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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1872, 8 October 1874, Page 3

The Yirgiuia Enterprise tells the following: A night or- two since, at ail up-town saloon, hostilities suddenly opened between two men who were standing at the bat, when one of them caught up a large spittoon and let his antagonist hare it square on top of the head, The man hit wa3 not knocked down, whereat he seemed a little astonished, The man who struck the blow was also astonished. He dropped his weapon, an J the pair stood looking inquiringly at one another, All traces of anger had disappeared from their countenances—they merely lookel bewildered. The fellow who received the blow put his hand to his head and prospected, as it appeared to him that he had felt it crush in like the shell of a rotten pump- : kin, while on the other hand, the one who did the striking was sure he had felt} the spittoou sink half way through his enemy's head, At last the latter said: "Well, I swear, either that thing or your head is made of leather, and d—_ me if I kuow which it is!' 1 The spittoon used happened to be an Mia rubber one painted in imitation of earthenware. The discovery of this fact so amused the piir that they at once shook hands and settled their difficulty by getting outside of a couple of cocktails in company. , . An embryo poet, who is certainly a close obsener of human nature, remarks, "Time »ith this slow. "'Qiaured tread of a : iiMu. ,v iikiuj hy the d->y v ''