PACETIÆ.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 80, 21 August 1869, Page 6

PACE TIÆ.

A Troy military company talk of making a parade on the velocipedes the conu ing .season. Velocipede butter is common in Minnesota—worked by Norwegians with their feet.

Sarah Jane Bates writes to the Binghampton "Republican" that her husband goes out days and rides a velocipede, and then keeps up the propelling motion ■with his feet g.ll the jiight, She don't li^© it. Exciting if not comfortable. —An elderly gentleman has invented a onewheeled velocipede, which is quite a novelty. It does away with seat, pedals, breaks, and all. There is a crank attached to. the axle on each" side of the wheel. You sit between the spokes, and turn the crank with your hands. The ridSrgoes round with the wheel, turning a somerset at each revolution. The sensation is therefore peculiar, and the fide

is much more exciting than on the ordin-

ary velocipede. The objection to this style ; isj they can never be used by ladies. Losi Sheep. — A nieiliodisi preaclier was travelling in one of the back-settle-ments, and stopped at a cabin, where the

old lady received him very kindly. After 'setting provision before him, she begaif to -question him. " Stranger, where inought you he from?'' " Madam, I reside in Shelby county, Kentucky." "Wai i"'> fetranger, no offence, but what moughtf you be doin' up here " - v Madam, I am searching for the lost sheep of the, .tribe of Israel." "John! John!" showed tho old lady, " come rite here this minute ; here's a stranger all the way fronfi Shelby county, Kentucky, a-hunt-ing stack, and I'll jusi bet my life that tangled-haired black ram that's been in our lot all last week is one of his'n"

Lord Aberdeen and his Eleotor. — La Ftif&tb "tells the following anecdote of Lord Aberdeen and M. Guiz.ot : — "M. GnizQp was walking in the park of Haddo Ho'ilse with Lord Aberdeen. All at once the English statesman stopped him before a cottage of very modest appearance. ' T^ere.' said he, $ is a small house, which recalls 'to my mind a great shame of my poljLtjcal life.' 'An act of violence? 2 aski^. o^l. Guizot. ' Judge you — I had there a cottager, a fine fellow, but horribly- '^Buoying, who. in every election conflict never lost the opportunity of oppos-ing-sriei-? Did you turn him out V 'No j but I reduced his rent by one guinea.' Thits rj smiini3hed, the small farmer was no longer an elector, and could no more annoy 'ijke noble lord." A'-ne'b'dote of the Late Lord Fanmure. r— The following appears in ' ( Onge-a-Weel'' under the head " Table Talk" :— " Two, young English noblemen were paying sa,jqsit5 a,jqsit to Lord Panmure at Brechin Castle. One day he wrote a letter to Pafllgthie, a tenant of His, to come and dine with him, and at the same time he or<Jeas9ci him to bring a sum of money. Panlathie was aware when he got that ordbrf>4hat something was to be done. After dinner, Lord Pivnmure gave the firßtr^dast, which waa ' All hats in the fire, .or £20 on the table. 1 Four hats? //were immediately in the fire. Oiie' 'of' the English noblemen gave the next.tqast, ' All coats in the fire, or £50 orfine'lable. 1 Four coats vrcre comm.itted e^p.,the flames. The other gentleman gave "the next toast, 'All boots in the iirgj q?o£100 on the table." The whole of the boots were committed to the flames. PaulatJiia'd toast came next. * Two foreieMii) the fire, or- £200 on the table,' when Panlathie pulled his teeth out a.nd Eun in the fire. The English looked amazed. He had ivory nown to them, and Panlathie a without hat, coat, or boots, ( ad £600 in his pocket. Lord thought iriuch qf his tenant v