MISCELLANEOUS.

Waikato Times, Volume V, Issue 275, 14 February 1874, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

If Spiv&ns » to be Wheved, there was recently an extra* ordinary case of dental surgery in this city. He say* that a friend of his Tinted a dentist on streot, for the purpoge of having atooth extracted. It was an eye tooth. Spirens aocompnnied his frirn.l for the purpose" of farouring him with ft little sympathy over the u'joulder. It is so pleasant to witnrs* tlie nffrtnj of n friend, nud to advise him to bear it liko a man. Tlie dentist sealed his patient in a chair, lanced his enmi, applied his fowp*, aud gave a rigorous pull. The tooth wns wrenched from its ooeket, and came out ea>ilv enough, but the root hung fire. Kituer it was & vitv lon root or it stretched. In fact, th« dentist had vxJointed his reHi*h, ami the root was not jet entirely out. Spirits ventured to inquire if tint root waj not unusually liiim ; but the dent^t was not going to ad'ni* that anything cm'd happen thiit had not itlrenriv occurred in his experienoe. 'Not at all,' he replied, 'I have I'ftcn pulled teeth whot>« roits reach down to the hipa.' He mounted the chair and took another pull. He thus succeeded in (jetting «way with about a yard of the tooth, but the root continued to hang. At the s.mie tune the pntient'a leg, belo* the knee, was violently jerked up. Spivens ventured to say that surely this wan an uinipntil case. 'Iti* a little singular,' replied the dentist ; ' but I once pulled a tooth whoie roots reached to the man's knees. Having thus extinguished his questioner, he tiod his patient to the chair and straightened out his leg by putting it in oplints. Then he took the forceps or«r his shoulder und walked iway like u deck hand going up a bank with a bowline. When he reached the parlour door he braced himselt against the ,j»mb, and laid bs<;k for a final pull. The tooth popped out, this time, buf t.ha dentist made the most noise wlien lie reached the floor Spiveiu jumped forward and picked up the latlur end of th« tooth. The tooth hud two prongs, and on tho end of each prong wai & loc-nail. ' That'll what hurt you &o,' «aid Spirens, conschng his friend, whoso screams had been somewhat annoying. ' Never mind, it will be all the same a humlrtd years hence. Don't you think, doctor, that tins is rather the moxt unusual case that ever happened in your practice ? ' 'lam mclmsd to beliere that it is the most singular dee of its class/ replied the impert urbublo dentist; ' but I once extracted a, tooth for one of tho Smvie&e Twins, the roots of whiob extended through the bodies of both, and at the end was a corresponding tooth fioui the mouth of the other. It was a pood thing for Chang, for whom I pulled the tooth, but bad for Enc, whose tooth hop jened to be sound.' Spivens's friend ! had such a high respect for the d -ntist that he told him that he might keep the tooth for his pay. Some credulous people may accuse this story of bring too thin : but they are mia- I taken — it is tooth out.— Tttusvilie Tress. Said a Scotchman to a pbTsioinn who was weighing twe grains of calomel for a child ■ D.u.^ be 10 mwu'wi 1 it • it te f^r » poor latberlesi. bairn '

