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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1856, 14 December 1874, Page 3

A Georgia girl is going to lecture on "Kisses" in "Washington. She will borrow a man to experiment on. A coloured Mrs. Partington, of New Orleans, observed the other day that her husband held the " stinguished position of stupidnumerary on the metropelican police." Wham Whiteman.—The story that Whalt White»an is about to lose his clerkship in Washington moves the Cincinnatti Daily Star to deep regret, since it supposes that he will now devote himself entirely to writing poetry. When a Portland woman chases her boy with a broom, he runs down on a wharf and jumps into the water. When he conies out his face is washed, his mother does net know him, and he is safe. —Boston Globe.

Caictti-atino Bots. — The useless industry of that ex-chef d'orchestre who has taken the trouble to count the number of notes in Meyerbeer's opera of "Les HugueDots," and estimates them at 43,720 exclusive of the overture and ballet, reminds us of an anecdote related by Hazlitt, of Jedediah Buxton, the famous calculator. A gentleman was telling some people that when Buxton was in London he was taken to see Garrick act. When he returned to the county he was asked what he thought of the place and the play. "; Oh," he said, "he did Hot know, he had only seen a little man strut about the stage and repeat 7,956 words." Whilst the reciter's hearers jrere laughing at this anecdote a person in the corner of the room, who seemed pleased with the answer, suddenly exclaimed, "Indeed! and pray'was, he found correct ?" " Buxton's counting the number of words was idle enough," says B[azlitt, "but here wa? a fellow" who wanted to count them over again to see if he were cwreot!"