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Southland Times, Issue 1559, 2 April 1872, Page 2

The word " sterling " was derived from the Eaaterlings, or East G-erman traders, whose money in former times was noted for its special fineness. A Norwegian lady has arrived in Milwaukee with some twenty of her children. She says there are so many accidents she didn't think it safe to bring them, all on one boat as iucaseof a wreck she wouldn't have any heart to commence life in a new country" She expects the rest of them shortly. A pistol fell from a Macon mantelpiece and convinced a neighboring colored infant that all is vanity. A writer advises young women to look favorably upon those engaged in agricultural pursuits, assiguing a 8 one reason that their " Mother, Eve, married a gardener." He forgot to add that in consequence of the match the gardener lost his situation. A Modern Contjnbeum.— lf a milkmaid four feet ten inches in height, while sitting on a three-legged stool, took four pints of milk from every fifteen cows, what was the size of the field in which the animals grazed, and what was the, girl's age ?