MISCELLANEOUS.

Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1007, 24 September 1872, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

Underthe heading of "Steam v. Sail," the ' San Francisco News Letter' of May 11th, says • —" The steamship Mohongo, Captain Bennett, of "Webb's Australian Line, made the run to Honolulu in eleven days. The barque D. C. Murray, Captain Shephard, sailed same day for same port in J. C. Merrill's Packet Line. The two vessels crossed the bar about tho same time, and ' nip and tuck ' sped their way. across tho briny deep. The Mohongo entered the port of Honolulu just twenty minutes ahead of the barque. Oh ! what a victory ! " Calijfornian Humour. Late reports from the San Diego mines are of the most encouraging character. Whisky is ten dollars a jugful, and potatoes 75c. a drink. Beef is rated according to quality; that in barrels is held highest, because it is not so easily stolen, but a moderately fat ox costs 15 cents, if skinned. There is no demand for pork since the butcher was detected selling the body of One-Eyed Jake. Everybody is hopeful, and business is not injured by competition. All the ladies have been tarred and feathered, and there is a brisk demand for patent ore-crushers from Boston. It is expected that some kind of surface indication will be discovered during the coming summer, but at present the talent of the district is devoted to swapping dogs, erecting mills, and fabricating pancakes.—' San Francisco News Letter. One does not look for comicalities amongst cooks, neither does one expect to find humorous verse in the colums of ' The Times,' where housemaids, footmen, butlers, and pages advertise their capabilities. However, in the columns of a recent issue of ' The Times ' may be discovered a very remarkable advertisemeut, that we venture to give it "in extenso ": — " Required, by a gent, near to Bromley, in Kent, a cook, on plain cooking intent. Sue need not make entremets, sauces, or jellies, that cause indigestion and irritate b—lies ; enough if she's able to serve up a dinner that won't make her master a dyspeptic grinner. If asked to make bread, no excuse she must utter; must be able to churn, and to make melted butter. If these she can do—eke boil a potato, and cook well a chop with a sauce call'd tomato, the writer won't care to apply further test, that she's up to her work, and knows all the rest. She must be honest, industrious, sober and cleaD, neat in her garb, not a highly dressed quean ; and must be content, whatever her age is, with sugar and tea, and £2O wages. Address , Postoffice, Bromley, Kent."