MISCELLANEOUS.

Southland Times, Issue 1687, 10 January 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Thk Green Bay post-office officials don't like to answer questions. The following, posted over the general delirery, expresses their sentiments : — Price of three rent, stamps, three cents each ; licked and stuck, five cents each ; the clock will answer the question, "Has the mail closed ?" At an Irish breakfast table, a traveller from the east handed to one of his fellow* travellers a plate of sausages, whereupon the question was a*ked " Is it safe ?" to which was replied, " This is a prolific pig country, and it is safe to eat sausages wherever pig is cheaper than dog.* 1 The Correct Weight or Milk. — Mr Gale Borden, of White Plains, New York, who conducts an establishment for preparing condensed milk, has been making some experiments for the purpose of determining the correct weight of crude milk. * He took the milk of several cows, aud. mingling it together and then thoroughly cooling it, he had it accurately weighed. The result was that a quart of milk, bo measured and weighed on delicate scales, was equal to 21 n 2^oz. The tests were made with differ nt samples of milk at different times, but without materially altering t\fb weight Mr Bcrden has adopted the above a* a true weight of a quart of milk of fair average quality. Hence, any person who buys milk may determine by weight, with satisfactory accuracy, whether be receives a quart when he is required to pay for that quantity. A yottitg man in New York was the victim of misplaced confidence a short time ago. He was particularly sweet on a very young lady, and called one evening, having previously paid her several visits. The girl's parent*, thinking both too young to bepin to keep company with each other, gave a gentle hint to that effect — first by calling the girl out of the room and sending her to bed ; and second* ly, by the lady of the house bringing in a tiugn slice of bread and butter, spread with jam, to the room, and saying to the youth in her kindest manner, " There, take this, and go home ; it is a long way, and your mother will b« anxious."