MISCELLANEOUS READING.

Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1642, 8 November 1873, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS READING.

v TOO TRUE. Horace Greeley thus hits the nail on the head : — " It is strange how men read the •papers. , ri ;We^npe^a7^aji^Jdng4hat 'anybMy' don't like, but we "are sure to soon hear of it. " . If, |Eopever,TPnse in a while, we happen to say a good thing, we -never,hear^of-that;.tWeipay^3giEgSl®^-dred compliments, .anfij give him a dozen puffs, make splendid 5 speeches for him, arid out of nonsensical, harangues made on public platforms rh'ake^him appear to say something brillian^^fid|ne takes it all as a tribute to his^eaineßs, and he never thinks it does him : any good. , - But.if t we happen toiay^thlngs ithis, man dbn'tflike, or something he /imagines .is. a reflection on his (Character,; see how, quick he J, gets mad and flares-up about it. All bur evils are ( cluly \cHalked ru agaih's'it/;us ;. but we rieveFapparently'get any^ cVbdit 1 fb^what good We do." ' .^m^V//-., A ,<;}-.' i!i '■ REAL^ AND STAGE < hBUpHSASTGEIfe. ' . ThefdUbwing^s^qry^.tdlo! by'the Tasmanian " Tribune ;f^"!it, b.!s -^ell- ;- known fact that hojsesjwhicli'; h&yp.'pij'cQ served in a cavalry corps will afways prick up their ears at the call of, the bjigle,' iand endeavor to take their place in the' ranks of .the squadron, whence iiheiweitjknptra sound proceeds.; A feeling of a somewhat similar character must have animated a once celebrated Tasmanian bushranger who witnessed the performance of the ' Lass of Lancashire' 1 from thepitfef '^our theatre the other evening. In the New South Wales scene, where Mpdtibefim]' the bushranger,^ hotly pursued>byja band of diggers, half-staryediand with his clothes all torn, rushes into the presence of Ruth, and asks .for .'arms and 'money, the!exbandit gazed upon the stage '^representative of "his" late 'prpfession';; with" a con-temptuous-eye, and sneeringiy exclaimed, { Tou^re a pretty bushranger j^why. dgn't you .steal the ; arms, as I o)id ?|' 'Tlfe' words fell from Martin CMh/pnce.the'terrof of Tasmania, but how a respectable farmer residing at Glenprchy." ;,,'" "'^!:.|' i ;j"j. A GUIDE FOR M.H.Rv's.^ "i '" } About the beginning of the present century there was a Scotch member of the House of Commons whose condensed experience, . axiematically put, . n isght teach members of our own Parliament how h" ttle advance .has been made in the meantime in the. practice of 'politics. Ferguson, of JPitfpur,,. was a. warm? supporter of Pitt,, and heused thus to epitomise, for the guidance of young members, the results of his own Parliamentary career :—" I was never present it'- any debate I could-avbid; or abseut- from any division I could get at. I have' heard many arguments which convinced my judgment, but'never one that influenced my^vPte. ' I never vpted but once according to my own opinion j :arid that was the worst vote I ever gave. Ifoundthat-the only way to be quiet in Parliamentrwas always to vote with -Ministers, and *neler to take a place."- . ; •< , . -, ;iVi

MIXED MARRIAGES.

A member of thb New ' South Wales Legislature, Mr Stewart, has • introduced an extraordinary ßill, which .is fas fellows: — " Whereas it has been custbnla^^with certain r clergy men, when the marriage ceremony between a Protestant and a .Roman Catholic, to exact a solemn promise from the Protestant that the "offbpring of the marriage shall be brought vp i or -educated; in- the. Roman. Catholic faith ; and .whereas. .'to exact sucht a promise is deemed a derogatory and immoral encroachment upomthe' religious liberty pf the community, and iricensistetitfwith - the supremacy of constitutional government: Be it therefore enacted by. the Queen's Mcst -Excellent Majesty,- by rand with the advice and consent bf the Legislative Council and Legislative Assembly of 'New l South Walesa in Parliament assembled, . and by .the autibority of the same, as follows :—l. After the passing of this Act, it shall not be lawful for. any persen to 'prpmise, consent, agree; or swear that his children shall be educated in any form of religious faith except in that which he holds himself, and any such prpmise, consent, agreement, or oath shall be deemed null and vpid.' 2. Any person who ' shall induce, entice, 'of 'coerce another person into any violation of the foregoing section of this Act shall be deemed guilty , of misdeameanour, vand shall, upon conviction thereof, be tenced to; ■imprisonment! : notj (exceeding one year, apd to pay a fine not exceedJpg LSO. 3. This Act may be cited aa^Bm * Unlawful Promises let of 1873.* " v ! GUlXlioiikED.

