MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Issue 998, 5 August 1868, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Not aßobbbby, but a Fobced Loan. — A Canadian of French, extraction came over to visit the Exhibition in Paris, and was hospitably, as a relative, received, into a French family -for ■■*■" month. One night he entered the bedroom of his host, picked a lock with consummate address and extracted securities payable to bearer- worth /; 55,900 f, with their coupons attached. . After thp ; act he retired to rest, and in the morning took leave, left Paris by the railway and ; reached _ Liverpool, whence he addressed a note to this effect to his victims:— "lt is I who j have taken your securities, your diamonds, jewels, and plate. But (in is no robbery ; it is a forced loan. With its produce I shall do a great business in Canada.. If I succeed. l will repay you with interest j" if I fail it will be a dead loss to you and to me." : ' Courtship is often made up of the fact that the girl calls her beau a noble youth, a hero, a genius'; while he calls her a paragon of beauty and gentle- -, : ness — and so they keep tickling each 1 other ; till -. they get married, and then comes the scolding. Thb Obighk as MTrmaßß.-r^The belief of the Egyptian was, that if the soul could be kept within the body for at least three thousand years, then it would be entitled to enter the regions of endless felicity ; but if it once left the body, then it would wander about, passing continually from one body .: to another according .to the belief in the doctrine . of metempsychosis. The object, then, of the bandaging seems to be not ao much the preservation of the body, but that not the smallest aper-- ; ture should be left by which it.coulfl escape j tho entrails and brain were, however, removed on the ground that they were non-essentials, and were therefore,- burned. Suggestive. 1 — "' My dear," said Mrs Bumble to her daughter, " you must have something warm around you in the carriage. Miss B. mentioned ! the request of her mother to her beau, and he immediately complied with it by placing his arm around the young lady's waist. \ ; ■. . .' ■ . Mannbbs ! —'Young Mistress: Jane, Tin surprised' that none of you stood up when I went ; into the kitchen just now ! — Jane : Indeed, mum I -. which we was su'prised ourselves at your a comin' into the latching while; we waß a 'avin-'Otir'" 1 iuncheong !!■ " . i/: ■..:" ' i- V '"■''''[' f -i''^' Theeb was after all something' apposite inXbrd' <" Townshend's late act pf heroism. A The noble Marquis has often been derided by the gallery — he • naturally sought to avenge himself *)ir:the ,Pitt.' Poob Feixow. — An old gentleman whiose masti- . cation is not of the best, has just advertised for a butcher to} supply him by-contract; ■Invfchis'm'anner he hopes and expects to get ,<M tender meat! < Gettin& Thin&3 HT Tbaik^— A contemporary in eulogizing the activity of the Marquis of Abercorn in making preparations for the Regal visit states that he has ordered three, trains. to^be, in readiness on"the" (Jrieat Southern Rai way, for thp A use of the'royal parties on the' day of t the' PunY Vv, chestown race. It is to be hoped he 'will make" | sufficient arrangements foFbteirtih^ : these I , 'fliree j trains ptincttiafly, : niore especially; as "Trains" in Ireland have lately been liableffb detention. Ftfa' OpeSi OBSECEOl^The'Minkis'bjeing domesticated and brd in America for the sake of its fur, and it is sserted that unless these -means are taken for tthe presefrvatiQu of the fur-bearing breeds of animals, they will in a comparatively short time' x be 'extirpated — in other words, if we don't economise them they'Wotft go^ttrP'r' 1^"