MISCELLANEOUS

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 311, 12 February 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS

The last instance of originality in a narriagH amiouncementia the following : ' Xo c^vrjis. ; no cakes, no fuss."

An lowa gentleman recently, shot a postmaster for refusing to lick it postage istamp for the amiable and accomplished shooter ;

l p art?nts whh twins "might take a prac tica! hint from the fact that " Chang and in the Siamese language mean right and left. ...

A M iciiigair newsdealer. recently -re* ceived this order from a young lady.— " Sethi me a Novel catted buffalo Bi!-,and the dai 5 doins

A woman is composed of two huudred and forty-th re? bones, one hundred and sixty-nine. -muscles, .and. three hundred sixty-nine pins.

Providence men sit on -their.: overcoats when they go to the theatre, and thus avoid the necessity of stretching their necks to over the ladies' hats.

Indianapolis boasts, ot a versatile divinity student who preaches.in English, prays in Ar.iienian, singf. in Turkish, and holds his tongue in eleven other languages. They have a stuffed three-eyed cat in the curiosity room'of a city guild, arid' the chairman asks the visitor who sees" "the curiosity, for the first "Mow is that for eye ?" At a debating society at Liberty-, Wis - mnsin, one of the oratorsgot so excited that a revolver in his coat-tail pocket went off and shot "R.,. Tate in the leg That closed the debate:

. Two prisoners were lately acquitted of a theft. '1 he circuit judge told them not to come there again; or they might not be so fortunate One of the prisoners said,; " No, my lord ; we should not ; have come now if we had not been brought."

Steak g Kits paying a visit to Dunedin are often at r. loss to know what- is'the'best.establishment to visit for the purchase of drapery, and clothing ITerbert, BTaynes, and Co. offer xpenin] advantages to the public that- can be inef- with nuvvhere : else in the city They kef p at all times the largest" and best assorted stock of every class of goods, , imported direct fiom the leading manufacturers and warehousemen at. home, which, being bought entirely upon cash terms . they.'are enabled- to offer goods- of such sterling value as cannot be equalled by any other house in the trade. Every s r'.iole in stock is marked at a fixed price for re:idy money, from which no abatement is ever made-, so that the most, inexper-i'-need buy their goods at the same prices as the best judges. Their. terras are—net rash, without discount or reductions of any kind.— Anvr."

H.ulloway's Ointments and Pills:—Notabl* Facts.—lntense :heat; augments the annoyuncw of skin ..disease-i and -encourages the development of febrile Hisorders ; wherefore thrv should, as they'may, berenioved hy these detergent and purifying preparations. In stomach complaints,' liver affections, paina and spnsms of the bowels,; Holloway's unguent well rubbed oyer the effected pari immediately the. greatest ease, prevents congestion and inflawTT>ation, checks tho threatening diarrhoea and averts incipient cholera The i poorer- inhabitants of' large cities will find I ■ these remedies to be., their best friend. when, any pestilence rages, or when from unknown causes eruptions, boils,, abscesses or ulcerations betok--n the presence of. taints :or impurities.within the system, and - cull for instant-and effective curative medicines.