Amusing.

Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 649, 13 November 1874, Page 7

Amusing.

A witty lady says of the people of a certain town where she has gone to reside, " They are very pleasant, very intellectual, very delightful in a distant sort of a way, and talk to you like so many books ; but w~J? en y° u approach them socially, they all climb into their genealogical trees as though they were frightened.' 1 Sweets for sweet— ln Minnesota is a most extensive manufacture of Limburger cheese. One hundred and twenty cows contribute to the formation of the article. It is said that the cheese is considered " ripe " when a piece the si;se of a bean will drive a dog out of a tan yard. "In my fertile country," said a Leicestershire man, " you can turn a Worse into a field new mown, and the next morning the grass will be grown above his hoofs " " Pooh ! that's nothing," cried a Yorkshire man ; " you may turn a horse into a field in Yorkshire, and not be able to find him next morning:."

Division of Labor. — The editor of the Columbia (S,C.) 'Mail' with grateful eloquence acknowledged the receipt of a bottle of milk punch in one column, and in the nexb published " A Temperance Department." Somebody has complained of his inconsistency, and he explains that the "editor of the * Mail' has nothing to do with what' goes into the temperance column of his paper, nor have the gentle men who conduct that department anything to do with what goes into the editor of th* ' Mail.' "

Garibaldi's friend Bixio bad an utter contempt for decorations and orders of all kinds, but being invited to dine with the Kinsj of Italy, was Earnestly entreated by a friend to waive his scruples and to put on a commander's ribbon of the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus. Bixio sacrifice.^, hjs feelings, but knowing little of the manner of putting on sijch gewgaws, he had the ribb6n and the cross S.ew^d pn to the collar of his shirt. After the enteptainmenj;, B,ixio returned home, and wishing i>o retire tp rest, endpavqred^

' * 'ttstftStl t&P d^poFatfop, but bei,ng unable to - - xo go to bed and to do so de. -"^ he awoke. The leave takmg it ott «.. ■ j found next morning his friend called anu

Bixio not yet risen, and with the green ribbon round his neck. " It's a fine idea," he cried, *' to tell me that you despise decorations, and yet you go to bed in them!"