MISCELLANEOUS.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2743, 7 January 1882, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

, v >. i has been cured in Ger* “Viffj creosote associated with jot toi.u, i 'o: ng man wants to protect v l’-/, ho naturally puts his ’i i o o her. *‘-a o reason the prejudice out m ii:.. wasn’t reasoned into him, u ejnji..v;he reasoned out of him. ,iv- ; rrri(;<!<■• heese was strong enough to ,• ■ ii ! ten prize at a fair in BirmingJ.cvt,:., I'.'.Ktfi’r. fid. I’ ;* .ft )ut vriago she was dear and he 'Vi:, hi i ir <isure, but afterwards she became dearer and be treasurer. When Ayooh Khan was defeated by the Ameer he fled to Herat. But now he cannot be found thereat. A Mormon never speaks of his better half, but of his better eighth or sixteenth as the case may he. Philadelphia sends out about 8000 commercial travellers. The worst thing about riches is the difficulty in acquiring them. The astronomers have detected a red •pot on Jupiter’s face. Jupiter should take the pledge. An Ohio girl who eloped with a married man was accompanied by her mother. The old lady went along to give a sort of a parental respectability to the affair. ||There are some experiences in life which make us feel like the boy who, when he_ stubbed his toe against a sharp stone, said ho was too big to cry and too badly hurt to laugh. One of the most disagreeable things in the world is the comparison of the “ I will ” at the marriage '•-erci''o J with the “ I won't ” after that event. She hit him hard—Spoony dry goods clerk to smart miss trying on a hat before a glass: “ Don’t I wish I was a lookingglass.” Smart miss : '* Yes, perhaps you’d get more girls to look at you then.” It is estimated that there are at present over 200 farms on which cattle plague exists in North and North-east Lancashire. All cattle affected with pleuro-pueumouia are at once killed.

A company for working tele* phono in tho principal countries of Europe has been registered at London under the title of the Edison GowerBell Telephone Company of Europe, capital £500,000. The “Jewish Messenger” proposes that tho Jews expelled from Russia should go to Palestine and begin the rebuilding of the ancient kingdom. Many a man thinks it is principle that keeps him from turning rascal, when it is only a full stomach. Be grateful and do not mistake potatoes for principles.' It is staled that the French have grown so enthusiastic over the scheme for tunnelling the Channel that the founders’ shares in the small company hare risen in value from £IOO to £2OO. An edition of “ Uncle Tom’s Cabin” for a penny may fairly claim a place among curiosities of cheapness. It is printed in triple columes on thirty folio pages. A Michigan man brought suit for divorce in the same week in which his son’s wedding took place. With commendable paternal solicitude he wished to set a good example before his offspring. He said he was a Chicago man. “No you are not!" said the landlord. “ How do you know I’m not ?” asked the man. “ Know P Why, when that man over there said London was the biggest city in the world, you did’nt rise up and call him a lying guttersnipe who never wash his face! You’re no Chicago man.”