MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 181, 23 August 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Pennsylvania paper tell us of a local pr »acher who has received for salary this venr nothing but a curpy-. comb, a keg of varnish, and two'dozen clothes pins. Whenever his children cry.; with 'hunger he gaga them with a clothes •• pin. scratches their stomachs with a currycomb, and lays on a coat ot'varais The Missing- .Line:—The Lowest TrpE of HuaiAsrrßY. On the island of Borneo has been found a certain race of wild creatures, of which kindred varieties have been ill the Philippine Islands, in. Terra Fuego, and in South America. . They :'walked usually, alaiost ereot on two legs, and in that attitude measure about four feet in height. They are dark,, wrinkled, and hairy. They coni struct no. habitations, form no families scarcely associate-."together, sleep in caves and trees., feed on snakes and vermin; on ants, eggs; and on each other. Tiiey cannot be tamed or forced to-any labor, and are hunted and shot among ■the; trees like the great gorilla) of which they are a stunted'copy. "When captured alive, one finds with, surprise that their uncouth jabbering sounds like articulate language.- Tiiey turn up a humau face to gaze at their captors, and females show instincts of modesty ; and, in fine these .wretched beings are men. A. German, while crossing the Alleghany mountains during the winter, states " Dat ven gom' up de monataing his foot slipped -hi mon the ice and he coom down on the broad of his back mit his face sticking in de mud,i and dere he shtood." . The new . G-oldfie3ds Committee-of the Legislative Council consists of the following gentlemen :—The Hon. Mr i Chamberlin, the Hon. Captain Eraser,the Bon. Mr. Waterhouse, the Hon. Mr. Bonar, the Hon. Mr. Sewell, the Hon. Mr; Farmer, the lion. Mr. Lahmrnn, the Hon. Mr. Edwards, and the llou. Mr. Miller. '!