarked : ' ' Now dry it up ; 1 will let you know that this is no camp-meeting for exuberating your enthusiasm; the court shall be respected at the risk of outraging the seventeenth commandment to the constitution ; and if you open your fly-trap, or pat-a-pat with them number fourteen brogans of yours again, I'll send you to gaol for thirty days." '' Ten thousand Cabanas, Cabargas, Intimiclads, Partagas, Upmari, and Zumala cigars, and ten thousand cigarettes," is the announcement in the latest sale catalogue issued by Messrs Christie and Manson. This enormous quantity of tobacco belonged to the late Earl of Yarborough. A curious slip occurs in a catalogue issued a short time ago by a well-known bookseller. A work on Xylography—block printing at the beginning of the 15th century —is catalogued, which is said to contain '' sixty-nine engravings either from wood or metal, twelve of which bear inscriptions representing scenes of Christian mythology, figures of patriarchs, saints, devils, and other ' Dignitaries of the Church.' " They have a new way of hatching chickens in the West, by which a single maternal fowl is made to do the duty of a hundred. They fill a barrel with eggs and place a hen on the bung-hole. Either Profane or Religious.—Elder Sister —What are you doing, Bill ? Bill—Drawing Jack the Giankiller 'n' Cormoran. Elder Sister—Do you think this is quite a Sunday amusement ? Bill—Oh, very well then; its David 'n' the Giangoliaf. Mac, a lame grocer, wanted to be enrolled in a volunteer corps. "You'd never do, Mac," said the officer to whom he applied for admission ; "the more we told you to march, the more you'd ' halt.' "