Miscellaneous.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 24, 24 December 1874, Page 6

Miscellaneous.

; Wfyen Portland woman, chases hep h.oy with a brooifl, he runs down oii a wttarf and jumps into the water. When he comes out. his face is washed, his mother dqe§ ijot know him, and he is safq.

A little bsoy having broken his rocking horse the day it -was purchased, his mamma began to scold, when he silenced her by inquiring, ". What is the g0.0,d ofa Ijorse till it's broken ?"

Tl}e tFishkill Standard' publishes this item under the head of ," A Ripple; from Africa ":— Ouy. new Supervisor, has a darkey who the other day was attending to some duty on thVlawi}, n^ar the. road, and sig or eight friends of his owip. color- were leaning on the fence, evidently to sea that the thing was properly done. That witty contraband, Ike Belily, happened to pass just at this time, and, meeting •Dr MKpes, inquired, "Br : Mapes, who's dead at Masser Husti's V "No one, I think," replied the doctor. ". Oh, yes," persisted; Ike, ", there, must -be. somebody dead, -there, for sartin sure." '.. " Why, I am positive not," saidV the doctor, «' foi; I should certainly have, heard of it if there had been a, 'death in the f amity v « Then,'?- exclaimed |ke, rais-i ing his voice, and pointing to the.longlazy row of his sable, brethren hanging on the pickets, '^what's a,li dis ver mournin' for, strung along, de fence '?" " What do you seIJL those fowls for ?" inquired, a person of a man attempting, to dispose of some chickens of a questionable appearance. «' I sell them for profits,'^ was the answer. " Thank you for the information that they are prophets," responded,' the querist, "I' took them to be patriarchs." , Max Adelei*, in hj.s Burly Burly book, dissents from the infallible Richard Grant White's dictum, respecting the. substitution of i' being" for " is being." and "■ floing '*■ for .«.' is dojhg." He don't Hike- the,- innp^atipn. , He says ; I" Suppose yoji, wish to express the idea that our boy^ Agamemnon,; is enduring ; chastisement, you, would say, ' Agamiemnon, is beipg spanked; hot ' Again-. emnon.is.spanMhg-' The difference may seem s%ht,tp,ybu,.buf it ypuld be .a matter of consid'exa||le importance to ; Agamemnon ; ; and- if^ a/chbiceseould be." given' hiqa^it ijslprobab}; th^t he would, suddenly selec|i : . On. Saturday^ moiidirig ' a ;! troop oft rustics., predated,' tj-^i^lyes ■'■&. the.Preston Parish' churchj^h^ 'feniales mall > the glory . of /ne«r . /ffibyvns, ; Tadient - shawls, and ftysiws^^ and, the males., in^a^Mvir; suits^^eryconspicuous' qep&fcms ',* and-! white); co^tonf jglpves. jThey, were too; 1 late j'the^clergy-; man .waited until his patitinge was;- '(exhausted, and, had gohe ;hoii_eV ; 'Blank dismay .fell upon: fthe^^ palrty;;lrat tne. clerk goop^nat;^ lip by offering -to, send, ipr ; his 'revefehce.' A messenger was him, buj. .fiejjwas so long' in, returning that, the : . clerk's' pati^npe^ /evaporated' also, ani he left. : , I^;ji\tetf ; 'W'nuteß' after, he h^.gqneV^^^j^s^\'^am^ up; and a messenger %^dfispht:'ched foi*: the clerk, but. as noKpfitf knbwf ' wh[at ; , direction he : l^ad,ta^e^^ time to find him., "."• In the toeantiMe'thei wedding party .'.'adjourned/. toVaiieigli-' boring, public .for;^ a, d^kl* afc length.^the cleric was\ fp^hd; ;'%<&y-. were, hastily f summoned';fortK^ Wurchj' but when' they ' presented^ Jf " $c, hymeneal altar '$$os^ss^ his" amassment:'; and _inc^gSaQit|[s ; ,t6at the greatep, numbpr eluding, the jn tpncje# bnde|;f o'om,; here pp^iyetyjvd^ te&ing theii^ ,^^ecgye^p^M- 'in •the 7 solemn cer@j^^^ ness. He^ao^^^ to „the. ;whpjte7pa|%^ with 'teqerembny^ ''a^m^mS^^: party, with sbmeWdy^ r shpuld ; the^s^^ff^ok^Mmrselyes„they must ; 'Sco^L ;spj(jeK ITh^e