VARIETIES.

Southland Times, Issue 1276, 8 July 1870, Page 3

VARIETIES.

A New York drayman qwni a horse so poor •tiiat-'S 5 knot is tied in hit tail to. prevent his body slipping through/ the collar*, -■---■■■■■--■-■'■_ -...:/1.-.\ '- ' j Pqlieemenm^ckshnrgareaiTajed in red uniforms iptobablyjn order 'that the aggrieved, citizens jnay faianr^ wfiepe_to_ seelT red-dress. . :. . -2s - .Louisville makes 1500 barrels a day, and 2i460-,oo&galloafr of whisky a ■ year. :..•■..*.. .-•, ■ ■ ■ ■; .-■ ■•.. ;.j •■;■■ '..■ --. Two saUors were sitting on the gunwale of their ship, drinking grog. " This is meat and drink," said Jack, and fell overboard as he .was speaking. "And now you have washing and lodging," coolly remarked Tom. - . . • "When you say, in a phrase which ir now quite common, such and such a man is a " brick," do you think of, or do you know the origin of it ?It is this:— An • Eastern prince on being asked, ""Where ; are the fortifications of your city?" i replied, pointing to his soldiers, "Every man you see here is a brick." What a Million is Wobth in some j minds may be judged from the two ban : mots just crept up. Hope, the celebrated 1 banker, who was suffering from an inexorable malady which prevented him from eating, seeing a friend at work upon a chop, exclaimed with accents of emotion, ' stopping his friend's hand as it was conveying a piece of chop on a fork to his mouth, " Cherished friend, I would give a million to be able, to eat that chop as thou art doing! 1 * And M. Nathaniel Rothschild, who was paralysed, on hearing of the accident* to his brother from a fall from . his horae, exclaimed, "Ah ! how happy he must be to be able to get on horseback at the risk of breaking his neck by a fall ! I would give a million to be able to risk as much." Horace "Walpole tells a story of a Lord Mayor of London, in his time, who, having heard that a friend had the small- . pox twice, and died of it, asked if he died .i the first time or second. : A young woman had laid a wager^ she would descend into a vault, in the middle ' of the night, and bring from thence a ' skulL The person who took the wager had previously hid himself in the vault, and as the girl seized the skull, cried,- in a hollow voice : — " Leave me my head !" " There it is," said the girl throwing it down and catching up another. " Leave me my head !" said the same voice. "Nay, nay," said the heroic lass, "you cannot have two heads ;" so brought the skull and ■ won the wager. Kicking Cows.— A correspondent of the Rural American says :— Take a linen cloth, wet it in cold water, and just before you commence milking lay it on their loins wet. Those who have tried it say that a cow will not kick so long as the cold, wet cloth remains on her back.