The Oxfoid Union Debating dociety celebrated their Jubilee «a October 23rd at Oxfoid, when Minuter* of State, * Loid Chiticellor, Arch'rf-.hips, aa I other great di^mraiies rtoalled those struggles df youth over which "a glory of , reoollection is shod tint will n«vor invest the debates of Parliament or of Convocation. Archbishop Manning 'was one of the popular favorites at the evening, he and Mr Gathorno Hardy dividing apparently the hnnois of the enthusiastic cheering with thu University Caancellor, Lord Saiubury Ttta ineutioa of ilr Ul*.Utonq's nanW was received, — Bodcfaocueis youthful taste, with a hiss, but perhaps it was less because he is the Prime Minuter of tha Liberal party than because he could not mike timn to go to the dinner. The Attorney-General made aa amusing and striking speech in pr>posing the toast oi the Uriivermty of Oxford. He reminlul his heareis that O<ford'a greatest men, — Dr Newman and Dr Arnold, for examplehad liever formed schools or cliques, that there weie no Newmanians and no Aruoldians,— but for thaD very reason the influence of Newman and Arnold went far beyond that of party leaders ; and so it w.is with the University itself. The Government could not escape from Oxford, whether Conservatives or Liberals were in power. Ou oue side were Air Gladstone, Mr Cardwell, Mr Lowe, Mr (iosehen, Mr Monsell ; on the other, Mr Hardy, Sir S. Northoote, Mr Hunt, Mr > «{i»wL>ra>. >«, too, m the Houso ot Lords, on one side were Loid Grai'Ville, Lord Sellwrue, Lord Kirn ; on the other, the Duke of Richmond, Lord Salisbury, Lord Carnai von. Was he nor justified in siymg, Jisto perpetual Lord Salisbury rephe.l to the toasi, and waX very thankful for " Esto perpetua," but laughingly • ske i the Government in what seu<o Uxfoid was to be per>»etual. Was it without her endowments, or wuh them? in any case, however, the Union, as aii unendowed and > 'limitary society, might flourish lor ever, but tho Umveri ity was more dependent on the goodwill of a (iovernmeut. 1 c is almost a pity that this grand occasion was nor, cele- , brated by a formal debate held as much m ihe_old boyish » ty!e as dignitaries so great could still command. 'Lhey should have sent for Vrch leac >n L-uison to le id off - Ibid. Mr M'Cullagh Torrens has invented a uew foiw of amlresa to constituents —a kin I of royal ales&age. Muabury, lie siys, 18 too populous to addresa pemoudlh , so he sends Finibury a mepsage on politics, very eaietu.ly polislied, and reminding one in style of a cross between Ill's manifestos and Mr Disraeli's speeches — between the style of the interpreter of his a«e and of the uitic of it "Fear ti taxation is an exotic ou our soil, like the d cad of the evil eye." Again: — "To talk of ci hei [town or country householder] as unfit to have a vote because be lives beyond the range of gaslight, is to jest with ut wit or to fiowii without reason. The logic of assimilation ut lriesistible. and it will not be resisted." '1 hat same irieastiLle logic- is likely, we fear, to assimilate Mr M'Cullagh lon ens, in spito of his ambitious ims-iagp, to the Beciet toes ot the Government, and to get him trea ed ac 'ordmjiy. It is worthy o f note that he justifies in grandiesuly vague language hi» opposition to nne of the schemes ot the Lndowed Schools' Commission— that for the reconstruction ot Dul\nch Collego— on grounds shown by the stcretaryof the Commission, Mr KoWy, in a letter to Wednesday's Times, to be entirely imaginary. The interpreter of his age (to Finsbury) should not depise facts. — Spectator. Mdrne. NilbBf>n has recently been interviewed by an energetic reporter, and tho result is an account ot the enthusiastic manner in which the Rnsuans receiTed her. It appears that Mdine. Ndsson was almost despoiled at their hands. They rushed upon the stage in squids, appropriated her gloves, handkerchief, bouquet, «nd iun, and alnust tore the dreas off her body. The students improvised tliemse'.T -s into a pavement over which she was compelled to walk in. order to get to her carnage. On hir benefit night, when O\o opera wis over, the audience nm.le hei sma lius-«i«ii songs with her Imir all town, and altogether tluu-e wis^ucli un uproar us is seldom bt held anywhere else amoiitj civilz^l people upon the face of the earth. Tins i» all Tery tine, no doubt, but thi k of the enormous wear and tear it mu#t occasion to the nervous system. Let M line. Nila on thuult lie iron tlmt she c*n stand it, and that fie kind fates have perntUtid her once more* to set fo>t among a tenderer people, wln> do not express admiration for their idol by pulling ht*r to piecs an I prolonging tho various little aocejsoried of hjr d^n. — Orchestra. At a cerfnin printinz-offi:e where a work of tlio celebrated humorist. Theodore Hook, was being p uited, tlieie whs nn old compositor who went by the me ritttni- of ' Twaddle 'In completing a sheet of one of Mr Hook's novels, tne ropy >ag given out in small ' take 6 ' or puitiotrs, to each oi.e of which the compositor's name wa* as u*u»l appended When the proof was sent out to the author, there sppeurcd u line drawn down the margin of a certain p»ge with the word 1 Twnddle ' a ( tli« aide. Mr Hook retv ved hw proof, read it, and brought it buck to the offii-e. with ll>e lemark t!mt, 'though he was not above criticism, he did iot ih.nk tl.t* reader vms quite 'he man to make it ' A Yorkshire boy puts a sheeo-kin shirt on wlien he expects a 'licking' from the school-teacher, and the teacher ■ a amazed ntthe way thnt boy can hold out before tho hollies. Tfa« ibllowtffg tdveftrsC-niertt >» eVittentl, byiTplfilosDphftr : 1 If the person who took a fancy to u>y overcoat was influenced by the incleihencj of the weather, then, contrary ( o the west lier, all is serene ; but if he did so from commercial consideration!), I am ready o enter into fiuuncial negotiation* for its return.' i A most amusing blander occurred in n Paris newspaper lately. Two paragraphs which shou'd h'irc appeared sepinitelr, by some tm«hap got mixed, and they read as follows :• — ' Doctor X — — h:is been ap|>oiuted head plnsiuian to the Hospital de la Chariti — Orders having been issued by the ■uithorities for the immediate extension of the Cemetery of Mont Pasnaase, the works tro being executed with the utmost 'nupatch ' Like ttil WHt<" *<x>lor paintors, David Cox was very particular about the qualify of the paper he worked on. Tliere was a certain Scotch variety he loved heartily. The paper was Terv thick, and win to, w^h here and there little black or brown specks. In the landcoape part these S| ecks were of no consequence, but the; looked out of place in the sly. On one occasion, being asked what he did to get rid of them, he replied, ' Oh, I jukt put wings on them, and then they ily away ns birds ' Considering the exceedingly comic character of the Pilerim*,»«i just romOudeJ and the fnut tlimt «oorea of adticnted English ladies r..d gentlemen went to worship ot the shrine of a lunatic and hjsteric nun, Pope Punch t'te First, and only, hereby 'out of his pi ace mid poochi se,' confeicupon those remarkable pilgrims the stjle mid title of Alacoikotoruins. — Punch. Irascible Old Party : ' Gunrd, why didn't jou wake me, w I asked jou P Heie I nn, miles beyond tm station!' Guard : I did try, sir ; but all I could get you to say wns, " All right, Maria, get the children their breakfast, and I'll be down in a minute !" A quaker having sold a fine-looking but blind horse, a^ked the purchaser, " Well, my friend, dostthou see any lauit in him?" "No," was the answer. "Neither will he see any fault in thee," said old Broadbrim. A negro preacher observed to his bearers at the close of his seinion as follows : — ' My obstmaeious bredien, I find it am no more use to preach to you d in it urn for a gia»»l>opper to wear knee-buckles. A woman msrr ed to her second husband recently said to him : ' Oh, how happy poor Charles would be. if he were at ill alive, to see himself replaced by a man as agreeable as you are ! '