The Paris correspondent of a contemporary, relates the fpllpwing :— " K decapitated heads cannot maintain an uninterested - cohversatipn, they : ckn reaain frightfully expressivefpr a good half hour. A ; parricide- was executeditt'Lyiims^some weeks agp ; the culprit was a most intelligent and handsome man, and-was-con-ducted to the guillotine barefooted and veiled, the. costumedecreed for parricides. On his head beingfstruck off, the trunk bounded over into the coffin, bursting the leather straps which were tied to the pl^k. Gppsiderable, force :Was requiredjlqjprevent the head from continuing that rotating motion which ' ensues on falling into the basket, and, even, when more sawdust was thrown in ; the gyratic movement continued all the same; Conveyed to the school of anatomy along with the ,trunk, the. eyes there continued r atilLto move, had, a ; seyere expression ; spake •' the ilips at the; same time continued to move. Even after a cast of the features /had been taken, the muscular motion could still be traced. The demonstrator of anatomy promises to read, a paper before tie v Acadeniy Pf Medicuie 6n these very singular phenomena. " ! v ; ,

■ ATHLEirc^TEAIis'ING. It ißgopd™news, and worth communicating therefore, that^ft the recent university boat race in the' States manyof the;. .crows/, dispensed^ ;.» with -professional training, and sought, says the. Newjfprk ccrresppndent pf /the; l f Sydney Morning Herald," to bring themselves into fine condition by the following ordinary rules of healthy living— plenty of good food, plenty of fresh air, a. fair amount of exercise, and, above all, abundance of sleep— -arid the event has -justified them. Two days before. the ; college boat race two of the foremost professional oarsmen in America,! had Keen thorbugEly "trained" on the traditional raet^oa— Ellis Ward 'and" John Biglih-^rowed a race on the same, course, and Ward broke dpwn, before he'^had /'got 'pyer twp-thirds pf the distance, with congestion of the lungs and brain. , He was,, taken out pf his bbat morei dead t^a^'alive^ and il was feared for an hour or two that he would

pc oor Renf ©rth, the English oarsman 4 did at St. John's, a couple of years ago,; pf bver-trainihg. j Two pr three .of the college i crews stuck to the professional Bystem, but these all came in among the tag-rag-and-,bobtaU4; #he three mUes were covered by the winning boat in 16min. 16sea, and that is a good deal better time than will be made in our Melbourne regatta by "trainfid" men. Nor is the mode of^iroimrig: a mere " Yankee notion." The" greatest athlete of the! agei Captain Barclay^ has put on record how he obtained the jfihest condition of his life, just' before one of his most procUgibtwfeatshHe* had spent some months m the; Scbtefo /Highlands grouse shooting and deer stalking j to bed with the disappearance of the_sun, and up as scon ..as the, ,'l' glorious, god s>l day" had warmed the mountain, and doing a sportsman's justice to the simple meals placed before him. Such a life gave Barclay his finest condition. The young men who follow his hints will not come to the post as white as ghosts, nor at the end of the pall wUI they iaint over their oarsi

Smith's bosom friend is a pearl shirtbutton ; his head servant is a barber ; and and his last foreman was a shoemaker. Mrs Manoverer says she possesses great resources in her dear daughters, only she has- not yet been able to husband them. 5 Tfte yonng poet who went ; about sighing ( for "an aDgel in 'the house," 1 got married recently) and now he sighs more than ever. '.Vw .-? t %-r- ■:•■ ■••■ : :

"Pat, you are wearing your stockings wrong side outward." vOch,u Och, and don't I know it, to be sure ! There's a hole on the.other side, there is." We know a young man that knows a young; lady; that says she » would as lief have a good kiss' as a new bonnetj and we have sent word that we would quite as lief, if not liefer, give it to her.