MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 905, 26 December 1871, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

A letter against the use of organs in churches, appears in. the "Scotsman." Iu the Gourse of it the writer remarks : —" Though instrumental music was used in the Old Testament Scripture, it was even then a corruption from original Christianity." This sage must be of the opinion of the old Deistical writer, who indited a book some century and a half ago, intituled " Christianity as old as the Creation." The Census shows that half the Mormons in Utah Territory come from England. Mr Giles Loader, a London merchant lately deceased, has left a fortune of three millions sterling. At Cadiz lately, a fatal accident occurred to Signor Eurando, who was well-known in London as the spiral ascensionist. He bad gone through the first of his performance on the ball or barrel, when in making the trapeze leap—which forms the second part—a rope broke, and he was thrown heavily on the ground. He was taken up insensible, and expired a few hours after. Sir Michael Costa has declined the offer to be Joint Conductor at the Boston Musical Festival, which is to number 20,000 executants.

Dr Nichols, of Malvern, has published a pamphlet in which he undertakes to show that the average of Britons can live on 6d a day, on a pennyworth of potatoes and a pennyworth of of dried codfish, boiled together ; then both mashed and mixed together with a bit of butter, which he says make an excellent dish. As to drink, he recommends rain-water. A young lady with a very pretty foot, but a rather large ancle, went into a San Francisco shoe store to be measured. The admiring clerk, who is of Gallic extraction complimented her in the following queer way: " Madame you have one bootiful foot, butze leg commenced too immediately." James W. Marshall, the discoverer of gold in California, has been forced in his old age to resort to lecturing and selling the written history of his life and adventures in order to gain a livelihood. "Before I begin to drink, my business is over for the day," said a tradesman to his friend. "Quite the reverse is the case with me," rejoined the other; "for my business is over for the day when I bpgin to drink." The Society of Bill-Stickers in tbe United Kingdom numbers about 400 members. " A distressed Churchman," writing to the " Birmingham Post," records the moral shock sustained by him on meeting in the street a bishop in trousers. The Fraserburgh fishermen have caught more herrings this year than in any previous one. In fact, several nets have been lost through being overweighted with fish. Nearly £4OOO has been collected in Spain for a monument to Marshal Prim A young lady has brought a libel suit against her mother as the only means left to get a mother-in-law. "In Cork," said O'Connell, " I remembor the crier trying to- disperse the crowd by exclaiming, 'AH ye blackguards that isn't lawyers quit the Coort.' " A dyspeptic reader that by sending a dollar by mail he would receive a cure for dyspepsia. He sent the money, and received the slip with the following printed on it : " Stop drinking and hoe in the garden." The man was mad at first, then laughed, and finally went to hoeing, and stopped drinking, and is as well as ever. Here is the free-love marriage vow as finally adopted: "We promise to love each other, and live in the same brown stone front till we are tired of each other, and see some one we like better." A rich but ignorant lady, who was ambitious that her conversation should be up to the trau seen dental style, in speaking of a friend, " He is aparagram of politeness!" " Excuse me," said a wag sitting next to her " but do you not mean a parallelogram ?" "Of course I mean a parallelogram," replied the ambitious lady ; " how could I have made such a misetake ?" Prof. Huxley, in a late lecture, said that the present feminine fashions outrage all common sense by displaying a woman's figure in the form of a candle-extinguisher upside down, that such an absurd style of dress is physically injurious and anatomically monstrous. A married couple in Springfield <have not spoken to each other for years. The man boasts that he has the happiest home in the country.