MISCELLANEOUS.
An Impudent Thing. — Taking refuge from tbe rain in an umbrella shop. What is the difference between a Christian and a cannibal ? — The one enjoys himself, and tbe other enjoys other people. Becoming. — In time a mulberry tree becomes a silk gown, and a silk gown becomes a woman. Queen Elizabeth always displayed ber worst temper in her best clothes. Sbe was dreadfully ruffled then. An Irish editor says be can see no earthly reason why women should not be allowed to become medical men. Dogs at Wobk. — The London Echo says : — The French Society for tbe Protection of Animals is divided on the question whether dogs should be made to work or not. The editor of a journal published by this Society considers idleness as injurious to dogs as to men, and, as a contrast with what he considers the wretched existence of unemployed dogs, quotes the instance of four honest workmen he has seen at the marble quarries of Bagnerea de Bigarre, earning their livelihood by turning an immense wooden wheel, which is the motive power of some machinery used for sawing marble. The eldest of these good dogs and true is Cesar le Gris, a brown bull-dog, who carries off his twelve years; seven of whicb bave been spent in bis present employment, remarkably well. His master taught him his business by himself turning the wheel on all fours. Negret is almost as old aa his comrade, and possesses tbe same estimable qualities. He belongs to the respectable corporation of shepherd dogs. Cesar le Noir is in the prime of life, and something of a viveur, but a good workman. Faraud, a shepherd's dog of unexceptionally bappy disposition, is extremely intelligent, but has one fault — be" attitudinises." When spectators are present he is apt to turn the wheel with breathless baste, only to let it rest when left to himself. Each of the comrades work four hours a day on two meals of dog biscuits. The fraternity have not yet learned to strike, and any member of it wben taken by the paw and interrogated regarding bis connection with tbe International, invariably makes no intelligible reply.
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Southland Times, Issue 1686, 7 January 1873, Page 3
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361MISCELLANEOUS. Southland Times, Issue 1686, 7 January 1873, Page 3
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