MISCELLANEOUS.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 337, 20 August 1875, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

iflß "Iron Duke's " DeCtsion..— Dr.Sumner was in Hatchard's, and said to a clergyman whom ke met there, "I have a note here to wait upon the Diilte of Wellington. Tell me where he lives" He wentj was back in about ten and the clergyman was still there. : . "You haVe soon'got your besiriess oyer." "Yes, and in so shor; a time I am promoted to the see •of Chester. I was shown into a room. In came the Duke :— c Are your Cr. Sumner? lam commanded to offer you the bishopric of Chester." Do you accept ; or. not V' ' Yes.' . ' Then put your name down there. Good morning.' and he left me." A witness-was examined before a judge in a case of slandder, who required bam to repeat the precise words spoken, The witness, fixing his eyes earnestly on the judge began May it please your honour, you lie, and steal, and get your living by cheating." The face of the judge. reidened, and he exclaimed:—" Turn your head to the jury when you speak." A correspondent, writing from Northern Minnesota, on the 20th Feburary, says that, notwithstanding the severity of: the weather and depth of snow in that region, he saw a: cowslip in the open air the day before. The cow was on the ice. A Talk op a. Dog.—The ' Morning Post' says a dog, who already bore about his muzzle some not inglorious scars, accompanied his master, who carried on' his breast the. Victoria Cross, to the Ashantee I campaign. Being of the' bulldog.breed, and with a natural turn for-fighting,- he: distinguished'himself on several occasion's, and indeed throughout the campaign. -In one instance he rushed into the enemy's ranks, and, singling out one of ~his naked foes, so bit arid vvbrried him that he actually, brought in his prisoner ,in triumph. He was such a favorite with ;the. men that in a heavy engagement their 'fire was sus- I pended for n a minute to allow; of his unin- I jur<=d retreat from :one of his desperate I forays. He lives to enjoy his 'return and I his honors, arid at this moment is one of j the greatest pets of Belgravia. i r The Japanese in. Europe—There •are at present still about a 'hundred of the i young Japanese sent to Europe at their Government's expense for their education, staying at Berlin.. They have* however, received summary orders to-re-turn to their own country in the course of next month, unless _they prefer continuing their, studies at their own expense.'. The reasons adduced for .;this disappointing i summons are the political .disturbances in; i Japan, the difficulties many Japanese- ex-; i perience" in resisting the unaccustomed cli-; mate, and their failure, for the most part,'; to realise the expectations of their rulers. Among,those .about .to .return. is-.-Dzusi,': Who was baptised at Berlin,'arid has since; joined the Prussian cadet school, intending to pass through 'the "ordinary course of. military training in order toiritroduce'-Prus-i sian discipline into the' Japanese army.