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Southland Times, Issue 668, 10 May 1867, Page 3

TT-RATt, HEAB!r-?3heridan once succeeded adTnirably in entrapping a noisy member, who was in the habit of , interrupting every speaker with cries of " Hear, H^ar." He took an .opportunity to allude to aweU^known political character p£ the time, who wished to play the rogue, but only had sense enough .to play the fool. *• Whew shall we find a more foolish knave or a more knavish tfool than this?" "Hear hear 3" was instantly bellowed "from" the accustomed bench. The wicked \wit bowed, thanked the gentlemen for his ready reply to the question, and sat downj amid the convulsions of laughter, of all but the unfortunate subject , . . .. ; .- ;-. Cubiosities or Teansiation.— ln the original translation of "Guy Mannering," the "prodigious Dpmine," i^ealled " un ministre assassine," a literal rendering of the " stickit minister :" and again in the same novel, when Dandie Dinmontis told that "it has just chappit aucht on the Tron," the translator has rendered it " il est huit heures, etleroi est but eon trone," — V. T. Sxebkbeg-. " Prom Notes and Queries, "What is the best way to curb a wild young man? To bridal him. ■ Why ore, persons born blind unfit to be ear* pente?s, .Because they never aaw.