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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 287, 4 September 1874, Page 2

The Scottish team won the Elcho Shield at the Wimbled m meeting; England, second; Ireland, third.- .- - ; A curious - instance of sornnambulency occurred at Adelaide recently. The 'Re'gister says that the attention of a police constable was arrested "one morning at. L o'clock by seeing a white figure, clad in a nightdress, walking rapidly down the 1 wharf frontage/ '' He immediately went in pursuit, and gently approaching, perceived it was a respectably-connected 'newly married young" womah, well known in the port, evidently walking in her sleep. , Ile then placed his hand oh her shoulder, and tried to to persuade her to let him take her home. At this time she awoke suddenly, and the terrible surprise to her in so doing almost caused derangement," the poor woman alarming the neighborhood witH her cries. After- a little time -she was taken home, suffering evidently from the exposure to the weather and the shock she sustained by her wakincr. fright. Said a lady to her husband during the late panic, " T am not afraid that we shall have enough to live on. I believe that we. shall, be provided for if we only trust in Providence." To which the husband replied, " Well, you'll divide'with the children, won't you ? and I will look out for myself the best I can." Old gentlemen (to party of Irish persuasion) : " Very well, then; you wiJJ come in the morning, and tidy up the garden a bit It wants doing very badly." Party of Irish persuasion : " Sure sir, if ye want it doing badly I'm just the boy for ye." —' Judy.'

" Veil, and vat to you sink tit happen at Madame Tussaud's de oder day? A lady dook me for van 'of de vax vickers, ar.d agJually abbollochised vor her mistake " " Oh, what fun Mr.' Sehmitz and was it in the Chamber of Horrors?"