, 1860-10-18
MISCELLANEOUS.

Marshal Valiant has sent to the French Acad"
eny au account Of IN inject which anuses It,
self By boring holes IN lsaden balls.
Jeremy Taylor say that "a good wife should
be looking glass t. her hushand." But re
think she might and should make him see IN
her something better than himself
When Florence Nightingale arrived at Bou"
logne, few weeks since, her baggage was
transported, without fee or reward, to the hotel
By the female porters who throng the ~harVes
Of that p ace. They were glad to honor the
tournament of their sex"
1t beng h'nted 10 q bnrrister, Who Was
wearing the court with long dull argument.
that be ought 10 briog it 10 a close, be angri!y
replied, II will speak as lang as l please! !"
You have spoken longer than you please al'
ready" aa'd his antagonist"
old Lord Elphiustone was saleep ut church
while the minister, Tery prosy preacher, was
and cried, "Waukin, ny Lord Alphiustone."
4 grunt, and then," I'm no sieepin', min
iis1er." But ye are sieepin'. wager ~
dlnna ken what l said last" "fe SAID
4waukin, my Lord Alphipstone.' "Aye, aye,
but wager ye dinna ken what said last afore
that" IL wager 20 dinna ken yonrse]."
God did not make ha1ps, nor pirouettes
ncr cr.yon drawing, nor the namea OF all tho
g-eat cities in Africa, Dor conchology, nor the
tOSt&<s A"4t1s 1AA q PAVPtA ~VA1AA'~AA " .1"A
tenauce. aud prudery, and twenty other things
Of tue sort. TLev must all be taught, then, or
how il poor girl to knox any thing about
1hems But, heAlt!, strength, the heat. the
soul, With their fairest inmates. modesty, cheer-
fulness, truth, putty, fond ahtction--all these
things he did make; and 50 they may sately be
left 10 nhture.
In Paris, when dealers in pre- cious stones pur.
chase rubts they behead q liye pigeon, 20 that
the blood Of the bird shall tall GU a aheet OF
white paper, aIongelde the gem, Is test Of its
color, The blood OF the pi1eo2 being a standard
Of color and transparency.
"A letter from Lima says, tailor who said
in Court that ne thought te coul1 re ogn'z. the
assassin oil Gen. Cas:ro was maylaid in tho
street ut night by tour u.ens who told tim,
ave will not xii you, but We shall make
you hurm:eks." They ihen rubbed his eyes
with yltrIol, which completely blinded him. The
unhBppy man has -eeslved pension from the
PRESIDENT.
AT last accounts, 31r. Karey, the horse
tamer, had Just returLei 10 London, after visit
to The Shetland Islands. Whilst thers he pur-
chased five OF the smallest ponies in the world.
One he has Kiven 10 d gentleman famed tor his
undertaking kindness and courtesy 70 travellers
from America; the other four will be lniated ii
the tsyhtem,' and taught to play fantastic
tricks. He carried in his arms little fellow,
ssven and half hands in height, whose future
companion will be Newfoundland dog, about
an inch taller than" Sheitie" himself.
The Connectic t Court Of Errors has just
discharged murderer Of whose guilt there was
no doubt, simply because there was no law to
pun'sh him. The prisoner, Michael Daley Of
pequouuock, killed James oSeil on Sunday,
May i, By cutting his head open with sn ax.
The jury convicted Daley Of mapsleushte-,
whereupon the counsel Tor defense filed a mo-
lion in arrest Of jud .ment cn the ground that
the law punislliug manelaughter, which was in
force when this offence was committed, was re-
pealed By the last Legislature, and that the stat
act was done, 30 that no jud kment could be rem
dertd against the prisoner under the authority
OF ether ststute. This point was fully tus'
tained By the Court OF Errors after full hearing.