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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 23, 6 January 1877, Page 3

A friend of ours (says a London paper) related the following laughable incident, a few days since, which, serves to illustrate the different views which people take of affairs as regarding their importance and insignificance. Being the other day present at the scene of a railway accident, he noticed a man of the sporting school approaching the spot at a rapid pace,' his countenance indicative of anxious inquiry. Elbowing his way through the crowd, he asked, eagerly, "What's the matter? Say, what's goin' on?" — "A man has been run over and killed," was the reply. With a look of contempt at what he apparently deemed a set of ninnies to be attracted by such a matter, he ejaculated, "A man killed! Is that all? Why, hang it ! I thought it was a dogfight !" And turning on his. heel he left the spot instanter. Mr Hampdeh, whose belief m the flatness of the eavth has cost him so dearly, would seem to have a rival m monomania, according to the following advertisement from the "Times " :— . Discoveries.— The advertiser wishes to meet with a gentleman who would cover the expense for a scientific lecture to show the unknown Nature's cause of collisions of ships at sea, and the preventive of explosions m coal-mines ; also to prove there is not any heat passing from the sun to. thia earth, the leading feature, of all science.--" World."