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Colonist, Volume XXX, Issue 5017, 28 September 1887, Page 3

An' old man of severity, named Eugene Denizot, who occupied a garret at 10, Rue __ de Brosses, Paris, died suddenly the other morning. The police commissary who was called in was leaving the wretched room, after throwing a rglance around, when he accidentally overturned an old table, the drawer of which fell out, and with it a stream of Napoleons, amounting, as it turned out, to 100,000f, A further and close search in the garret led to the discovery of notes and securities representing 900,000 more. The old miser was never known to receive any one, and is supposed to leave no heir. Sell your rocking chairs and enjoy the balance of your live's sitting 'bolt upright. Rocking chairs, make people deaf and near sighted, says a scientist. If science keeps on and we heed it, it will rob us of every comfort except our religion. A Yankee walked into a Massachusetts court one day, and spent some time in watching the proceedings By-an-by a man was brought up for contempt of court and fined; whereupon the stranger, rose and said, • How much was the fine ? ' « Five dollars,' replied the usher. ' Well, said the stranger, laying down the money, ' If that's all, I'd like to jine in. I've had a few hours' experience of this, Court, and po one can feel a greater . contempt for it than Ido and I am willing to pay for it.'