NEW STORY ABOUT GENERAL GRANT.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1059, 8 April 1882, Page 4

NEW STORY ABOUT GENERAL GRANT.

It has just leaked out that while General Grant was travelling in Asia he expressed a desire to get a shot at a lion. Not wishing to expose him to any danger, the natives secured a stuffed lion, set it up in a jungle, and then took the illustrious traveller out for a hunt. When the beast was sighted the General was all excitement and crawling up to a favorable position began to biaze away at the animal, with no perceptible effect. After firing about twenty shots he began to get mad, and, taking off his coat, he settled down for a regular siege. Fearing his wrath when he discovered the sell, the attendants endeavored to induce him to give up the attempt to kill the beast, telling him it bore a charmed life, and that he could not possibly injure it. He told them to go to thunder, that he was after blood and was going to have it. After a vain fusilade of half an hour he rose to his feet, gnashing his teeth with rage, threw hie suspenders off his shoulders, rolled up his sleeves, and grabbed his rifle by the barrel, so that he could use it like a club. The attendants again begged him to desist, but he politely though forcibly informed them that he would have that cuss or Heave his honored remains strewn promiscuously all through that jungle, and with a wild cry of “ I’ll fight it out on this lion if it takes all summerl” he rushed upon the beast, and with one well-directed blow laid it over on its side. Then he chased the native attendants for six miles, but being better acquainted with the country they got away from him in safety.— Detroit Free Press.

“ Very odd,” said the compositor, as he stood mournfully gazing on a mass of pie, “ very odd, indeed. Stewed tripe for breakfast and strewed type for dinner I” The growing custom of wearing mourning for a deceased sweetheart should be discouraged. When half a dozen different girls suddenly appear in black at a young man’s funeral the situation is embarassing. Intelligence has been received that Captain Bosanquet of H.M.S. Northumberland, at present stationed at Cagliari, the capital of Sardinia, has been attacked and wounded by a marauder near that town, and robbed of what money and valuables he possessed. The robber succeeded in escaping.