General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4466, 28 April 1883, Page 2

General News.

The Hawkea Bay Herald relates an amusing incident which occurred in that district. A .member of a church choir brought a handsome musical album on his way to the weekly practice and took itjto church with him, placing it on the harmonium. On leafing be forgot to take it with him, and it was left till Sunday. During the service the organist espied the book, and casually took it down to see what it was. He opened it, when to his horror it immediately commenced to give forth the well-known tune, "Yankee Doodle." In despair, he placed it on Ms chair, and sat upon it, but all to no purpose ; the sound was smothered a little, but still *f Yankee Doodle" j_was repeated again and again until the spring had ran down. The effect upon the congregation may be imagined. After the service, ex* planation followed, but the church officers could not be calmed. E: ! An American paper states that the Eer. G. Cole, on being arrested and i charged with " mopping the floor with his mother-in-law and firing her out the Front door," pleaded that he had wrestled with her in spirit until he grew weary, so he found out a more resultful way." The jury ac« quitted him. Pat Holland, now of Arizona, once had [ a reputation for being a dead shot with a pistol, but be has had to take a. postoffice for a living. He acquired a reputation for shooting apples from a young lady's head on the stage. He announced one night that he would shoot twelve apples from twelve young ladies' heads, using his left hand as well as his right. But by the time he fired the first six shots all twelve of the apples had disappeared and his last six were delivered to the open air, amid the roars of the audience. Two apples got tangled together and remained dang* ling from the edge of a scene in plain sight of the audience. Each apple had a fine thread attached, and as the shot was fired it was jerked quickly out of sight. The supes who pulled the strings got confused, and half the apples disappeared before )the time. This ended His career and fame. . «- "Gin a Body."—University Version.— If a human being of the feminine gender should by chance while perambulating the fields, meet one of the opposite sex indulging in a similar perambula'ion, and the latter should make any remark with a view of opening up a convergationvoi:. even go the length of surreptitiously without permission snatching osculatory gratification, is that any sufficient motive, cause, or inducement why the-former should burst forth into lachrymatory lamentation P We pause for a reply.,