The Cannock Chase Examiner. — 1875-08-14 (Cannock, Staffordshire, England)

TUC ROCK-GOAT. Far away up on the mountains of the renees and the Alps there are to be found light-footed anlnuds of the goat bind : the ibex, or rock •goal, which somewhat resembles our English goat, only its horns are long :ind thick and strong, its hair is long, with a black line down the back ---it will mount a rock, that looks like a high wall, at a bound ; and the I Chamois pretty, frisking creatures, bounding about peaks and crannies, where GIOTO does not seem to be footing for a cat, but where the hardy hunter follows fearlessly. The bold mountaineer (sure-footerl and sureeyed), for he must bear to look down tremendous heights without turning giddy and sick), can alone follow these pretty wild creatures. Two or three of these hunters iITSOCiaO for a chaos. Armed with titles, and provided with a small bag of food, they start prepared for any hardship. Up the cold 11101111taill sides they clamber, and when darkness comes on, they build a little turf but, in which they crouch for the night, Sometimes the morning fonds them blocked in their refuge by great piles if fresh fallen snow, Ind of which they have to die their way. At other times darkness steals on them wroile in pursuit of their prey, and they inset pass whole nights standing huddled together to prevent each other from, falling, into souse fearful precipice. Then, at early dawn, they must seek the high regions, where the ibex, elmmois, or antelope skip from crag to crag, tor it once they scent the hunters, then is small chance of catching them. Sometimes they will turn on the pursuer, and tumble him down the precipices. Up allow the highest :Lbyss perch hungry vultures, ready to pounce on tit, goats, white hares, or marmots of the mountain.- - Fem.. "Dille Fold-A."  A Milwaukee 111411 hid in a public doorway, and jumped out and kissed his wife. She didn't whoop and yell, as he expectod, but exclaimed, " Don't be so bold, mister • folks about hero know me."  Don't speak all at once, girls. Ilia Serene Highwss Plit lee nerman Eugene Adolph Bernhard Frans Ferdinand August Yell Saynevittenstein liolicustein is looking for a wife.—American paper.  A scientific writer says that scorpions commit suicide. We are glad to hear it. If other insects would only get into the habit of doing so, how much more would people think of them :—American paper.  Lis QUICKEST Wm—The other day an excited inlividual accosted a street garish with the question, 'May, boy, whibb is the quickest way for me to get to the railway station' 'Bun,' was the response.  A lady, whose family was very much in the habit of making conundrums, was one evening asked by her husband, in an excited tone, " Why are all these doors left pen ?" " I give it up !" instantly replied the lady.  The newspapers state that a banker in Paris has abisiinaleil, leaving a large Melt behind. Mrs. Partingten thinks that it was very good or the poor man to !MVO it, when he might have got of: elaar with everything,.  N11:11T Pitoroentsrus.—They hare got so they take photographs in the night. A\\hiitelii.pl artial has lately Rucceeded. lie took a hundred ana fifty front a brother artist, and then he was taken—to the station  A runaway thief haying applied to a blacksmith for work, the latter showed him seine handcuffs, and asked Iliad Ito understood such kind of work. " Why, yes, or, said the other, fancy rye had hand in 'Ol5  AND Ilurren.—A matter-of-fact philosopher Asserts that " love is to domestic lire what butter IS II) bread --it possesses little nourishment, in itself, but rs to substantials a grand relish, without which they would be harder to swallow."  A couple of old topers got into a quarrel, and for sime time hurled a great deal of unrefined language at ieh other, when OW of them, determining to extinz,ish the other, exclaimed, "Go---I havo no more to o : I scorn you as Ido a glass of water !" A gentleman, while making a speech, inadvertently ,teplled forward and off the platform. In response to the peals of ImOiter that greeted his unlucky fail!, or ,limaed that any speaker had a right " to, canoe down to the level of his audience.-----I,at eica4 pap,. A three-year-old boy asked his mother to let hint It his building bricks to play with ; but she told her In-ling that it was Sunday, and therefore not proper for hint to hove them. " But. 11131111113," said the hopeful, '` I'll build a church." lie got, the bricks. Ihvt,los.—Two Scotch students, desiring to make  •Ives comfortable, had a stove put up in. their I.lconber; one bought this stove, and the other patd rl., mason to have a hole cut in the chimney. They by ... • up housekeeping the other day, and divided thesis. ~ Das had the stove. and the other the huts.  The French National Assembly has voted the grants to the various opera houses and theatres at the same amounts as before—that is, to the Grand Opera, £32,000; the Opera Contiquo, ..£5000; the Theatre Lyrique, .£41.100, besides the arrears of £4OOO not paid last year, owing to the failure of the director; the Theatre Francais, ; and the Odeon, £2400. Tho question of reducing the tax of ¶1 per cent, on the gross receipts of all theatres for the poor has been postponed until the next Budget.  On Monday three Durham pitmen were sentenced to six months hard labour for an assault on a policeofficer near Consett. The prisoners and a number of companions not in custody attacked a public-house, and when the officer interfered he was pelted with stones. The landlord attempted to frighten away the men by exploding caps on the nipple of a gun, but as they continued to throw stones at the aim; he charged the weapon and fired at them, the charge taking effect in the thigh of one man. The ringleaders are still at large. DRAM Or