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Tuapeka Times, Volume I, Issue 2, 22 February 1868, Page 4

A Dsing SoENB.-Tbe famous Tony Lee, b player in King Charles IL's time, being to be killed in a tragedy, having a violent cold, could not forbear coughing as he lay dead upon the stage, which occasioned a good deal Jof laughing and noise in the house. He lifted up his head, and apeaking to the audience, •aid, " This confirms what" my poor mother iued to tell me, for she would often Bay that that I should cough in my grave, been.:sel used ' 7 -i-' in ra? porridge." This &t the &2T' '"- Vl"'V 1 "' Z'" k'.-r.ie:ir~rhat it readily' '^ir- -»-.* An zjitvlan lit- h& ' beforo coni-

! Cosnitbiai. Atpeotiok.— An instance of connubial affection ia narrated as occurring lately in Now Hampshire. A couple had quarrelled during the whole long term of their married life. At last the husband was taken ill, and evidently about to die. His j wife came to his bedside, where, after sbe had j'teeu his condition, the following colloquy J ensued :~"Wy, daddy, your fee* 'are cold, and your hands are cold, and 'you? no3"e is coldJ" "Wa'ol, let üm V' cold," " Wy, daddy, you're goin' to die. " Wa'al, I guess I know what fm 'bout." " Wy, daddy, wats to becum of # me if you die ? " " Dunno, and don't caro !" Wat I want to know is, wats to becum of me ! " " Whax brought you to prison, my colored friend,? "— " 1™ constables, Bah." " Yes ; tut I mean had intemperance anything to do with it? "—"Yes, sah, dey was bofe of 'em rirunk, • "

I Dodging Bails.— Arf ox-wwrior of IndiAma^ia disposed to Compliment the unflinching (courage and preaonce'of mind of a certain colonel during our recent Southern dispute. .. His regiment was about to enter its first en\gagement. The " Minies " were flying about in the moat inappropriate and indiscriminate manner, when the gory chieftain halted the column* an^thus spake :— " Soldiers of Indiana] much depends upon you to-day ! Sol , diers of Indiana ! do your duty I Soldiers o Indiana ! no dodging the balls, but stand Uf like men!"^ Just then a shell came screechinj by, very near the "colonel. He involuntarily i dodged, but instantly recovering himself, ex claimed :-r 4C Dodgethe big ones, boys! dodg . the big ones, but don't dodge the little ones Indiana expects that you will not dodge th little balls ! " And with that martial observa . tion he " went in and did his level best " fo an undivided natioiaality. . . An Irish recruit; was asked by his offi cer, " .What's your height ? " to whic' Pat replied, "The map that measure told me it was five foot ten, or ten foe five; I am. not exactly sure which— by it was'either-the one or the other." =:^nenasn^p l V^ cg %?^°. 0 , s e so red ? you niake'that*oTft?-^~^p^)gbra^QJ tr d ' wfeakt^T^ *J£Fa£&- ? ief »S