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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 556, 18 September 1869, Page 2

Humax Nature.—They tell a good story of two bachelors who lived a sort of cat aud dog life, to their neighbours' discomfort, for a good many years, but who had been at a camp meeting, were slightly converted, and both of them concluded to reform. 'Brother Tom,' says one when they arrived at their home, ' let us sit down now and I'll tell you what we'll do, You will tell me of all my faults, and I*ll tell you of all yours, so we'll know how to get mending 'em., ' Good !' says brother Tom. '"Well, you begin.' ' No, you begin, brother Joe.' « Well, in the first place, you know, brother Tom, you will lie !' Crack goes brother Tom's double fist between brother Joe's 'blinkers,' aud a considerable scrimmage ensued, until, in the course of about ten minutes, neither bein» able to come to time, reformation was postponed sine die. An American paper says that the grasshoppers recently ate up half an acre of tobacco for a "man down south, and when the owner went up to look at it, the darned things sat on the fence and squirted tobacco juice at him.