The Warwickshire Herald. — 1892-11-03 (Birmingham, West Midlands, England)

MORE MALAPROPISMS.  Quite a cluster of Malapropisms have reached the Daily Nees from various correspondents. "W." says: Speaking to an old =ervant the other day of a tinting parson parson who lief, the care of his parish :114.t1y to his curates, site sail "Yes, mi:., but you see lie's what they call at •Inciiitibrance! ' 'Auditor" writes: A town councillor, who is now Mayor of a southern town. WAS aiblressing tlet council lately, when a member interrupted him. Ile complatawl of tlw "impunity " of his fellow-111.4,tbi1.r. A leielo ripvling round the table, the her addled with emphasis—"l do call it aut impunity for a inenilwr to interrupt me in this way." Atiodier correspondent, says that at a recent Provincial Board meeting in his locality after a number had advocated the circuit-is veto in of certain districts of the borough, a coligue rose ane convulsed the meeting with laiigi,er by saying: "Gentlemen, I quite agree with my friend that the districts mentioned ought to be circumcised." " W.J." says he saw the other day, in a town in Surrey, posters announcing the sale of the contents of a mansion. On the bill was a special line, "An important Etymological collection in a handsome glass case." The following comes from a County Court: A woman in the defendant's lox spoke of her late husband as the "diseased." At another time in the same court a defendant refused to pay because the plaintiff had written "a effigy- on her." Another correspondent writes: "The tendency of illiterate persons to substitute a well-known word for one they have heard lass frequently seems irresistible. Years ago, I knew an old fellow who would call lucifer matches 'useful matches 'e and a servant of ours, being asked what her r:popie intended to do in a contingency,thr woof« of which I forget, said that a certain woman and her nice or had lawn together all the afternoon of the day before ‘cockroaching ' (concocting) something. titS RAMP servant once referred to a band wiiich used to perform at Kites at Chelsea, and which was called the l'atent Plumbago Brass Band, as the "Lumbago Howl.'"  An interesting story is r„saing the rounds about Mr. Ye, the Conan thatgt".. .l'AtTair,s at Wasbin,s• ton, and Mrs. Ye. Soots after their srrival America, Mr. Ye had to attest.: i recsption. and before starting strictly euis.ined ivn his wife that she must remain at the Legation. Mrs. Ye did not relish being left behind. although this would have been the prop.rr thing in tl,r nativ,. land, and afte! hr husband's departure she, with two of the secretaries' wives, effected her departure from the Legation by way of the isitchen window alt,i surprises! Mr. Ye and his suite by appearing at the reception with the :nest unruffled letne,titour. Mr Ye todk the juke 50t.0-11.“u1e....4, atel from ti,a, time has been' aecompanied by his wife at all public gatherings.—Pall Gazette.  Mrs. Little, who, with her husband and Ave childrm, was a passenger by the Doric, which left Plymouth on Saturday for New Zealand, committed suicide on the passage from London by jumping overboard. She had suffered much from sea-sickness.  Serious flooding of the land has occurred in Esrex, owing to the heavy rains. In the valleys at the Chelmer, Comae, and illackwater many hundreds of acres are und(r water. Farm work is at a standstill, and much of the seed corn already sown has been washed away.