MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 110, 14 April 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Presbyterian Chinaman lately bad His daughter baptised by a name which, translated, means," You-ought-to-have-been-a-boy." During an examination a m«dical student was asked the question, " Where does mortification euHiier'" and replied, " When you [>op tho question and are answered 1 ISTo.' " Housewife a Motto. —Whatever thou dust, dust it with all thy mighi;.. A. " gentleman about town "Jin one who pays cash for except his debts, i " A. charitable society," nays tho ' Bourse Gazette,' of Beriin, u lias been formed in this city with no other resources than the ond» of cigars thrown away by smokers. With the produce of those demised remuiints it has been able to clothe completely nixteen poor children, and even to give them some toys and sweetmeats at Christinaa.''

The Marquis of Bute one day, taking a walk in Auohiuleck, Ayrshire, observed a herd boy whistling with groat vivacity near the roadside." When ho came up to rhe place he asked the boy if he had had his. dinner; the boy answered that he had. ■' And what did: you have?" said the other. " Brose," said the hoy. " What is that F" said the Marquis. u Od, won," said the boy, ye dinna ken gude meat;!"

Earthquakes.—Plato, in the Timmaeus, speaks of a vast island, larger than Lybia and Asia combined, that, nine thousand vearH bet'or.3 his time, had its kings, priests, soldiers, arts, guardian gods, and goddesses. This thickly-peopled isle, or, more properly, continent, owing to a tearful earthquake or some violent concussion of nature, sunk in a single night into the ocean and disappeared for ever.