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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1766, 31 August 1874, Page 3

In Nevada, even as in New York, the great business of courtship goes on as briskly *b ever, though some of the details vary. From the former locality we are furnished with a narrative not common to Fifth Avenue. It is described thus:—" My sister Em has got a feller who has been coming to see her 'most every night for some time. Night before last, justfto have a little fun, I went into the parlor, and crawled under the sofa on the sly, and waited there until he and Em had got settled; and just as he was asking her if she was willing to be his dear partner for life, and trust to his strong arm for protection and support, I gave three red-hot Indian war-wheops, and bumped myself up against the bottom of the sofa, and fired off an old horse-pistol that I borrowed of Sam Johnson, and, my gracious! how that feller jumped up and scooted for the door! He never stopped to get his hat, but went tumbling head over heels down the door-steps. As for Em, she was just that scared that she squatted right down on the floor; and screeched like blue blazes, till dad and mother came rushing in, with nothing on but their night-clothes, and wanted to know what the matter was. But Em' only yelled the louder, and kept pointing under the sofa, till dad got down on his knees, and saw me there, aud pulled me out by the hind-leg. When he had got me out in the woodshed, he warped me over his knee, and went at me with an old trunk strap, and I haven't gos. over it real nicely yet." . " Abt" VBBStrs LAW.—George M. Clark, e of largo Tenown as * 'showman, and^ of goodly report as a gentleman, was giving a deposition in Manchester, New Haven the other day,.in the case of Kelsey v. Osborne. James If. Briggs, counsel for the,plaintiff, did not like the look of the - deposition from his stand-point, and ua-. dertook to weaken it .by belittling the witness.. Hence he began with a sneer : JfcYou are in the negro minstrel business I Tbelieve?" "Yes sir," was tho reply. " You black your face and sing for a living, do you?" "Yes sir." "Well, don't you call that rather low busin«s?to follow?". "£ don't know but it is, sir;, but it is so much better than that of my father before me, that I am rather proud \ of it." " Why what did your father do ? " "Ho was a lawyer." Holloway's Pillß.- Stomach, Liver, and Bowel s £.In all painful affections of the stomach and disordered actions of the livpr and bowels, one single trial. ;of those Pills will demonstrate that they pososs regu-' latiug and renovating power* in a high degree. They speedily restore the appetite, lessen'the unpleasant detention of the abdomen, aud so prevent inflamina tion of the bowels and other serious abdominal ail- ■ menta. HoHowny's Pills afford the greatest comfort to t^e dyspeptic invalid, without harraseing or weak- ' ening th» most sensitive,constitution, or interfering materially with the' studies/ pleasures, or pursuits. , The simplicity and efficacy of this treatment has evoked the gratitude of all classes in both hemispheres and . commanded a sale for these purifying Pills unprecedented in medical historyl Technical Knowledge;—A Gales. 1 burg barber advertises himself as a " professor of crinicultural abscission and cran. V iological tripsis."

Cubiosities of Language.—Th» Hindoos are said to have no word for "friend." The Italians have no equivalent for our " humility." The Russian dictionary gives a word, the definition of which is, "not to have enough buttons on your footman's waistcoat;" the second is, "to Is ill over again ;" a third, "to earn by dancing." The Germans call a thimble a " fiuger-hat," which it certainly is, and; a grasshopper a "hay horse." A glove with them is a " hand shoe," showing that they wore shoes before gloves. The French, strange to say, have no verb "to stand," nor can a Frenchman speak of " kicking" anyone. The nearest approach he!, in his politeness, makes to it is to threaten to "give a blow with his foot," the same thing, probably, to the recipient in either case, but it seems to want the energy, the directness of our " kick." The terms, " upstairs," and " downstairs," are unknown in French.