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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 200, 10 January 1866, Page 3

The following is the state of H.M. Gaol for the week, ending Tuesday, the 9th current. Sentenced to penal servitude 7 males, sentenced to hard labor 5 males, lunatics 5 males, 1 female, committed for trial 2 males, total 19 males, 1 female. Received during the week, 2 males. Discharged during the week, 2 males, A Stump Obatob. — An Ohio stumper, while making a speech, paused in the midst of it, and exclaimed, " Now, gentlemen, what do you think ?" Instantly a man rose in the assembly, and, with one sye partially closed, modestly replied. " I think, sir — I do indeed, Bir — I think if you and I were | to stump the country together we could tell more lies than any other two men in the country, sir ; and I'd not say a word during the whole time, air." — The American Joe Miller. A Eew SniPiE Questions. — Did you ever Isnow anything used as a comparison to trembling but an aspen-leaf? Did you ever see the chains which are said occasionally to bind the freeborn mind? Did you ever. light your cigar with the flanies of love ? Was ever your face browned by the sunshine of prosperity ; or have you been obliged to resort to an umbrella by the dark clouds of adversity ? Did you ever see an alabaster brow, an adamantine soul, an icy heart, or an iron frame ? A G-ENTiEHAitf who had long been subject to the nocturnal visitation of thieves in his orchards, wishing to preserve his property without endangering any one's life, procured from an hospital the leg of a subject, which he placed one evening in a steel trap in his garden, and next morning sent the crier round the town to announce that " the owner of the leg left in Mr 's grounds last night, might receive it upon application." He was never robbed again. Kot long ago, an English sa ;i .or fc'lled the wife of a Chinaman by accident, an event which gave him considerable uneasiness. The woman's husband hearing of the circumstance, came to the yessel, and, after some talk, offered to make it up with the man, compromising the affair for thirty dollars. The sailor was glad to escape so easily, and paid the money, when the Chinaman said, "It did not matter so much, as she was an old wife, and he could get a new one for twenty-five dollars, which would leave five dollars to buy rice." In a criticism of the Royal Academy by Tom Taylor in the Shilling Magazine, is the following anecdote concerning one of'Millais's pictures : — A lady and gentleman were standing before a picture by Millais, which most of our readers still remember, called " Trust Me," in which an elderly squire confronts his daughter, who holds a letter behind her back. The picture admits of more explanations than one, for Mr. Millais has that rare faculty of putting blended expressions into his faces, which often puzzle us, as the expressions of real faces do. But the one this gentleman was overheard giving his companion is as new, we will be bound to say, to the painter as to our readers. " You see," he said, " she has got a letter in her hand, which she is keeping back from the man in the red coat. Well, he is the postman, and has just given her the letter ; I suppose it's from abroad. She hasn't the money to pay the postage, so she says, ' Trust me" 1 The explanation was given with perfect gravity, and in apparent good faith. It was grate* fully accepted in the same spirit .• and the lady seemed proud, of her companion's intelligence in so rapidly reading the ricldle, *