ST. BATHANS.-Sept. 12.

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ST. BATHANS.-Sept. 12.

Resident Magistrate's* Court. ! (Before fl. W. Robinson, Esq., R.M.) ! Keenan and Morgan v. Watson, foi ■ balance of IO U, £8 lis.; Keenan and Morgan v. Robertson, for amount of i lOU, £9 95.; and Keenan and Morgan v. M'Sweyn, amount of I O IT, £9.—The three cases lapsed, the hearing baying been fixed for the 9th Sept. E"ew summonses issued for September 30. Warden's Court. (Before H. W. Robinson, Esq., Warden.) Mining Lease Applications.—J. Johnstone and Company, two acres; United • M. and E. Company, four acres. Agricultural Lease Applications. Louisa Beek, forty-sis acres, Blackstone district; James Milwarci; 190 acres, Blackstone district; F. G-. Dalgety, 548 acres. Protection.—United M. and E. Company. Modern Industry.—A Vienna journal contains the following announcement:— | " Anna Agrikol, sick nurse, watches dead j bodies, repairs straw chairs, applies ! leeches, and makes pastry desserts and delicacies/'—' Medical Record;' , Tearful eyes are considered to be a ■; beauty in girls of a gashing kind. In ; view of this, a New York chemist, who j deals in cssmetics, has invented an application which produces the desired tender j effect. j Things have come to such a pass in , Tennessee, that it is now cheaper for a j man to go to work and buy a horse than steal one. A Small Parish.—Mr. Stansfeld, in his speech on the union of parishes in England, said there was one parish in Yorkshire that contained only*one old woman, a pig, and a donkey ! A teacher, in struggling to make a tough-brained boy understand what conscience is, finally asked, "What makes you feel bad after you have done wrong ?" "My papa's big leather strap," feelingly replied the boy. A consequential young fop asked" an aged country sexton if the ringing of a bell did not put him in mind of Iris" latter end. "No, sir," replied the grim old gravedigger; "but the rope puts me in mind of yours." The enterprising vagabond who is organising a brass band of twenty women says that, they learn half as many " airs" as they put on, the experiment cannot niil to be a success. Some people are always bragging of their ancestors, and their great'descent, when the fact is, their great descent is wnat's the matter with them. ings.'