AMERICAN NOTES.

Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 219, 11 April 1872, Page 5

AMERICAN NOTES.

{From Becent Exchanges.) Two emigrants to one immigrant is the ratio in Virginia.

Of the seventy-four United States Senators, fifty are lawyers.

The Nebraska courtships are said to average three hours and a half in length.

A South Norwalk (Conn.) man stole a handsome Bible, to gladden the heart of his aged mother on Christmas, but becoming impressed with the enormity of the offence, stole another to replace it.

A small boy, being called up as a witness in a New York court, and asked by Mr C. S. Spencer what they do to persons who swear to a lie, replied, " They, make policemen out of 'em."

A deed was recently prepared by a law firm in Illinois, which was thirty feet long. It transferred two thousand pieces of land in Northwestern Iwoa, all owned by one man.

Miss Moore has succeeded her father, Capt. T. S. Moore, as lighthouse-keeper at Black, Connecticut. Having assisted him for the last fifteen years, she is presumed to know how the old thing works.

The father of Dorabella recently found that little girl's chubby little hand full of the blossoms of a favorite rose tree, on which he had bestowed great care. "My dear, said he, didn't I tell you not to pick one of those flowers without leave ?" "Yes, papa, said Dorabella, but all these had leaves,"