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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XIII, Issue 586, 15 June 1868, Page 2

“So you are going to birr a school ?”j raid a young lady boa maiden aunt. “Well, i for my part, sooner than do that, I would marry a widower with nine children.”—“l would prefer that myself, ” was the ip.ujt reply; “ but where is the widower?"’ Pkolitic StiEKi'. —On the farm of Jlr T. P. Brown, at Bay don, Wilts, during tiie short space of six hours, in the i igtit of the 6th inst; thirteen ewes gave birth toj twenty»niue iambs ; twelve two each, and one five ; all perfect, alive, and doing well. —Devises Gazette. “ What are you doing there ?—turn your j pipe the other way,” cried a fireman to a volunteer, who, while a pub ic house was "burning, was drenching with water a pari of the building which was not even menace d by iiames. “ it’s ali very well,” replied the amateur, keel ing up a well-directed fiood from his hose, “ but behind that parlor door’s my score, and 1 mean to wash it out.” Worth KxowrxG-.—A physician at one of the Paris hospitals has just cured a case of delirium tremens brought on by excessive drinking, by the singular l-cmcdv o! subjecting the patient to the constant hiinience of the vapor of spirits. The plan is net new, leaving been long used in Sweden to radically cure ciruukeune.s. Ti.c persons addicted to drink ere shut un m a cell, and all (he 10r..) supplied th >m i- impregnated with brandy. At the end of, four or five days they hcco no i.\ uipleu-h disgusted will, Ihe t.; si e and =:mi:, m.n they come out radically cure 1. T;.c digh'est ifPeil P 4 spin!- at last makes them sh under.