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Southland Times, Issue 666, 6 May 1867, Page 2

"Mind yottb Company?' — We have bern informed that a short time ago a number of gentlemen were conversing in an hotel not half-a-dozen miles from Carmarthen. The subject _was a political one, and the conduct of John Bright was condemned in very strong terms. One of the company was a rather short gentleman, who did notr join in the discussion, but by-and-bye left the room. Calling the waiter to him, he said, "If any of the gentlemen in the smoking-room ask who I am, tell them that I am John Bright." "Yes, sir," said the waiter, seeing the joke at once. Sure enough, upon his entering the room, the man was a3ked if he knew who the gentleman was that had let. "The short gentleman who went out just now ?" " Yes." " Oh, that is Mr John Bright, M.P." The consternation of the party may be imagined, and they were not a whit more comfortable when " Mr John Bright " a^ain entered the room. livery one apologised, and the hon. gentleman graciously pardoned them all, remarking that he was so often the object of calumny that he was quite used to it. The practical joke was not discovered until' after the I perpetrator had departed. — " Carmarthen /ournal." Tolerably Touan. — An American was saying in company that he had seen a juggler place a ladder 1 , in open ground, upon oije end, and mount it by passing through the rounds/and stand upon tne top erect. Another who was present said he bad no doubt of it, as he had seen a man who - had done the same thing, but with this addition, that when he arrived at the top he pulled the ladder after him. The London gin shops, especially in the neighbourhood of St Gt-iles, are now displaying bills in their windows, inscribed " Feniew Cordial " «nd (f JECeal Feuiaii Wlusky,"