MISCELLANEOUS.
Molly;' was telling an absurd dreairi, wlieh her mistress broke in with, You must have been asleep, when you dreamt such stuff as that." " No, indeed, ma'am," she replied, tartly ; " I was just as wide awake as I am this minute." . 1 Life and Limbs in the Highlands. —•Scotch Keeper: (to. young. Sportsman);: "Ye hae shot a boy."—Young Sportsman "" Good Heavens ! is it 'possible ? What shall I do!—-Keeper (immovably) : " Gie him a shullin'."
Everyone recollects the boy O'Connor who went with a broken and unloaded pistol to frighten, the Queen, into signing a pafdoii'for the Eenian prisoners, and who was sentenced to one year's imprisonment with hard labor, together with twenty-five lashes with the cat. That sentence was never carried out, for he did not receive any flogging, and his , term of imprisonment was reduced to eight months, at the expiry of which he. received an outfit from the Government, and was sent to Australia. He recently sent three letters in verses to the queen, and he regards those verses as incomparably better than any that our Laureate ever wrote, and that he is earning a small weekly salary by performing the duties of a clerk in some merchant's office. Some rather curious exhibitions on the billiard, table have from time to time been made, but the most curious—and it may be added, the most useless—of all these eccentricities took place on December 2» at the White Kose Tavern, Castle-street, Leicester square. There, before a large assembly, an American named Jefferson contended in a match of 500 up against the veteran Dufton. The latter, of course, played the game in the regular way, but the American employed no cue or other instrument, but actually struck the ball with his nose! Bending over the table ! he gives the object-ball .1 tap with the point or side of his nose, and in this way he succeeded in making cannons and hazards till he actually won the game. Like Izar, he replaces the striking ball, after every stroke, in any position he or from the object-
ball, according'to circumstances—and in this way he actually succeeded in pocketing the red from the spot nineteen times consecutively. . The exhibition was more remarkable than agreeable to witness,
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 265, 3 April 1874, Page 3
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372MISCELLANEOUS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 265, 3 April 1874, Page 3
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