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Samoa Times and South Sea Gazette, Issue 2, 13 October 1877, Page 4

A game much in vogue on board ship in a heavy sea—Pitch and toss, National health is national wealth, but the reverse is not equally true. An English "Miss" abroad —In a young lady's book of travel we find Cologne called the " sccntiinental city." A lawyer attempting to say a word for his client after the jury had found him guilty, the judge sternly stopped him and said : " Your client, sir. is both a knave and a fool." " And he's been tried by a court and jury of his peers, added the lawyer, A good story is told of a dispute entered into by a Scotchman and Englishman as to which of their respective countries had produced the most eminent men. livery name was claimed by the .Scotsman as that of a man who had been kirn north of the Tweed, till finally the Englishman said : " Surely, you won't claim Shakspearc as a Scotsman !" "Weel," replied the canny Scot, "if Shakspearc wasnn a Scotsman, he was clever enough to be ane." It is gratifying to notice that even tie' string*-ncy of the ti s does not tempt-good-men from the path of truth. A stranger was in town yesterday trying to sell for a curiosity an old compass, which he stated had been in his family for over 500 years, and was reported to have once been owned by Pontius the pilot, though he frankly said he could not vouch for the last statement.