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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 16, 25 October 1871, Page 3

—Here is the experience of an afflicted Dutchman’s wife ; “ Katarina, I like to know who gief you de brivilege dat you shall go ant spent me fife cent for to puy dat ploo ribbon vat you got died arount your vaterfalls ? You rant to brake me up in peesines, seh? I pet you dem tings don’t nafer happens again in dis family, pecause I schlap you town so flat as you can’t stant, nint it ? Coom, Shake,” tumiDg to a friend, “let’s go; lent us a half tollar, ant go an a sphree out mid scheutzen.” A married couple in Springfield have not spoken to each other for years. The man boasts that he has the happiest home in the country. Mere matter of form—Fitting a dress. A belle must needs own a sore-eyed poodle now-a-days. It is a queer woman who asks no questions, hut the woman who does is the querist. Mrs Amy Franks, of Pennsylvania, has 500 living descendants, though she is only 90 years old. Sirs Bliss Smith, of Londonderry, New Hampshire, has followed the trade of shoemaking for 40 years,