MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume III, Issue 87, 9 March 1877, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.

■ last evening some wags, seeking to ■ arnnne themselves *t th« expense of other j people,, const meteA a "dummy" man, and after, placing it nt the corner of Sealey and JPollen- street* in the altitude of fen inebriated individual who had resolved to tnak» his 'OodaW* on the cold,- cold ground," disposed of themselves at convenient distances 10 see the fan. After k waiting some minutes an elderly gentle- ■ man was observed coining along, and W when Jib was ritbin about a dozen yards I of the soot, (he confederates appeared filled.wiih pity for the supposed drunken wan, while one of them converting his hal into a basin, rushed frantically to the staodpipe, and copionsly delaged the un« fortunate dummy, saying at the same time " Give him water! Give himwafer, quick I he'll soon come round. ' Jhe (elderly gentleman above referred to (as wonld any body else) rushed on the scene shouting "Give him sir." Hut stooping down to raise the poor fellow's bead, dis* covered his mistake and walked quickly •way followed by the peals of l«WJtf* of the wags. After several others bad been taken in to a greater or less degree, an official personage irreverently irreverently called br the practical jokers " Old Mull/ part of whose duty it if to take charge of inebriates, came up, probably with the intention of arresting the personage lying on the Atrer Sarinsfor i second or two he l«d his bands on the dummy, and discovering ftat be was the rictim of a joke ea« d ,. b » injured feelings by admiflistenng a kicfc to the pseudo drunkard. Whence turned round the wags had vanished.Thames Star. The Otago Times Edmburg correspondent writea . --Lieutenant Pflysr, the commander of the AnstwHunganan Polar Expedition has published bis account; of its doings, and in his very interesting narrative tells many stories flbout. tbe Ksqiimao* dogs. He dwells largely upon the incurable persistency with which the i<lo,g» wonld steal food and conceal it in i^e snow. One of them, however, '• with much jevity suffered himself to be made drank by the sailors with mm. Everything that he had scraped together for reeks and buried in the snow and carefolly washed, was stolen from him in fine night by the other dogs, which had kept sober. This reminds me that there I js a large black retriever which used to I haunt breweries and greedily driflk any ; peer or wort that was given him. The consequence was that he became quite fliwipaied in look, with a weak, shambling gait. Suddenly he Rpemed to "fak a tbobU and mend," for he visited the brewerje no more, unswervingly refused alt alcoholic liquor offered to him. and is now goin? about the streets of Edinburgh t yritb head and tail erect, as respectable 1 in appearanpe as any dog in the city, as I ft* can personally testify. P ___ . '

Jaandioed Views. The billious and fjj'spcptio Bubjecfc takes " j^iundiied views' pf every ihiag, always loots at tbe worst side. He bis despondent, gloomy, fall of forebodings, in pbort, a most wrftphed inditidaal. Let liim take heart of grace. There is a certain remedy for his depression, for bis gastric jtoftares, for all ibe ills that a disordered ftomach and li wr ' inflict. UDQtPHQ Wowb's SCHIIDAM ABOMATIC Sc^Xißi'B, taten thripe a day, will make a different man of him in a monlb.