MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 951, 23 March 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Here is the free-leve 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."

An old farmer said to his sons—- " Roys, don't you ever speckerlate, or wait for summat to turn up. You might just as well go an' sit down on a stone in the middle of a medder, with a pail atwixt your legs an' wait for a cow to hack up to be milked." , A Grermau writer complains of the diffiuclties of the English language, and cites the word Boz, which he says i» pronounced Dickens.

A little vagrant boy brought up in a London police court, in reply to questions, said : " 1 don't live nowhere. I ain't got no friends. I sleep at night under the showboard agin the Lyceum Iheayter. . Sometimes I gits under other board's."

" Are these rooms to let ?" said a a polite gentleman to a handsome young lady. " Yes, sir " " And are you to let with them p" " No, sir, I'm to he let alone."

The following recipe given by aeonjtemporary for a cu''e for bleeding at th 3 nose —very common in such hot weather as we are now experiencing—will probably be useful to many—"Put a piece of paper in your mouth, chew it rapidly, and -it will stop your nose from bleeding. This remedy has been tried .so frequently it is stated, and always with success. It i 3 at all events worth trying." A piece of brown paper placed under the tongue is said to have a similar effect.

A girl of the period gave a supper to a few gentlemen the other evening. Her mamma was present. One of the gentlemen was telling a story ; he stopped on a sudden and said, " I beg your pardon, the conclusion is scarcely fit for ladies' ears." " Tou hear, mamma," said the girl of the period ; leave the room a minute • you can come in again by-and-bye."