MISCELLANEOUS.

Dunstan Times, Issue 589, 1 August 1873, Page 3

MISCELLANEOUS.

—oFormerly we treated those with whom we differed in theology to a hot stake, now we only offer them a cold shoulder. Anxious mother—“ Charley, howdoyou like your new governess —(Six years old) “ Oh, 1 like her lirst rate, and I think pa does to ; for whenever you ixfy out, he is always kissing her, and he tells her that her lips are as sweet as honey.” An Indiana man took a friend home to lea the other evening without giving his wife notice. That night she talked herself into a paralysis of tongue. Now all the min in the neighborhood are sending for friends and taking them home £at all Lours. A one legged Brooklyn printer, whose rubicund visage indicated a fondness for stimulants, entered Justice Walsh’s Court, on crunches, and asked fora warrant against his wife. He stated that she had absconded, while he was in bed, taking with her, among other things, his wooden leg. Junius Brutus Booth appeared as lago in Richmond, Va, recently, and in the audience was a somewhat unsophisticated individual who inquired of a gent'-eman sitting near him Is this the play in which a nigger marries a white woman 'and then chokes her to death 5” An appropriate rep’y was given. The questioner then rose to leave, remarking : “ Well, then, darned if I want to see it. “ T won’t da for old Virginny.” The following coating has proved very effective in preventing the penetration of moisture on the weather side of walls : Pitch, 501b : rosin, 301b. ; red ochre, Clb. ; fine brick dust, 121b. all boiled together, with constant Stirling, an 1 then sufficient oil of turpentine—about one quarter the volume of the above—added to cause it to spread readily. It ie to bo laid on as thin as possible with a bristle brush. It is well known that leather articles kept in stables soon become brittle, in consequence of the ammoniacal exhalations, which affect both harness hanging up in such localities and the shoes of those who frequent them. The usual applications of grease are not always sufficient to meet this difficulty; but it is said that by the addition of a small quantity of glycerine the leather wall be kept continually in a soft and pliable condition. A good story is told of a gentleman dining with a merchant. A dusty old bottle of | wine had been carefully dccaatered, and a glass filled. “ Now-, you can’t guess what that cost me?” said the host. not. I only know'that it is excellent.”— “ Well, now, I can tell you, for I made a careful estimate the other day. When 1 add the interest to the first price, I find that it cost me the sum of just five shillings per glass !”—“ Good gracious ! You don’t say so !” said the gentleman ; and then, draining his glass, he hastily presented it again, with the remark, “ Fill up) ag-un as quick as you can, for I want to stop that confounded interest.” The Croswiok A her User reports—There resided at Spring Hill, to within a few days ago, a young man named Dominie Sense, afflicted in a most remarkable manner, for, although twenty-three years of age, he is only twenty-one inches in height, and his weight only forty- live pounds. He lias no use whatever of his logs, which are only about nine or ten inches in length, and very small. The arms are proportionate to the body in length, but do not possess sufficient strength to lift; their own weight. If So ise were lifted up by his arms they would break. His method of locomotion is by the aid of two small cratches and a tin basin, which he has fastened on the lower portion of his body, the legs hanging out and just touching the ground. Ho rests or the basin whan not in motion, and without its aid lie would be unable to remain npri dit. The Height of his ambition seems to bo to possess a pony and cart to enable him to sell books or some other kind of merchandise. Ho is very fond of making toys from deal wood, and is rather expert with his knife His mother has been afflicted for the past seven years with almost total blindness, but is now' slowly recovering. Sarah Smith stands sorrowfully' solus ; she sees splendid spruces surrounding shady spots ; she sees summer’s sun shining ; she she smells sweet savors ; sweet songsters singing silvery strains-serenade Sarah. Still she sighs. Sunsets soft shades settle silently, still she stands sadly sighing. Suddenly she startled. She saw some strangerotroliiug silently southward. ‘Stop!’ she shouted. ‘ Stop, stranger. Sarah Smith says so.’ Samuel Slocum, successful statesman, smooth speaker, started, saw Sarah, seemed surprised, said soliloquisiugly : “Strange; seemingly scarce sixteen ; so sweet, so simple, still so singularly suspicious. She seems strangely sad. Say something Sarah.” She, stopping silent struggles, said : “ Surely some stranger seeing sights. Shall Sarah Smith shun such: scarcely.” So, strolling silently' strangerwml, she said : “Sarah Smith scorns suspicions scandals. She seeks sympathy ; seeks she successfully ?” Still shone silvery streams slanting southward. Samuel Slocum sat sweetly' smiling ; Sarah Smith seated suspiciously somewhere. Sunset’s serene splendor sug-gested supper. Still she sat She sought sympathy successfully ; supper seemed superfluous, j Some six Sundays succeeding she signed some sketches Sarah Smith Slocum.