MISCELLANEOUS.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 108, 31 January 1879, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

- « The ' West C >asfc Times ' says thafc a young ealmon, measuring 7'U, long was caught afc the Kin< ri la-*t week. It was immediately returned to the water, the hook whioh ea ighfc it gently beuig easily removed. The youug fish leceotly deposited iv tne H>kitik» river are evidently thriving, as this is the second or third i ccasion on which a good-sized trout or salmon has been seen A heartless case of cm Ity to animals was broiicht t • ligbt a few days <-iuce. Ie appears tat two d 'g , whioh 1 a<t previously iietr-n allowed to feXis l- . "D dr}' boo a aud si% were, a?t~r oeiuij redu.ed to snin an I bon*-, locked up iv a room without eitb-r food or water. They *■.*••« at the tim so we; k tb t they could nofc traka an effort to jjet out although a dash through a window cou'd easily have been made. The stiffened booias of the j*o -r brutes were, after t « ai ima's bad been locked up for over a week wish<u& anyone having be«.n to see ihem, observed by an individual who was gvzng in through on<» *of the window s. such cruelty is deserving of severe pnoiahmeut, but doubtless the arm of the law oannot reach the iuhunun owner if the doj.s. A man whose brother had been hung ou beiig asked i-ome particulars in relation to the death of the deceased, rela e<l tbat. •* while be was addressing a la- go as-emhlage of people, who were listening t«> his remarks with the deepest interest, a portion of the platform on which he w«s standing gave way benea'h him, whereby he was prec : pirated several feet with such violence as to break his utck." A good story is told of a scapegoat whom a mentor reminded tbat bis aunt had paid his debts, and that he should be more submissive tp the wishes of hia. relative- 3'he young good-for-nothipg did not take much heed of the sermon ; but when his creditors ..were" mentioned, .£• had a real grievance? " Yes, yes;" he^al-. lowed coolk,^" my aunt paid my credi. tors ; towhat boa blie'done for me V