MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2550, 24 May 1881, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Some little time ago an American gold-digger’s wife sued for a divorce on the ground of cruelty—her husband would not buy her gloves. But the District Court decided that coverings for the hands were not “ necessaries ” for the spouse of a man who habitually fried bacon on a shovel, mended his clothes with old flour-sacks, and ate his pork and beans off the lid of a tin billy in which he boiled his tea. A Chicago paper tells of a man who was complaining that he had invested a large sum of money on the Stock Exchange and lost it all. A sympathising friend asked him whether he had been a bull or a bear. He replied, “ Neither ; I was a jackass.” Thirty-one men and women are on trial at the Grenville, 0., on a charge of conspiracy to murder. Jacob Long opened a beer saloon in the town, and the Palestine Crusaders, a total abstinence society, drove him away. He boldly returned, and was informed by a paper stuck upon his door that his life would be taken if he sold a drop of beer He presented proof to a grand jury that the threatening document bad been voted by the crusaders, and they were jndicted.