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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 66, 22 December 1871, Page 3

It is estimated that one burning gas jet will consume as much air as five persons. ltussia-lcather photographic albums, in the shape of a travelling bag are announced. Immense numbers of fur-bearing animals have perished in the Northwestern conflagrations. Mrs. Francis Power Cobbc is the only woman journalist in London, A drunken man near L’Ansc, Mich., attacked a young bear, thinking it a man. He is slowly recovering, but his clothes are hopelessly scattered. The intelligent jury in Pensylvania, when a notorious scoundrel pleads guilty, invariably find him not guilty. They arc not to be deceived in that way, you know. A domestic revelation. Nice boy : “ I’m jolly glad you’s going to stop with us.” Visitor : ‘'Are you darling? Why so ?” Nice boy: “’ Cause we shall have nice dinners now 1” Dean Stanley had a pnrrot which one day escaped from her cage, the great consternation of the Dean and a company of visitors at his house. On searching the grounds pretty Polly was found swinging on the topmost branch of a tree. Seeing so large an audience, she so'd, with edifying gravity, “ Let us pray.” Two scavengers were quarrelling as to their respective working abilities, when one, meaning to silence his mate, said : “ Well, Dill, you cau take the middle of the street, but you can’t do an ornamental piece of work, like sweeping round a lamp post.” An old blunder of the types in an evening paper, astounds the public with the information that a gentleman has applied for a divorce from his wife on the ground of “ iucompatability of temper.” We suppose this mcaus that the wife would not show fight enough to make operation of bullying her interesting. Such a woman might indeed tire out the patience of any man. When King Amadeus sent a telegram to the cx-Emprcss Eugenie, asking what honors she wished to have rendered her on hervisit to Spain, she replied that she desired to travel in the strictest privacy. Her adversities, she added, had made her indifferent to pomp and ceremony. She returned to Spain as an unfortunate woman, anxious to sec once more the land of her birth, where she had been so happy.

Spurgeon tells tlic following : “ I like the story of the servant maid who, when she was asked on joining the church, ‘Are you converted?’ ‘ I hope so, sir.’ ‘What makes you think you arc r eally a child of God ?” ‘ Well sir, there is a great change in me from what there used to he.’ ‘ What is the change ?’ ‘ I don’t know, sir, but there’s a change in all things ; but there is one thing, I always sweep under the mat now.

The honor of being the richest man in the United States lies between William B. Aster, Cornelius Vanderbilt, and A. T. Stewart. Probably neither of these gentlemen can tell within ten millions what he is worth, and there is not supposed to be so much difference between them. Sixty millions is a medium estimate of the wealth of either of the three.

English excise officers arc said to he sharp enough to tell by smelling a man’s breath whether the liquor he has drank has paid its texes. The statement is based upon the circumstance of a man being found drunk in the streets with a pint bottle of whiskey in his pocket ; the liquor was submitted to the excise authorities, who smelled it, tasted it, and decided that it had never paid duty. The man was prosecuted for having it in his possession, and, though he declared he knew nothing about it, lie was fined £25.

The Maitland (N.SAV.) Mercury gives an account of a striking mode of forcing a jury to agree. Tlic foreman was in favour of acquittal, but flic other eleven jurors were obstinate. The jury were locked up all night, and in the morniug they were ushered into the box, at their own request, as soon as the Court opened. Elcteu of them presented the appearance of badly crushed oranges after mildew had set in, and the eyes of most of them wore cccliymosed. On being asked if they were agreed, they gave a verdict of “ not guilty.” The forcible argument used by the foreman had prevailed upon them to come o au agreement witlii him. f- your sister fell into a well why couldn te yon recue her?—Because you couldn't be a brother and a-sist her too. Borrows accumulate. A companion piece to -‘Cut off my Curls with your Scissors Mamma,’’ entitled'’ l!i’> my Chighnon with your Jack knife. Papa’’ has just come out. The “Chrifitnin Union*’ finds “ a new method' of raising funds” - in the announcement of the fair of religious association, which reads as follows: ‘‘The annual sale of the ladies of the society will take OQ Thursday evening next.”