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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 165, 3 May 1872, Page 3

Grief and business have seldom, been more thoroughly mixed than in ~th& following obituary advertisement, which appears (of course) in an American paper: —" Othriiel Sitgreaves, we are sorry to stait, has deceased. He departed this last Monday. He went 4th without any struggle, and sich.is life. He kept a nice store which his wife now waits on: ' His virchews was numerous; and his wife inherits them. W"e are happy to state that he never cheeted, speshully in the wate of makerel, which was always nice and smelt sweet, and his surviving wife in the same. "We never new him to putsandinhis sugar, though he had a big sand bar in front of his house, nor water his lickers, though the Ohio river passed by his I door. Piece tu his remanes. Ha leves ! 1 wife, 9 children, I kow, 4. horses, a I grocer's and other quadroopeds to mourn his loss."

Billings As ; a Philosophee.—Most people cum fbr advice, cum tew have their opinyuns strengthened; not correckted. Take .the selfishness out of this world, and thare wo uld be more happiness than we should kno what to do with._ It don' show good judgment to he surprized at ennythingin this world, for thare iz nothing more certain than uncertainty.. Everyman thinks hiz nabqr iz happier than he iz ; ;but if he swops places with him he will want tew trade back next morning. A coquette in love iz az silly az a mouse in a wire-trap ; he don't seem tew kno exactly how he got in, nor exactly how he iz going to get out. All fights,.to produce enny moral advantage, should end in victory tew one aide or the other. Tu will alwus

see dorgs renew a drawn battle e verytime they meet. In consequence of some difficulty in arriving at an amicable conclusion in referance to political matters, in a Western bar-room, one of the parties, in the usual knife dispute that ensued, had his intestines cut out. A learned M. D. who had been called in, stated -the extent of the injury done in learned technicalities, peppered, with membranes, cartilages, epigastriums, <fcc, to extent so overpowering that one of his auditors, horrified at the description, rushed out, and meeting a friend, who asked him, "Is Jim much hurt?" replied, " Hurt! You bet he's hurt. Why-, all the Latin part of his bowels is clean out!" • " .

It appears from the last files of the Moniteur that gold mining in New Caledonia is still Being proceeded with, both reefing and alluvial, and that the yield and general indications are sufficient to keep the miners in heart to go on with the work and contraue the large .outlay necessary.