MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Issue 1560, 5 April 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

■ Lord Carnarvon's health is improving. Professor Huxley is ordered to Egypt for rest. Why is the road of transgressors so hard ? Because it is so much travelled The Freemasons' Tavern was refused j to the Dilke demonstration. Mr George Cruikshank claims having originated the leading characters in " Oliver Twist." Nature, says some one, very benevolently guards a rose with thorns, and a woman with pins. There is a great scarcity of silver. Colonel Tomlin continues urging Mr Lowe on the subject of minting silver. Colonel Keppel has resigned the position of equerry to the Prince of Wales on account of ill health. The man whose hair turned white in a single night is surpassed by the girl who lost hers completely off in one dance. As Dickens worked in a blacking factory when he was a boy, it was natural that he should shine afterwards. Puffing and blowing, are not synonymous ; for if you puff up a man he is pleased, whereas, if you blow him up, he is " on the contrary, quite different." A South Carolina paper says, New York has twenty miles of water front, but i " not a single alligator ;" and disgustingly adds, " Who would live in New York ?" Said one student to another, whom he caught swinging a scythe most lustily in a field of stout grass, " Frank, what makes you work for your living ? A fellow with your talents and abilities should not be caught engaged in hard labor. 1 mean to get my living by my wits." " Well, Bill, you can work with duller tools than ( I can," was the reply. 'The following paragraph appears in the Southern Gross : — " A new thing under the sun has made its appearance in the shape of a tin violin, and is declared to be superior to anything made of wood under 100 years old. The instrument is of superior tone from the hour in which it is made, and it may literally be made in an hour. The strings are catgut, but who can say that they too will not ere long be something else ?" j The 200 th anniversary of the birth of Peter the Great occurs on the 30 th May, ie. t the 11th of June according to our reckoning, 1872, and the Eussians intend to celebrate it by opening a great polytechnic exhibition on that day. All nations are invited to contribute, and it is understood that manufacturers and others in this country are already preparing for it. The Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company undertakes to forward goods freight free, and the railway companies carry at reduced charges all goods intended for the exhibition. i

When I used to tend stores at Syracuse the old mm came round one day and says he : " Boya, the one who sells the most between now and Christmas gets a vest pattern as a present." Maybe we didu't work for that vest pattern ! ] tell you there were some tall stories tolc in praise of the goods just about th;ii time; but the tallest talker, and the one that had the most cheek of all of us, was a certain Jonah Squires, who roomed with me. He could take a dollar out of a man's pocket when the man only intended tc spend a sixpence ; and the women — blese you — they just handed over their pocketbooks to him and let him lay out what he liked for them. One night Jonal woke me up with, " By Jo, old fellow, il you think that ere's got cotton in it I'll bring down the sheep that it was cut from, and make him own his owe wool. ' Twon't wear out, either ; wore a pair of pants of that stuff for five years and they are as good now as when I firat put them on. Take it at 30 cents, and L'll say you don't owe me anything. Eh. too dear ? Well, call it 28 cents. What d'ye say ? Shall I tear it ? All right, it's a bargain." I could feel Jonah's hand playing about the bed clothes for an instant, then rip, tear, went something or other, and I hid my head under the blankets, perfectly convulsed with laughter, and sure that Jonah had torn the best sheet from top to bottom. When I awoke the next morning, I found that the back of my night-shirt was split from tail to collar-band. How to Obtain a Large Yield oi Milk fbom a Cow. — A write^ who says his cow gives all the milk that is wanted in a family of eight persons, and from which was made two hundred and sixty pounds of butter in the year, gives the following as his treatment. He •cays : — " If you desire to get a large yield of rich milk, give your cow three times a day water slightly warm, slightly salted, in which bran has been stirred at the rate of one quart to two gallons of water. You will find, if you have not found this by daily practice, that your cow will gain 25 per cent, immediately under the effects of it, and she will become so attached to the diet as to refuse to drink clear water unless very thirsty, but this mesa she will drink almost at any time, and seek for more. The amount of this drink is an ordinary pailful each time, morning, noon, and night. Your animal will then do her best at discounting the lacteal."