MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Issue 887, 24 January 1868, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS EXTRACTS.

Tawmhg.t— Should a Moslem; when praying,. fee.l himself disposed . to gape,, he; is. (ordered to., suppress, the sensation as the wort of the devD, and ta close his mouth, lesfc the father of iniquity should enter and take possession of, h*s parson. It is curious that this opinion prevails also among | the Hindoos, -who twirl their fingers close before; their mouths, when gapinpr, to prevent an levil spirit from getting in that way.— Griffiths..-. - Gbkitds.— r" Mary, where's the frjins-pan?" " Jemm.v'a got it, carting mud up the court, with the cat for a horse." — "The dear litilo fellow, what a : genius he will make ; but go and get it j ■we're going to 'have company, -and must fry some fiih for* dinner. ■'■^"■- ■ ■' ;'■ '' A correspondent mentions an amusing anecdote' offLordGflaegowy whioh, it is said he" himself tells with great- gusto; "'Some short - tune ago 'he had ' occasion to travel from London to Glasgow, and, on taking his ticktt'at the- booking-office "of the 1 railway station he tendered a £10 note in payment. 'Before giving change, the clerk, in accor- j dance with the custom, requested him- to endorse the note with his name, and on his Lordship's complying with the mandate, and returning the note to the official, the latter after a contemptuous glance at the signature "Glasgow," tossed it back to the owner, exclaiming indignantly," wi'-h ! the air of a man.'.whose time waa too precious, to be trifled with, '" Put you?': own :: nanie ' tb : it and not the name of the place you want to go to, you old fool!" The denouement, as the;penny novels have it, is better imagined than described. ' . A bashful young man one evening escorted ah equally' young lady honie;' "Ai they approached the dwellhig of the damsel she said, entreatingly, " Jehial, don't tell anybody .^you beau'd me home." "Sally," said he, emphatipally, "dont you : fear-^-Fm as much ashamed 6f it as .you are.— .••■■"■■:■ ■■ ■ ■ •■-„.- ■ •:■-■■■ ■■'■■ -_ • old gentleman, travelling ' some years ago inside the Bath mail, had two ladies' sisters, for companions. The younger, an invalid, soon feJl asleep, and the old gentleman expressed his regret to see so charming a young lady in ill health. "Ah I yee : , indeed," sighed the elder sister ; " a disease^ of the heart." "Dear me," was the' •ympatheticresponse, fl at her age ! Ossoficationj perhaps ?" " Ossifi— ? Oh no, sir! a lieutenant/ What roof- covers the most noisy tenant P^The roof of c the- mouth. ; > , . .. - .;- .-• - -■- How sweet to recline in the lapse of ages — say ■ aged about eighteen. , \ . . "Kecollect, st," j=aid a tavern-keeper; to a gentleman who was about leaving his house without paying his bill, " recollect, sir, if you should lobo your purse, you didn't pull it out here." "I never was. ruined- but twice," said Voltaire, " once when I lost a lawsuit; and once when I gained one." ; ; ; ' One of the beauties of thef court of Frederick the Grf at said to the king, " Sire, how is it that; you, who are so glorious already, still seek new fame?" " Madame," he replied, "for the BanVe reason that you, although so beautiful, still wear rouge." Birds are the poor man's music ; flowers the poor man's poetry j and the rich man has no better. Many a rich man in !' bringing up his son, seems ambitious of making what Aaron made — a golden calf. An uncommon thing for John Bull — receiving a sovereign fe'if he didn't like ii. , , :; : Seventeen millions out of twenty-three millions of Italian population are unable to read and write. She whd : loves show' is unqualified to show lore. We should, therefore, avoid contracting an intimate friendship with the- female whose love of the gay and frivolous has closed her heart to. the. in-: fluence of heroic virtues. A Boy's Idea of PnxLmo a Tooth.— ihe doctor hitched on to me, pulled' his best, and just before he killed me the tooth cameout. A writer on ornithology enquires; what kind- of e»gli-3 fly the highest ? We 1 tlonVknow ; but unquestionably golden eagles generally^fi^ the Mtest.