BULLS FROM ALL LANDS.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1770, 31 July 1888, Page 3

BULLS FROM ALL LANDS.

It was a Scotchwoman who said that the butcher of her town only killed half a beast at a time. It was a Dutchman who aid that a pig had no mark on his ears except a short tail. It was a British magistrate who, being told by a vagabond that he was not married, responded, ‘That’s a good thing for your wife.' U was an English reporter who stated a 1 a meeting of the Ethnological Society, ih*t there were ‘ cas's of the skull of an individual at different periods of adult life, to show the changes produced io ten years ;’ though Dean Swift certainly mentions two sku Is preserved in Ireland - ne of a person when he was a boy, and the other of the same person when he grew to be a man. It was a Portuguese mayor who enumerated, among the nmrks by which the body of a drowned man might be identified when found, ‘ A. marked impediment in his speech.’ It was a Fie .chman who, contentedly laying his head upon a largo stone jir for a pillow,/op ted c cce who inquired if

it w ni ot "tiller liisi’d, ‘Not at al 1 , for I Bt::ffe ! it wi'ti liny.’ It was an American lecturer who solemnly saM >ne evening, ‘ Parents, ynu have chiicren ; or, if not, your may have.’