MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Westport Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1160, 20 March 1874, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Josh Billings says : " There iz but phew things on the face ov this earth more worthless than a poodle, and yet i am glad there iz poodles, for if there was not there iz sum people who wouldn't have enny object in living, and hav nothing tew luv."

A project has been submitted to keep ihe Eric Canal open all winter, by means of hot water pipes on each side, along its entire length, to be supplied from boilers half-amilc apart. The cost,

it is s dd, would be as nothing to the result. The belle who originated the Grecian bend is stopping at Saratoga. Remorse is painted on her once cheerful countenance. She says, though she bent so much, she never arrived at a satisfactory beau. A little plat of ground, thickly sown, is better than a large field uncultivated. Gold does not satisfy love. That must be paid in its own coin, Why are pigs like fashionable women? Because they wear a curl behind. A New "Reading.—A horse in the stable is worth six in the bush. A master should sometimes be blind : his servant sometimes deaf. We have all heard of the ' flowers of rhetoric'—its fruits are the Queen's peach. To get a sound nap: Listen to a sermon in a fashionable church.

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