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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 496, 27 April 1869, Page 3

An editor in Illinois having engaged a new reporter, received the following as his first report:— We are informed that the gentleman hoo stood on his head under a spile driver for the purpose ov having a tight pair ov butes druv on, shortly found himself m China, perfectly naked, and without a cent in his pocket. He writes that it is his intenshun of returning home hy way of Paris Exposition.

It is related of the late Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr Longley) that he once received a severe shock at Somerset House, whither His Grace had gone to execute a deed. " What name?" said the clerk. "Longley," answered the prelate. "Go to " (a place which need not be further described), rejoined the clerk; and some explanation was necessary before it became evident that the official had no radical hatred of episcopacy, and had only unwittingly aspirated the L of the department (arranged alphapetically) to which he wished to direct Dr Longley. Leavenworth claims to be so healthy that when it lately became necessary to " inaugurate " the new graveyard, " they had to shoot a man on purpose." Scotch jigs, reels, and courtly Highland flings suddenly became, and now are, fashionable at the French Court.