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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 838, 18 July 1879, Page 2

In Texas, a doctor rode fifty miles to attend a patient. When he had cured the patieut he presented a bill for fifty dollars, and proceeded to complete his preparations for his back journey, think- ' ing no more about the matter. As he was about to mount, the patient's husband put m an appearence, with his trusty rifle m his hand. " Doctor," said he, " reckon we'd better settle this here matter now. You wasn't agoin' off without a settlement, was you ? I don't i want to owe no man nothin. Here's a ten, which I reckan is about the squar thing. Now, if you ain't satisfied, jest get your weepon on and come round behind the hill thar, so's the old woman won't be riled up, and we'll settle it. I don't want no man to go 'away from my house dissatisfied, 'specially you, doc." Pardoned Communists are beginning to arrive m Paris m considerable numbers. Strange to say, most of them are determined to emigrate, and Australia is believed to be the cynosure of their desires. Mrs. Witney's " Key' to the Cook's Book " is a good work ; but it is not half as satisfactory, when a man is hungry, as the key to the pantry.