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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 51, 4 March 1864, Page 5

Aii editor of a Yankee newspapei- says that be never dotted an i but .once in his life, and that was in fi fight with a contemporary. It is perfectly natural that physicians generally should have a greater horror of tho sea than anybody else— because they are most likely to see sickness. The man who imagined himself wise because he detected some typograpical errors in a newspaper, has been trying to get a perpendicular view of the rainbow. An old bachelor says that he has received a basket of peaches this season that look ns though pretty girls had watched thoir growth, and tinted them with their blushes. 'Bob,' said a young fellow to his companion, at afancy fair, 'you are missing all the sights, on this side.' 'Never mind, Bill,' retorted . Rob, 'I am sighting all the misses on the other. When Cromwell first coined his money, an old cavalier looking upon one of the new pieces, read this inscription on one side, ' God with us ;' on the other, ' The Commonwealth of England." 'I see,' said he, * God and the Commonwealth are on different sides.' ' Ah, Jemmy,'- said, a sympathising friend to a man who was just too late for the train, ** you did not run fast enough. "Yes, I did,' said Jemmy, j ' i ran fast enough, but I did not start soon I enough."