Amusing.

Bruce Herald, Volume IX, Issue 893, 30 March 1877, Page 3

Amusing.

A butoher's sign out West reads as fallows ;—" John Jacobs kills pigs, like his father." "I allow that Job was patient," remarked a farmer j "but he never seen a determined Shanghai hen Bitting on a nest of biled eggs." A man may love domestic quiet and harmony enough to keep his mouth shut while his wife's relations are in the house, but when he sees one of his ruffled shirts on his brother-in law, what wonder if he teels that he must go down to the cellar a,nd Bh,oyel coal or burst ? A Yankee, to economise the scratching power of a hen, places her and chickens in a narrow cage, just wide enough to fit betwppa the rows of potatoes. The cage is moved along between until the ground has been thoroughly scratched, the potatoes nicely hoed, and all the insects eaten, I see that at Bristol a gentleman (deaf and dumb) has taken to wife a lady equally endowed by Nature. What a vice quiet tranquil family for a student to board and Jodge with! But how if the gentleman stops out late ? It seems, to me that the dumb alphabet in the dark is about as useful as Bryant and May's safety matches when you have lost the box. By the bye, when & deaf and dumb individual exceeds, do his fingers become thick, and* do they instinctively reject long words ? The fallowing note, which we publish verbatim, is not an extraordinary example of the way in which managers are add re. sied by irresponsible persons. Whether the young reporter was allowed to **paa," or whether he wrote a full "acount," or who the president of the press " Asit " may be, or what its papera are, we are not yet informed :— Jan ett & Palmer Manager's Sir it you Will be kind enough to let thia young reporter pas he Will take a full acount of the performances as we have plenty of space ia our papers as it Will do for filling up Tours truly president of the presi A tit,