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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 45, 19 February 1864, Page 6

Strange Be*d*fel*lows. — On Tuesday night, ' r cj a gentleman, after a long and wearisome-^! journey, returned to his home, wliich, by the '-J bye, is not blessed by the presence of petti- yl coats (we beg pardon, crinolines).) . After J vainly endeavoring to get a light, the tired , I traveller went to bed in the dark, and soon '-^-l foil asleep. In the course of the night he was *| repeatedly disturbed by an unpleasant tickling M sensation about his-ears and neckj'bufc was;too : i>l sleepy to get up to discover the cause. In the ,r;l morning liis horror may be imagined when he ll found a young centipede comfortably curled "*1 round in his ear. Never imagining that this 1 was not a single gentleman, he proceeded to r*■ dress, after dispatching ithe many-legged. ? I While combing his hair another of tho unwel*^, I come visitants dropped out,-and-~was imme- vX *fl diately slain. Beginning to -.think thafc he I might have intruded into a family party, the I pestered man raised his pillow, and beheld 'I there the mamma, wifch her sole remaining I joy. The little one escaped the vengeance of -I the centipede-haunted man, and the big ; one I waa caroiuUy liilled for measurement. It ■was I 4x inches long. That bed has been deserted I since. — Inglewood Sentinel, Jan. 30. • I A celebrated Parisian dandy was ordered ■ by his physicians to follow a course of sea - I bathing at Dieppe. Arrivejl afc thafc delight- I ful batliing town, Jie ordered a machine and- ■ attendant, and went boldly into the water. He M plunged in bravely ; but, in an instant after, n x I came up puffing and blowing. -" Francis,"* „■ said he, " the sea ■ smells detestably ;' ifc will M poison me. Throw a little eauide Cologne, M into the water,, or J shall be suffocated \" . H A gentleman, who liad been partaking ofthe H hospitalities of a farmer's house, 'heard his fl host say one day thafc he should like to taate H turtle, as he supposed 'it was very good. His fl guest, on returmng to town, senfc ham a turtle, H and heard many months afterwards that the present was not .productive of satisfaction; % -fl "for," said the farmar, "we boiled un in tßfl'H copper, wi' cabbage, for a matter o' seven |H hours, and then be war'nt done ! " ' 'Z The Southern correspondent of fche 2%>&f jfl states that the "hunger and thirst " for mohey^flj pervades the South; thafc the '"veiy air i*ljH corrupted by the presence r of fche hosts f^^B Hebrews and blockade-runners," -and that^H '.horse thieves, burglars, and occasional!^^B gar otters, swarm hi the streets of Richmond." *~S The Protocol ratifying the resignation <£, flj the protectorate, and the cession of fche Xofiian > HJ Islands to fche kingdom of Greece' by Grerf Britain, was signed, on the 14th November, ?BJ by the representatives of the five great Powers, the signatures standing in alphabetical order flj — 1, Austria ■ 2, Great Britain ; 3, France'; *flj 4, Prussia ; 5, Russia. ' -^M Minister Cassius M. Clay writes from St^flJ Petersburg to a gentleman in :— t 4l^_\ " They have granted me a telegraph line char* ]flj ter, the line to run from the , mouth of the Amoore River fco America. ' It will unite all 'flj the continents, and be the great work of the age. It will illustrate my mission to tW^^B country." A betting man, known hy the sobriquet c* -fll the "Hyde-Park Ranger," he , having JSK~°M sacted much of his busineßs,in a ring forme* .HJ /in Hyde-park, has " levanted" since fche CaJ»" jfll bridgeshire Stakes race was decided, and, it tf '~^H said, " his debts of honor" upon thafc r ß ** amonnt to £20,000.- t . -'BJ -' At a, court-martial lately, the f°*k«rJL^B dialogue is said to liave taken place betvw 1 ■■ i one of the witnesses and the court : — " Al* fll , you a Catholic ?"—-,' No, sir." " Are you* ■■ Protestant ? "— " No, 'sir." " What are J^ ;flj then ?" — " Captain of the foretop." After one ofthe last operations of a C^/^B brated surgeons, fche resident student stow *MH lookingafc the two pieces of mortality lyin£ *™ flfl fche surgeon's table.. "What are you *>** sir?" sharply^asked the surgeon. , .^^^H waiting for you to point out which piece « W *■■ .be put fco feed and wluch'is to be'buried. 'fll