MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 84, 20 December 1864, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

HOW A CtTBATE BECAME A E.ECTOE.— ; A Curate of a London parish, of most exemplary eoiiducfc yrds accustomed to remonstrate very freely with any of-" his people wliose'life was riot* whair it should' have J been. \ .They wished much' to get < fid of him but J j could find no pretext for complaint, either to the vrector or the Bishop. They therefore hit upon this cunning plan— -they drew up ancl signed a memorial to the Bishop setting .forth the , admirable ' character of tlie cixrate^' lamenting tliafc' his emincnfc worth sliqiild not be rewarded, and earnestly recoinending him to. preferments Soon 'after,' this very, living quite unexpectedly, became, vacant, ' whereupon the bishop, considering how acceptable as well as deserving, he appeared to be, •presented him with it, informing him of the memprial.; .The godd man thanked his people 1 with ~ tearful eyes,rejoicrng that they had taken in good part his ; freedom of speech, and assuring them that ho would continue all his life " the" "course, which had won their approbation. . An Estate in Taed. — Please of some interest is ',-■; likely .-toJbe brought under titie lattentipu*/pf tho j;.^ law courts,cbncerning a Chinaman's tail. It will-. .'•,_' be remembered that a Chinaman named^Ab Cliee prosecuted a woman Tnanied Johnsfon for assaulting him and cutting off his tail with a chopper.The tail was produced in court as part of the evidence, and was claimed by the prosecutor- after the trial. It seems that ilr. M'Haverty 1 , the attorney for the Crown, however, lias a female friend who, it appears is curious in tails, and he appropriated this one to present to her. Mr. M'Saverty maintains that the tail' belongs to 'the British Crown, while Ah Chee says it belongs to his crown, as being the " hair of Ms body lawfully begotten." Ah Chee, under these circumstances means to pursue Mr. M'Havcrty at law, or to lay his tale before the Governor. It Is' too bad to rob a poor man of' his tail in this barefaced manner. — O. and JS£. -Advertiser, October 27. ITOKEIGKK' IfOTIOSS OF Ejf GLISH "WeATHEB. — A the- Standard's correspondent m Denmark was travelling by rail^from Copenhagen to Elainore, h« ' got into conversation about the weather : — " Two" of the passengers who spoke a little English rather amused mo in their ideas of our climate. -Ono seriously assured thu other that it rained cats and dogo' sometimes in England, and tha.fc *ho had. so - read it. The other said he , had . likewise read of its raining ducks and drakoa ; .and they philoso-" , pliically accounted for tho , phenomenon ' by. supposing that the dreadful whirlwinds, which , sometimes prevail -in : Englan3.' must have -- : caught up these animals, which" in ' their descent were attributed to a rain of such things from- the sky. I was appealed to as-~to whether such showers did not fall, and I could only answer that I had certainly very often heard of them; but that 1 had certainly noC hai the good fortune I to hare' seen them I"