EXTRACTS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 959, 5 April 1872, Page 3

EXTRACTS.

" What have you to remark about my singing ?" said a gentleman to a lady. " Nothing, sir," replied the lady, " it is not remarkable." The Bank of Ireland, Dublin, was robbed of £4OOO through a clerk leaving his desk for a few minutes. The sale in England of halfpenny labels and cards during the six months ended 31st of March amounted to 168,753,060, the duty being £351,562 12s 6d. Already 17,000 bales of wool, representing a value of about £340,000, have been bought and shipped from Melbourne to Boston, New York, and San Francisco, and buyers from Canada have also purchased about 2000 bales, representing a money value of £40,000, which, witbin the last few days, have been forwarded to Montreal by the Maggie Leslie. The claims made by the United States, which have been brought before the Arbitration Commission at Geneva, for direct losses caused by the depredations of the Alabama and other vessels alleged to have been fitted out in British porta during the civil war, amount to nearly £4,000,000. A case of animal poisoning is mentioned by the ' Carcoar Chronicle :'— A bullock died suddenly, and a portion

of the flesh was eaten by dogs, all of which died soon after. One of the men who Bkinued the beast, having a small wound on the forehead, happened to touch the spot with his hand, became infected with the poison, and died in consequence. Reflections should neyer bo cast on a plain young lady for consulting her looking-glass; she at any rate faces her difficulties. Meddlers are sure to hurt tbeir own characters; if you scrub other people's pigs you will soon need scrubbing yourself.

A money-lender serves you in the present, he lends you in the conditional mood, keeps you in the subjective, and ruins you in the future. A pretty hood—Childhood. A rooted sorrow—The toothache. Passed to a third reading—Love-letters.