MISCELLANEOUS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8166, 22 April 1895, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

The leanest horfio on record (says Monday's "Wellington Post) figured in a crueliy caso in tho Magistrate's Oourt this morning. One witness fi escribed it aa "a frame of a horse," whilo tnobher, wlio was asked if h had bled, as a result of tho ill-treatmnto it had received, said ho did not think it ould blood. Its owner h»d boon exhorted by a wayaido wag to "pet down and push it." in tho up-country town of Sc^rsdalo, in Victoria, the mayor and the local constablo camo to a disputation over a drunkon prisonor tho constablo was locking up. Tho upshot was that tho cont?ublo lockod up tho mayor, and the dispute continuing after he was bailed out, locked him up a second time. Tho local police magistrate has adjudicated on tho dispute, and fined thorn LI each. Mr James Gordon Bennett, the projector and foundor of the Now York Jlorald, cared far nothing but newHpapers. lln seldom read anything except tho Herald and itn numerous exchanges. Onco ho acknowledged, as a boy, ho had ' | road Sir Walter Soott's works, but had ' forgotten them. Somotimes, when referonce was imdo to character in Dickens, Mr Bonnott would ask, '* Who is Sam Wollor ?" cr " What do you mean by saying sas stiflf aa Mr Domboy V " When told he would laugh and say, " I must ro<td Dickons some day," Mr Ben Davios, the nopular tenor, is greatly to be envied. Shortly after his return from America ho found awaiting him a gold watch bearing the inscription, •• From tho Queen, 1894." Still moro recontly ho received a laigo photograph of Her Majesty signed with tho Royal autograph, and accompanied by a letter from Major Biggs, asking him to accept it " as a souvenir of (ho ao/eral occasions when llor Majesty has had tho great pleasure of listoniug to your singing."

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