Glasgow Courier. — 1846-10-01 (Glasgow, Strathclyde, Scotland)

MISCELLANEOUS.  - - - A planter in St. Domingo was one day disposing of a horse to a neighbour, and being questioned by the purchaser regarding its qualities, among the rest, whether it kicked, the disposer replied that it was tame as imaginable. He had, however, hardly used the expression, when it flung up its heels to the danger of the by-standers. The purchaser being irritated at the duplicity of the other, reproached him with his intended deception, when, to substantiate the peaceful character of the animal, he called one of his slaves and demanded of him if he ever saw the horse kick before? "0, no me, massa," smartly answered the negro; "never saw him kick before; always saw him kick behind!" A Cure for the Cholera.—When a messenger once went to Lord Thurlow with Sir Richard Arden's respects and regrets that he was too ill to sit at the Rolla, the superior judge demanded, in a voice of thunder," What ails him?" "Please your Lordship, he is laid up with the English cholera." "Let him take an Act of Parliament," retorted the ungracious Chancellor, with one of those amiable wishes for his organs of vision' in which he was in the habit of indulging— let him try to swallow that; there is nothing so binding."— Green's Diary 0/a Lover of Literature. A man being capitally convicted at the Old Bailey, was, as usual, asked what he had to say why judgment of death should not be pronounced against him. "Say," replied he, "why I think the yoke has been carried far enough already, and the less that is said the better. If you please, sir, well drop the question." A Western editor, whose sheet is not very large, announces his deterniination for the future, to publish no common-place occurrences, but to confine his attention to remarkable murders, thrilling incidents, tremendous fires, daring robberies, and ingenious cases of swindling. "A duellist," says the Portland Aderrtiser, "is one who vindicates his pretensions to live like a gentleman, by dying like a fool." One of the neighbours of Mr. Wigan, whose wife recently gave birth to four children, congratulated him on having such a blessed, kind wife. "Oh, no," said Mr. Wigan, " she's a most over-bearing woman."—St. Louis Organ. " Blackberrying," according to a writer in the Charleston Courier, signifies the interment of a negro ! Another American journal says, that when a cat's tail is pinched bete evil a door and the post, she utters the vowels a ei o s, and finally dwelling on w till released, when the sound terminates on y short.  Always Dry.—"l say, mother," said a regular street loafer, the other night alter he had deposited something in a rickety old cupboard, and laid himself down upon the floor, "I want you to wake me when I get dry!" "How shall I know when you get dry?' " ()Must wake me any time; I'm always dry.' Poor Pay.—" What's the matter, uncle Jerry!" said Mr. —, as old Jeremiah K. was passing by, growling most ferociously. "Matter 7' said the old man, "Why, I've been luggiii water all the mornin' for Dr. C.'s wife to wash with; and what dye suppose I got for it? "About a ninepence." " Ninepence ! She told me the Doctor would pull a tooth for me sometime."