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Grey River Argus, Issue 74, 3 July 1866, Page 3

A; fastidious old, lady; .who shrank from being betrayed into indecorousness of utterance, even in geographical nomenclature, always" spoke of "the chief city of Holland as Amster-fahem. • '}... ; . "My lad," said a Yankee schoolmaster, •'what is a member of Congress ?" 'f A member of .Congress is a common substantive agreeing with self-interest, and is gbverried by eight dollars a day, understood:" . Emily Ballard, a child' of ten, of Ilkberrbw, Warwickshire;* played during service time with some other children at some game with pennies. A child missed a penny, and Ballard, after counting her pennies, found she had one too much, and- returned it. The vicar, who is also a magistrate, actually sent her to, the/lock-up on a charge of ineft, and there she remained from Monday to. Friday. When brought before the petty sessions, Mr Gray, the real prosecutor, sat as magistrate, and the locality being much excited, graciously said he had only imprisoned, jbhe child aB a warning, and did not intend going on with the case. He. added that she had stolen a penknife before, a statement instantly denied. The child's friends, indignant at this treatment, refused to accept her discharge, and the case was adjourned for further evidence, the little mite being this time admitted; to bail. Imagine a magistrate sending a child to the lock-up for offerice.so slight that he, at once prosecutor, judge, jury, and pastor, did not even intend to pursue it ! It is odd, but jjjj is true, that in a case of this kind, that fis,' of downright cruelty on the highest moral principles, '■the' magistrate is sure to be. 'uj orders, I