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New Zealand Herald, Volume XI, Issue 4048, 3 November 1874, Page 3

The PcKAL Authorities o>- Spiritualism. Militiamen. Aren't they disembodied eleven months out of twelve? —Punch. A curious misprint appeared a day or two ago in the Times. After stating, in the Parliamentary report, that various votes were agreed to, it says: —"The chairman was then ordered to repeal prayers," instead of report progress. In fact, the Times lias been full of blunders lately (says an English contemporary). A New York journal of Juuc 17 relates that liow sad it is to have one's bright anticipations quenched in a nignt, was discovered by a young Englishman the other evening. He determined to attend a masked bail and with genial discrimination chose to do it ill the character of a monkey. The ni"lit was fine though cold, and he was of a frugal miud ; so instead of taking a carriage, he set out to walk in costume from liis hotel to the ball, two blocks distant. Cheerfully walkin" along in the habit of his forefathers, he was°suddenly descried by two immense dogs, which, not able calmly to endure the si"lit of a monster of so frightful a mien, immediately bounced after him. The poor young man scampered, and with great pressence of mind frantically climbed a high board fence, and there on the sharp edge of the same, in the cool night air, he reposed for two hours, -while the big doga beneath sat serenading him and the moon, and the dance went gaily on in that ball-room so near and yet bo far.