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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1854, 11 December 1874, Page 2

A Mississippi Bbide.—A Mississippiira married a widow- for her money, and on the wedding night possessed himself of the treasure and struck out. Unluckily for him, the wife's daughter, a strapping girl of 20, observed the theft and departure. Giving chase she oTertook her papa, threw him down, tied him to a tree, and corrected him with a hjicfeory stick. Presently the bride appeared, akd joined her daughter in the castigation. \The.l: piteous cries of the unhappy groom soon reached the ears of the police, who hurried to the spot. Tied to the roots of a ■ tree was the husband of only a few hours' creation; the step-daughter, stick in hand, > and rapidly repeating the licks; % bride was punching him in the^ ribs with'htr fist, calling him thief, robber, EuJUux, using cuss-words, &c. The case was compromised by thereturn of the money, but the honeymoon was dyer. The Fbench Conventiou-;—!? one glances back a quarter of a century to the glorious days of the Convention, one finds that riots and forcible ejections were so much the orJer of the day that tnie- bffi- \ cial reports of the sittings almost inrcriably end with the, formula, "Ici 1» vacarme devient assourdissant et les representants dv peuple se separent en de* sordre.'' One of these convention sittings was enlivened by an incident of wlu*ch it is not too much to say that it would excite a " prolonged sensation" in the year 1874. The Citizen Drouet de Fill* hating boasted in the " Tribune" a,fo mt his poverty and tho austerity of his private life, Merlin de Thionville moved that the citizen's housekeeper be summoned to the bar of the House to answer whether these allegations were true. Amid roars of laughter the motion was carried, and the discomfited Drouet, seeing that it was seriously proposed to send for the lady— > the sting of the motion lay in the fact that she was a young lady—fled discomfited.-* Pall Mall Gazette.

Social Tact. —When one is in the act of tipping his hat to a lady whom he supposes is an acquaintance! it requiref some tact to make believe he is only scratching his head as he discovers the lady is a stranger.—Milwaukee Sentinel. Beecher and Tiiton.—A Paris Jour* nal, speaking of the great scandal says, " Monsieur Beecher" was an actor before he turned a clergyman, and that "Monsieur Tilton" is an English lawyer who had gained a wide reputation in Boston as a prosecutor of criminal suits. '

Sandy Tulloch lived, with his aiiter and her husband on an upland farm a good many miles from the country town, Sandy was not exactly what is called " half-witted,'' but his ideas were a little hazy sometimes. When the minister came to baptize one of his little nieces, a " neebor wife" sent Sandy for two buckets of water, just to keep him out of the way. But Sandy, fully alive to the importance of the occassion, was back in "no time," with tba buckets running and the perspiration streaming down his honest face ; before he had hardly recovered his breath, however, the "neebor," who took the buckets and quickly emptied their contents, was back again with them. This operation was performed several times with a great success, and the baptismal ceremony was got through without interruption ; but Sandy was often after, wards heard to declare, when any one spoke of a baptism, "Ods, JIT^T them that has the water to carry!"

Sweeting one's coffee is generally the first stirring event of the day.