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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 48, 20 September 1864, Page 3

The Paths Calcrart. — " Since the day," says the Figaro- Programme, " when the last of the Sansons was able, as he so philosophically expresses ifc, to give himself the satisfaction _of really -washing his hands and writing his memoira, fche executioner in Paris has been M. Hendereich, who resides in a handsome house on the Boulevard Beaumarchais. The person who lives on fche same floor with him is the actor Lafcrriere, who salutes his neighbor on the. stairs, thinking him a private citizen. M. Hendereich has living with him a youth of 15, whom he is having educated at one 'of the colleges. The lad calls M. Hendereich his uncle, and is not aware that the latter is an executioner. The youth is also ignorant thafc he himself is the son of a condemned prisonci-, .and that he was taken care of from charity by the man who had been charged to execute his father. " Very kind of the Figaro thus to enlighten these unsuspecting persons. A little boy in Chicago, liaving been lately left to take charge of the baby, failed to keep it quiet, and hit upon the happy expedient of sitting on a pillow, with which he had first covered the child's head. The mother returned just in time to rescue the infant Desdemona from death. Staring at Ladies. — A very common form of vulgar impudence is the staring at ladies. To do so in any public place is ungentlemanly, but to avail one ' 3 self of a vicinity which circumstances render unavoidable, is contemptible. The man who will stare continually at a lady, deserves a • whip. Ignorant young men do this, under the impression that ifc is not really disagreeable to the other sex, and that they aro, in fact, paying a species of compliment. Could they know the vexation and annoyance masked under the air of calmness with which their insolence is received, they would think differently. A Yankee thus winds up a notice to correspondents : — " In kenklusion, fustly, we would sa tv moste writers ' write often and publish seldum.' Secondly tv sum writers, ' write seldum and publish seldummer.' " A man hearing of another who was an hundred years old, said contemptuously, " Pshaw ! what a fuss about nothing. Why, if my grandfather was alive he would now be a hundred and fifty years old." Many a judge has passed hundreds of sentences, who could never parse one. 5-