MISCELLANEOUS.

Evening Post, Volume XIV, Issue 49, 26 August 1876, Page 1 (Supplement)

MISCELLANEOUS.

A lady living in Milwaukie has a piece of soap in the house supposed to be a hundred years old, and she says " None of our family ever felt the slightest temptation to use it." A Connecticut man, whose son was ill, appealed to ihc physician — " Do bring him out of it right away, doctor ; do break up the fever at once, even if you charge as much as if he went through a whole course of fever."

It is too bad that Mr. Agnew has not only to suffer the loss of his expensive Gainsborough, but to hearalio the sardonic comments of the cynics who will have it, such ia the perversity of fallen human nature, that the robbery is a " plant," intended to pile the Ossa of an additional sensation on the top of the Pelion of the origional sensation caused by the fancy price of the picture ; the object of this additional sensation being that tens of thousands instead of thousands should crowd to see the picture sensationally recovered in due time, and the engraving list should become overflowingly full. Said cynics wag thair sagacious heads, and revive unpleasant q\fesli<ftiß concerning the alleged loss of the Dudley jewels, as if the two cases were on_all-fours. _. As we all know Charles Dickens was a poet, and about the poet there is always something of a seer. Surely the following passage from Little Dorrit wears a prophetic complexion : " * Pray does IVIr. Henry Cowan paint — ha — portraits V " inquired Mr. Dorrit. Mr. Sparkler opihed that he painted anything if he got the job. 'He has no particular walk V- said Mr. Dorrit. . . . <No speciality? This being a very long word for Mr. Sparkler, and his mindj,being exhausted by his late eflbr^nfe replied, ' No, thank you, I seldom take it' " :