MISCELLANEOUS.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVI, Issue 1693, 21 January 1862, Page 5

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Yankhb Officer. — I am captia of the Baldinsville Company. I riz gradoally bat majestically from drummers secretary .to my present pesition.% Bat I found the ranks wasn't full by no means and commenced for to reeroot. Havia"^ notist a gineral desire on the part of the young men who are into the crisis to wear eppylet, I detarmined to have mine composed excloosively of omssers, every* body to rank as brigadeer-ginfal. ■: The folleringwas among the varis questions which I put to recroots:~ D>q jpit know a masked battery from a hunitjjQf^ gingerbread ? Do you know a eppylet, ~from a i peice of ohalk ? If I trust yptt-t with a real gun, how many of your own company do you speck you can manage to kill during the war f Have you ever heard of Ginral Price, of Missouri, and caii you. avoid simler accidents in case of battle ? Hay you ever had the measles, and; if,so how many ? How air. -you- now : Show , : me your tongue, &c, &6,' Some of^h©; : questions were saronsstical.— -America* % Paper. ' ■ One in every forty-six of the population of England capable of bearing arms has volunteered/ while in Scotland the propor- £• tion is as high as one in twenty-six." tWP^ Some men's heads are like the "wprld^S before God said unto iti / '*f'^Jbe e t: ! th'ere ! r%|<SS;'T light. " These dark lanterns :VmayVh|ni» i ff| to themselves, and understand their||^^^ conceits, but nobody else daii^ have/|ig|p||£ from them. . . \. ; -Some affebt thirdajil^ ness, that ,thejr niajr found; whereas ope is not bound tobelievo that all^he-waf^PfeepShagi^^^P If a man be 'gracious -to xajtran'ger^^ij^J shows; that .he, i 3 a"?oitizen^ldijfi|^^^^B and that his heart is..no, ; jslan^^t|pp^|!^H other lands, but a part of 'thp'CJonlin^^B , that joins ; them. v , ( ; V^ ; | |^^^^g