MISCELLANEOUS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 120, 16 June 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

A Beggarman's Idea of Vermicelli Soup. —A. beggar called at a gentleman's door in Edinburgh, one afternoon' and requested something to eat. The family had had vermicelli soup for dinner, a plate of which was offered. The old man, however, mistaking the vermicelli for " the other little white fellows," stirred it several times with his spoon, and looking imploringly in the lady's face, said, " I'm a puir auld man, and very thankfu' for onything ye'll gie me, but really, mem, I couldna eat maughs."

A New Orleans paper says : —A col* porteur opened the door of an Irishman's shanty in the Second Municipality, and putting in his head, ma very pious tone asked the owner of the domicile, who happened to be in at the time, " if he would accept of a tract o the Holy Land," meaning, of course, an essay on that interesting portion of th© world. " Yis, bejabers," was the reply of the Hibernian, " a houl section if you give a good title deed. But I should like to know if there is much of it paairie, or if mow selilers aiv subject to the ague there?" Here is a recipe to get rid of an acquaintance whose society you do not like : —lf he is peor lend him some money ; if he is rich ask him to lend you some Both means are certain.