MISCELLANEOUS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 157, 8 March 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

Physicians recommend young ladies to f form walking clubs. This is: a matter in which steps should be taken. . •Prince ' Eugei.e MaximilianOvitz and Priiici; SergiusMaximilianOviTS' Komanoffsky, of Leuchtc-nberg, have left .Russia on-a tour. : -<"

A sensitive old bachelor says that pretty girls always affect him just as ornamental confectionery does—they give him the heart-burn. i; - -

A Long Pebiqb.ee.— At Noblehill, Dumfries, July 26th, 1871, deeply regretted by his daughters, -Henry Abergavenny Wootoivaged 81 years and 4 mouths, youngest son of the eminent Dr ■ Wiiliam Wootort, ktiight," of 31 Brookes Street, G-rosvenor Square, London, arid hi s relict, wife of John Small, Esq., : ' Sheriff for Be rkshi re, daughter of Colonel Charles White, Ist G-uards grand-daughter of the Eight Hon' Stephen Poyntz, niece of the firstCountess Spencer, first cousin to the beautiful Duchess of Devonshire.— Medical Grazette. ' •

A lady in America sent her black servant to purchase some fresh fish tie went to a stall, and taking up a fish, began to smell it. The observing him, and fearing-the bystanders would see him, exclaimed. " Hollo, you black rascal! - what da you smell my fish 1 for ? ,J " Me':-no Jsuiell your: -fish, massa" " What'are you doinv,then, sir?" " Why, me talk to him, massa. v "And what did you say to him, eh ?" - "Why, me ask him what ntews at sea; dat's all, rnaissa.'' And- what- does he; sky to you?" "He says he don't know; he not Tseeirdere deae : tree weeks; " ■ j

Anecdote of a Eennieott, the great Herb raise, was aa ardent

"lover of figs; On the walls of-Hixeter College still grows a patriarchal .which in one particular year only produced only one fig. This. the Doctor watched assiduously from day to day, gloating over its. assumed substance and colour To prevent any interferwith his.'pet,' He fixed' a. card over itfcafew days before it. bearing the words " Dr Kennicott's fig.'' Alas I The very morning on which he hoped to feast on it, an irreVerant undergraduatestole it ; and worse-still,- reversing the card, left it where the fig should have been, with tlie slightly bhanged inscription, " A SgforDr Kennicott." Pond of Widows —The following story is related of an old mm of and. hig!3-moral standing in the community w'Vere lie livedT" It is said,. ? immediately following ;the death of his J).® donned his. coat, and: with a sVnilin r fa* e that indicated no taought of failure, summoned a widow" lady living in the neighbourhood to the door, and announced the news to her : : t*' >1 . injr'n', ma'am) I'm round tellin' folks how my old woman's dead. Don't know for sartin that I shall get married again. You are aware, (with a knowing wink), that I'm mighty fond of the widders" His fourth marriage hag been placed on record. 1 TftuE PRopiitfcnss. —Sir Walter Scott declared to Mrs Hughes that, many" years before; the event took - place, he had ear. lof a prophecy in the Sea forth family, uttered,.or said to have uttered, by a second-sig'Ued clansman more : a century -before, to the effect [• the (liusholra and the i ; IVaser jSisibh/ deaf, ahd the ; M'Paerson (M'Kenzie ?) born with a buck tooth, the male.line of the Eraser should become extinct, and that a whire-hooded lassie should com<} from. , ayont the sea and inherit" a*.' v All late Lgrd Seaforth's time, who, pn re- - verting to the .prophecy, sho\ved two - fine lads, his sons, to Sir Walter, and obst;rved K v After all's said and done, I think these boys will ding the prophet? after all;'' He was wrong, however. The two boys-died immediately before their fat her," and the present Lady tjood, a widow, came from India after his'decease, and inherited the property. The prophecy is said to have, included yel 'andther family misfortune, and to foretold that - the white hooded lassie (the widow's cap is"clearly alluded. to in the epithet) should cause the death of her own sister. This also came to pass. By the upset of a pony carriage which Mrs Stewart M'Kenzie (as Lady lio6d had become by marriage) was driving, her sister was instantan feotisly killed on the spot, and she herself mo fearfully iujured about the face as to be compelled to wear tor the remainder of her life a head-dress of a fashion which enabled her to conceal the greater part of her countenance under bands of black velvet.—The Life and Letters of the Rev, ltichard Harris Barham, author of the " -Ingoldsby Legends," &c. • A ; correspondent of a New' York paper relates a touching instance of insect kindness as follows : — 4l l found a cockroach struggling in a bowl of. ; I took half a pea-nut shell for. a boat;; I put him into it, gave him two wooden toothpicks for oars and left himThe next morning I visited him, and he had put a piece of white cotton thread on one of the toothpicks and set the toothphk up on end as a signal of distress. He had a hair on. T.he : other toothpick, and there that cockroach sat a-fkhing. The cockroach, exhausted, had fallen asleep. The sight melted me to tears. ; I never had to chew leather to get a soul. I was born-with one. I took that cockroach out, gave him a spoonful of gruel, and left. That animal never forgot that act, of kindness, and... now my house is choke-full of cockroaches." ' • <•.

Eive sistejs of mercy arrived by the ship-Star et* - intent tioh to found an?institution in Victoria.

£IOOO were refused the other day for/a quarter share in Ship's prospect-in#-claim, ' ...1

The 'Y7 Independent' understands that already a large number of applications under the water supply sections of the Public Works Act have been received, chiefly from the West -O J3 005.;5-J OTUiu.iicJiU£)..