The Sun.
London, England, 1849-02-01 00:00:00

ailment, " what may be the matter wi' she, Master
David?" •" Well," said David in his usual dry told
quiet way, " she hey a bad breaking out about her
mouth every now and then, that trouble %i her, and me
varry sore, I 'sure ye, Master Doctor." " Well," said
the latter, " I could make a grand cure of her, I'll
warrant—l bev a salve 'at I makes tra the juice

of the juniper tn*, and by biilng up a vast
different kinds o' things,'at quite cures that in no
time!" "'Deed," said Davie, an' what might your
charge be, now. for a box o' that 'intment, 'at would
quite cure her?" Oh, said the herbalist, " looking
anxiously up in David's face, " only a matter of a
shilling." " Well, that's dirt cheap," said David; " if you
cures her, I'll give you eighteenpence, there now 1" With
this offer the doctor set off home to prepare his nostrum,
and straightway hied the very next day to David's house,
box in hand. There he found Mrs. Price, and went at
once to business. " Well, Mrs. Price, your master tell
me that you hey betimes a bad breaking out about the
mouth,: and I've brought a box o' fine intment 'at will
quite cure ye !" With this announcement, Mrs. Price
tiring up—at once seeing her husband's jest—raising toe
brush with which she was sweeping the floor, and pum
welled the doctor to her heart's content, even following
to beat him a field from her house—he screaming out
all the while, " Oh, Missus Price, be you gone mad?"
From that day, however, Mrs. Price has been wholly
cured or her scolding habits. David has only to look up
in her face and say, " I'll get a box 't that 'intment,"
and there's an end of the matter. David honourably
paid the doctor his is. 6d. and treated hint to make him
forget his pummelling. The whole of these circum-
stances are strictly true.—Divham Chronicle.
ECCENTRICITIES OF TRANSLATION.—The Overland
China Mail, of Hong-Kong, gives a curious instance of
the variation in official orders which may occur through
translation. The following order was issued by Sir
John Davis:—" No person except the ha:bour master
can board a junk or vessel without the consent of the
master, unless he is armed with a warrant and accom
panied by a constable." Upon examination of the
Chinese official translation, the passage was found to
have been thus rendered:—" The harbour-master, and
persons carrying warrants, and policemen, have power to
board vessels: if there be men, and the captain does not
want them to enter the vessel, then be may be able to
obstruct and stop them." In commenting on this far-
rago the editor of the China Mail quotes some more
amusing parallels from a French translation of Guy
Manneriny which he had met with. " Sir Walter Scott
speaks of Dominie Sampson as a' stickit stibbler'; that
is, a minister who has stuck in his career, or in his dis-
course. A French translator renders this un niinistre
assassins'—a minister stuck with a vengeance. Again,
in the same novel, Dandie Dinmont is told that it has
just chappit aucht on the Tron,' that is, the Tron Church
bell has just struck eight. This is rendered in French,
'II est huit heures, et le Roi est sur son tr(lne'—which,
being translated into English, means,' It is eight o'clock,
and the King is on his throne;' the writer, probably,
being led away by a confused notion that the hour had
something to do with Paulus Pleydell being at that time
engaged in performing the part of King in high jinks."
THE WHITE RABBIT AT DARTMOUTH.—Dart-
mouth, like every other town, has had its full share of
ghosts, ghost stories, and ghost believers, but for a period
of time more than covering the last half century it has
been mysteriously visited by some unearthly being, in
an earthly shape of a white rabbit; many of the
oldest inhabitants can bear testimony to the fact, that
the white rabbit's ghost used regularly, as soon as dark-
ness set in of a night, to take its march from the church-
yard down through one or two of the principal streets
of the town, gambolling heedlessly along, to the terror
of most persons who saw it. Some few bolder than
the rest have been known to attempt to capture the
intruder; shots have been fired at it, men have given
chase, and on more than one occasion the pursuer
has securely placed his hat over the prize, but on
lifting which the vanished rabbit has made it evident
that it was not ordinary flesh and blood. Hundreds of
persons used to witness the parol of this delicate-looking
ghost, but the honour of capturing it during the last
week has fallen on our indefatigable head constable
Hearn. Hearn's story is, that on opening and entering
the council-chamber on Tuesday morning, he heard very
strange noises proceeding from some part of the build-
ing; however, there being a good supply of constables'
staves close at hand, he armed himself, and, after a long
search, discovered and captured, without much resist-
ance, a very large white rabbit. Nearly all the mem-
bers of the town council visited and saw this animal in
the Guildhall the same morning of its capture, and from
its singular ancient look, coupled with its lean condition,
it was pronounced to be the white rabbit of Dartmouth.
The general opinion is, that it must have purposely gone
to the Guildhall, with the intention of delivering itself
up, to satisfy the ends of justice.—Devonshire Chronicle.
TEETOTALISM EXTRAORDINARY.-011 Friday af-
ternoon two well-dressed men, accompanied by a female
of respectable appearance, 'quarrelled at the foot of
Jamaica-street. As they were all considerably under
the influence of liquor, the dispute soon assumed a seri-
oas appearance, and both parties threw off their upper
coats for the purpose of fighting. Several blows were
exchanged before the police arrived at the scene of
action. The men were, of course, required to desist
and leave the place, but this they absolutely refused to
do, and behaved otherwise in such an outrageous man-
ner, that additional assistance had to be obtained before
the parties could be secured. One of the men, named
Brown, made such a vigorous resistance, that two of the
constables were obliged to lift him upon their shoulders,
and in this manner carry him off to the Clyde Police-
office. When searched, preparatory to being locked up,
there was found, suspended round his neck with a silver
chain, a very handsome gold-mounted teetotal medal, on
which was inscribed the usual pledge.—North British

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