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New Zealand Tablet, Volume X, Issue 498, 27 October 1882, Page 25

Scarcely a policeman was to be seen anywhere in the leading streets on Tuesday last ; the city wax given over, as the West-British organs would put it, to the mercies of a monster Irish mob ; and yet the most marvellous peace, good order, and good humour prevailed throughout the entire day ! The coincidence will probably appear strange to many of our foreign visitors, who have been accustomed to hear from our rulers and their supporters in the Press that the Irish cannot be trusted to be their own policemen, and must always be kept down by the strong hand of military power ; but, of course, it will be nothing strange to Irishmen themselves. Talking of the behaviour of the people crowded together in the streets on Tuesday, we may further note that little or no drunkenness was to be observed even late at night,— Nation Aug. 19th. Miss Wanda Brown, residing at a fashionable boarding-house in Thirty-Niaih-street, New York City, recently gave her landlady, Mrs, Becdle, in cba i ge for assault and battery. Beinj? requested by the sitting magistrate to state the particulars of the assault, she deposed that upon three several occasions Mrs. B-ertle had put a huge bullfrog into her bed. "Is that so ?" inquired hig Honor of the prisoner. " Well Judge, I admit the frogs,'' replied Mrs. Beedle ; " but what is one who is poor, though honest, to do with a boarder who will neither pay nor quit l This is how it was. I had lost enough money by her,, and wasn't goiLg to waste auy more on getting her put out of the house by the strong arm of the law. But my husband supplies coldblooded aniinab to the medical students for their experiments, and so it struck me one day, looking over his stock, that a likely way to persuade Miss Brown to pay up. or better still, to get rid of her, would be to administer a frog or two in her bed." " Did your expedient succeed ?" asked .the magistrate, with a smile. "You bet," answered Mrs. Beedle. " Did she pay up then ?" " Not much, judge ; but, after the third frog, she vamoosed the rauche." " That was a good notion of yours, Mrs. Beeiile," observed his Honor, vainly striving to keep his countenance, " but duty compels me to fine you three dollars",