AND THE UNTHINKING CROWD LAUGHED.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8003, 16 June 1894, Page 4

AND THE UNTHINKING CROWD LAUGHED.

In the Richmond (Melbourne) court recently two men, named Jarae Hendenon and John Lee, appeared in custody to answer a .charge o' vagranoy. They had been arrested or. the previous night in ao anteaactoi house. Tbe prisoners appeared it> patchwork garb, in which id wa Impossible to distinguish which wa< (he original material. Hendoreon, io • soft, effeminate voice, said he had rerved aa a Boldier in tbe Crimes. The spectators laughed immoderately 1 It's a fact, your worship/ lie added, ' and we can't be vagrants, for we are never without money.' Sergeant Hanlon : Only Lee had money od him, your worships, Henderson Quite right, sergeant ; I gave him what I had to mind for me, as I vrat afraid of losing it. (Renewed laughter ) The Bench : What do you do for living 1 Prisoners : Make dummies for tailors, yoar worships. (ScreamB of laughter.) When the magistrates bad reoovered, Henderson assured them that he liked the diatriot so well that he and his tnabe had agreed to take ■ little cottage and settle down. Sergeant Hanlon : I don't think that wonld be very advisable, your worships. The Bench : We would rather you ehould get away altogether. There are too many Gres being caused by men o' your stamp. The prisoners expressed their willingness to do the court desiied, and they were discharged with a caution.

A porioo doesn't worry much over the lie be iin'b oaught in. Mosoow ie Btid to have 1706 ' big belln,' the amalleit of which weigh* 5000 pouodB, and the largesb 413,772, Ten per cent of the inhabited houses of England snd Wales are iu London. It iin'fe t'ways the full pocketbook bfc»t rans over first. 8el/-conoeit is a vulgar fraction whose numerator is ' I ' and whose denominaor is 'mine.' A iqatra copper coin, struck by the Swedish governmant, in the sixteenth century, is neirly one-balf inch (hick jmd weighs a pound and a quarter. The tiro highest iabubited npaa on earth are Aarvichiary and Mucapata, mining oampa in the Andes. The former his in elevation of 17,050 feet. Firemen were driven out of a burning store in New York by the odor of burning snuff, which Bet them •II to sneezing violently.