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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 170, 25 April 1872, Page 3

Ax Elephant’s Remouse.— There was, some years ago, a trained elephant in Travancore. whose keeper was accustomed to call daily at an arrack shop in passing, giving the elephant a little of the spoils each time, both being “fond of a drop.” One day the beast was refractory, and the keeper, much displeased, threatened that he would stop his allowance of arrack. Shortly afterwards, calling at the shop as usual, lie brought out the arrack in a dish, drank the whole bef re the eyes of the animal, and returned the vessel. The elephant, highly incensed, struck the keeper with bis trunk, but so heavy was the blow that the man was killed on the spot. Perceiving what he had done, the sagacious and, on the whole affectionate creature, exhibited marks of the deepest grief, roaring and crying like a child over the corpse, and fondling it. and was with much difficulty ultimately led away. — “ Indian Notes and Incidents, ” in the (Juirrr. Such is Life.— Scene.—Somewhere in Belgravia (of course). Dramatis personal, a mother and her daughter.—Daughter: Oil ! Mamma dear, may T go to the Bouncer's ball?” Her Mamma : “No, Clara, darling, you are better here at home with me.” Daughter : “ But you used to go io balls once Mamma?” Her Mamma: “Yes, my love, but now I’ve seen the folly of it.” Daughter : “ But I want to sec folly of it, too, Mamma dearest.—Judy. Vivifying Treatment of a Partner (a Tragedy of the last Harrogate Season) — Young Lady (to a partner instantly on their taking their places) : “ Now I’ve been to Fountain Abbey, and to Bolton, and I’ve seen the Brimhnm Bocks, and the Dropping Well, and the view from the observatory, and we bad a morning in York Minster, and we have been here a fortnight, and we are going to stay another, and papa takes the chalybeate waters, and I qm very glad the cavalry arc coming. Now you may begin conversation.” (Utter collapse of partner.)—Punch. Cloudy, but Not Drunk : Lawyer to witness, "Do you mean to say, sir. that my client was drunk .”’ Witness : “ I won’t sav he was drunk, but I do say that ho couldn’t tell what time it was, because be said bis watch had two hands, and he didn’t know which to believe. A railway bridge, a mile and threequarters in length, has been constructed across the Mississippi. Nothwithstanding the deep snow and iu - tense cold, Nevada has been overrun with prospectors lately,