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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 289, 12 September 1874, Page 3

The cremationists say that they can burn your body and hand you the ashes, neatly done up in a paper bag,-for the small sum of two dollars. A novel watch has been invented by a Swiss watchmaker of A.argau, the 'Continental Herald' tells us. The motive power is compressed air. A widower compares marriage to a besieged fortress. Those who are outside would like to "be within, those who are inside would like to be without. A curious collection of letters will shortly be sold in Paris—the love correspondence of the Due de Richelieu, the great lady-killer of the eighteenth century. Stanley's text, when he preached to the newly-married Duke and Duchess of Edinburgh', was: —"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they dp."

" Tou Ao not need to • blaek your boot* in Pittsburg." says a traveller. "You hang them out of the window at night, and they are black enough inthe morning." -^ To cure dyepepsia\ Close all: the* outer doors of a four-storey housei? open the .inner doors, then take a. long' switch and chase a cat up. andi down sfairß till she sweats. , .

" Gome, Bill, it's ten ©Mock, and I think we-had. better be going,, for it is time honest. men .were at home." "Well, yeß,"vwas the answer, " I''must be off, but you needn't hurry on that account. 1 ' \

A hardy seaman,, who had escaped one of the recent shipwrecks upon our coast, was asked? by a jjood lady how he telt when-the waves broke over him. *' Wet, ma'am, very wi-i," J.e replied.

Boston claims to have a diamond rhij* which once belonged to >% Isaac ; NewtonJ That is nothing, "| ouia ; .has a bad pencil with \vmch- r sttialij--elu'cked oft' the, animals that went intoc - the Ark. *". " "" " -