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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 464, 11 February 1869, Page 3

When- Mr Justice O'Doherty presided as an assize judge on the Muni?. ter circuit he hired a car to take him to a friend's house to dinner. He had not gone far when the horse became restive, and upset the car in a ditch. On being released, the judge asked the driver how long the horse had been in harness. " Half-an-hour, sir."—"l mean how long since he was first put in harness?"—"Half-an-hour, sir; and master said, if he carried you safe, he'd buy him." Somebody, who, it may be presumed, meant to be funny, has imagined the following as the result of "editorial muddling:"—"Yesterday morning, at 4 p.m., a man with a heel iu the hole of his stocking committed arsenic by swallowing a large quantity of suicide. The inquest of the verdict returned a jury that the deceased came to the facts in accordance with his death. He leaves a child and six small wives to lament his end of his untimely death. In death we are in the midst of life."