Swansea and Glamorgan Herald, and South Wales Free Press. — 1861-05-08 (Swansea, West Glamorgan, Wales)

DISCOVERY. There have lately been found in Transylvania some coins, bearing the image and superscription of a Kossuth who was, in the time of Julius Caesar Qurestor (Minister of Finance) of Rome, and Prestor (Governor) of Hungary (then called Pannonia), thus illustrating one of those striking coincidences which history sometimes repeats. Our readeis are aware that Suetontus informs us that Julius Clesar was married to one of the daughters of the ancient house of Cossutia (Kesauth). A dentist advertises that he spares no pains" to render his operation satisfactory. Theodore Hook once dined with Hatchett at his delightful villa of Belle Vue, famous for its culinary completeness. "Ali, my dear fellow," said his host deprecatingly, "I am sorry to say that you'll net get to-day such a dinner as our friend Tom Moore gave us." "Certainly not," replied Hook "from a Hatchett one can expect nothing but a chop." A gentleman advertising for a wife says—" It would be well if the lady was posseased of a competency sufficient to secure herself against excessive grief, in case of accident occurring to her companion." HAPPY MA BRIED LI FE !—Wall, we jined our innocent hands, for we were but babes, although about to enter into the rights and wrongs of awful padlock, as the poet see, and then we jist sat together and talked with ma' about our future prospectus. She gave us good advice, how we were never to interdict one another, but to live like lambs, to shear each other's pleasures, and to bare each others oontlictions. " Ifif," she persisted, "you keeps my dev:ce, your lives will run away to the end of chronology, like a sweet stream, without any storms or cascades or other cruel inductions to ruffle its smooth and rkelliflous buzzim." She torked beautiful, for you see she was the wife of a parsing and could extremporise. tisk ODD Momeicrs. For a right use of odd moments, two things are requisite perseverance and system. "Perseverance plucks success;" drop by drop, water wears the stone. The habit may be acquired, but its right application is the fruit of eareful thought organised into system to suit our individual requirements. Neither will avail without the other; beth combined will effect results of incalculable value. Ncr is it well to lose sight of the fact that of our right use of all the talents with which we have been endowed, of all the opportunities which have fallen to our lot—and foremost among these of our time—a strict account will have , hereafter to be rendered.  GENERAL BELIEF IN Luca.—Why is it that sailors cling to port on a Friday, and loose their ships and weigh anchor on Sunday? Why did the ancients build a temple to Fortune, consult oracles, and venerate white stones rather than black stone,? Why did our grandmothers dislike the assemblage of nine rooks, turn back when they met a dog crossing their path, and show an antipathy to black cats? 'Why does a Fijian, to propitiate his ugly wooden god, offer him a bakolo, the dead body of his brother? Why was it improper to eat beans and the seeds of lupin? What magic makes the third time never like thereat? At the wicked little German-towns *here small Grand-dukes improve their revenues by licensing gaming tables, you will find old gamblers begging the youngest in the company, often an English boy who has come to look about him, to take fir them the firet throw of the dice. Why on Why is a fresh hand more likely to throw the three sixes than an old one ? Giacomo, in ' Venice or the Romango, a man of many murders hut pious, will cross himself nine times before taking to the road and inserting his stiletto in the first traveller he meets. A young English lady, or an old one, will examine her coffee-cup, throw spilt salt over her left shoulder, and shriek when knives are placed crossways on the dinner table. Paddy, in Connemara, will load his old gun with a blessed bullet before taking aim, from behind a hedge, at a bailiff. An eld nurse in the midland counties will throw a shoe after her daughter when she goes to service or to market. Why do all these do all such funny things ?—Family Herald. A PYRAMID or