MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

West Coast Times, Issue 1494, 12 July 1870, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

Let me give yon a list of ten follies. They are those: — To think that the more a man eats the fatter and stronger he will become. To believe that the more hours children study at school the faster they learn. To conclude that if exercise is good for the health, ths more violent and exhausting it is the more good is done. To imagine that every hour takm from sleep is an hour gained. To a<*t on the presumption that the smallest room in the house is large enough to sleep in. To argue that whatever remedy causes one to ieel immediately better is good for the system, without regard to ulterior effects. To commit an act which is felt in itself to be prejudicial, hop'ng that, somehow or other; it may be done in y-mr case with impunity, to advise another to take :i remedy which you have tried yourself, without making special inquiry as to whether ail the coudit.ons are alike. To eat a hasty supper for the pleasure experienced during the brief time it is passing down the throat, at the expense of a whole night of disturbed sleep, and a weary waking in the morning. — The Moralist.

The Seven Wonders of Old Times. — Of the seven antique wonders of the world one only is still extant. The Pharos of Alexandria no longer sheds its light over the watere of the Mediterranean; Apollo Colossus has long since gone to the melting-pot ; the crys-elephantine Olympian Zeuß, of Phidias has been turned into amulets and squared into dice ; jackals labor the ground where once stood the terraced gardens of Babylon— the paradise of Nebuchadnezzar. The Temple of the Ephesian Artemis is sunk for ever in the marshes of the Cayster ; the dethroned monarch Mausolus has taken refuge in England, :ind from his pedestal in the British Museum placidly looks down upon the remains of his celebrated sepulchre — a monument of departed greatness But the i'yramid of Cheops still stands erect on the western bank of the Nile. Tue storms of forty or more centuries have but chafed its surface ; and though the palaces of Cairo have been partly built out of the stones of its revetement, yet it remains apparently uninjured, and is likely to remain to tie tnd of time. Climate, no doub-, has had much to do with its wonderful Mate of preservation. Had it been built in a country with cold and damp atmosphere, the moisture would have penetrated between the joints, and the frosts and thaws uplifted and riven its enormous courses of stone, as iv northern climes they rive the granite mountains ; but in Egypt, where liteially there is no rain, no damp, no frost, lime has not these slaves to help him in bis work of destruction. — Builder.

Astory is told of a young arti.>t who was greatly attracted by the beauty of a lady who sat at a window in the house opposite his studio. He sent glances of admiratiou up to her window whenever he passed into or out of his room. At length one day, seeing her in the street, his artistic tastes iau away with bis good judgment,

and reaching her, panting with the haste he had made, gasped out, " Oh, Miss, your lovely hlnmle hair, I am dying to pnint it ! " The lady, with a quick movement, put her hand to her head, and then holdin? out her hair at arm's length, exclaimed, " Take it, there it is ? Rend it back when you have done with it. and ston staring at my window. Mv husband is dreadfully jealous, and will thrssh you for your impudence." The en stfallen artist ha* not brcn < n the chase for '* lovely b'ondo hair" since.

Pugilism on the Ftagf.— Ths Old Bowery Theatre, although it has stood for twenty-six yenrs, was re\er so densely packed with human beings as it was last evening. The entertainment was the play of " Tom and Jerry " ; the especial " a'tists " were the famed pugilists John C. Heenan and James Mac?, and the part each was to play wns to make batteringrams of his arms and a target of his head Long before the hour at which the curta'n was to be lifted, the theatre to filled "beyond the pos-ihiliiy of further admissions and upwards of 1000 disappointed roughs crowded the Bowery and made its side walk on both sides imnassable. About eight o'clock, the curtain was rolled up, and the men appeared, shook hands, and assumed the attitude of professional boxers. The crowd's appreciation of this part, of the performance was expressed in deafening cheers. First round — Ilcenan was playful, "while Mace looked determined. It was not long before Ileenan hit out, catching Mace on the breast ; the latter was evidently not prepared for a blow, so easily was it. done. Then commenced seme sharp hitting, decidedly in favor of Heenan, who was springing about mid hitting a* carelessly ns though Mace was but a shadow. On the second round Mace came up wickedly, planted a blow with ease on Ileenan's face, :md alnvi-t carried him oil his legs. The third and concluding round was a short one. So earnest y did Mace go at it that Ileenan was comielled to " punch" h : m off several times ; but he was no sooner off than on again,, and to sucli close quarter* did he bring matters that he lot Heenan's head in " chancery," an indiscreti< n th r >t resulted in his receiving Fome sharp ''fibbing." At this juncure the exited crowd were yelling frantically, and Heenan judiciously again shook bands with iis antagonist. The exhibition lasted not nore than ten minutes, but it will afford ,he roughs a top ; c for discussion for the lext ten week". Notwithstanding Heenan's superior form, his great height, and length )f reach, Mace put in full twenty more slows than he received. — New York Tribime, February 12.