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Colonist, Volume XX, Issue 2355, 28 February 1878, Page 3

Ax old couple visited the Dublin theatre where the great Mra Siddons was then playing " Mra Bailer," and the poor bodies were kept'crying the whole evening. At length; at one of the scenes where the great lady came in with her handkerchief again to. her eyea, the old man could stand it no longer, and, starting to his; fact, cried out—"Ye long'nosedl thief, d'ye call this divarahun ?" r ' How the red head disappeared.—A former minister at Kelso had a great dislike to any one " takin' notes" during a sermon, and . . was much annoyed by a red haired- exciseman from the Highlands who persisted in doing so. The minister determined to " pay him out" for this, aud one Sunday in the course of a sermon on regeneration, he said, - " My brithren, if ye're not all born again it's as impossible for ye to enter into the kingdom of heaven aB it is for a Hielander no' to be a thief; - Now ye tow head there withe keeleyyine, see.an 1 tak' doun that ane.' f The red' hesd disappeared, and the reverend gentleman was'unmolested for the future." - ; -• ''"' '■ ' : "■- ---• TfltfEAW and the Pbophets.—A dispute about precedence once arpße upon a circuit between; a bishopl and a judge; and' after some altercation the latter thought heshbuld quitel confoundhiß- opponent by, quoting the foilowin'grpassage :~'For on theße two hang all the; law* and • the prophets." " I)o you riot see^'i'fcaid 1' the'l judged in. trinmph, l "that ereri in this passage or the Scriptures we are mentioned first?." :" I ' grant you," wpliod the bishop } " you hiog lint.