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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4332, 6 February 1875, Page 3

' “ Why are you so precise in your statement —arc you afraid of telling an untruth ?" asked a barrister of a female witness In a police-court recently. No, sir," was the prompt reply. TiiEitu Is ft ten-thousand- dollar South Jersey heiress who has so many lovers sitting on the fence, waiting for her to come out at night, that she has given her entire fortune to endow a lunatic asylum. The Turks have taken to writing opera bouffe, and a native comic opera has met with such success in Constantinople that aaecond work “Mckteb-Oustassi, “The Schoolmaster," Is announced. The pride of mankind is great. Recently a family in New York was awakened by unusual noises in the house, and, on turning out, saw the oldest hopeful rushing about In his suspenders brandishing a new Wesson, and shouting, “There's a man in the house r' Along search failed to show any foundation for the young man's warlike demonstration, when he mildly informed the breathless and exhausted tribe that it was his birthday. Ho was twenty-one,