MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 24 November 1880, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

What .people want is confidence, If. doesn't look well lura deacon to lake an umbrella to church, and carry it atohh pew, and hong to it. \Vba t

'ie should do is fo leave Hie timbrel U mi tin the vestibule ,with (hit supreme confidence that a mm- h;ts when he bets on four aces. To see the prominent men o c a church carry their umbrellas into tbeir pews mak^s the ordinary einner fell as though be vas suspected. A sculptor's wife bad her husband arrested for assault and battery, because, as she testified, on the occasion of her going to his studio to mfortn him that a woman 'across ths street had eloped, he struck her in the face with a huge raas3 of mv I. The sculptor expla'ned th.it; the occisiaa referred to was tha first lirae tor years thai he tad seen a pleasant 'look on his wife's farce and therefore he hastened to take a cast of her features, in order to catch the expression to nse on a bust he intended to mode!. The case was ds missed. An English correspondent wr'tes : — • I bear Luke, the j »ekey — the third or fourth best in Eugland— intend* paying you a visi^ or rather settling :n Australia; he is a grand fiiisher, but o'ten rides yery fouilr. H* will not !»e allowed to rive in Eagland this year again, hence. I suppose, Im idea of de« parting. It will be remembered that last year the Jockey Club raide n rule to license j lukey^ aad alloy none to ride without one. Luke* has been token from him for "having struck Greaves with his whip after the race for the Pie! Handicap, at Huntingdon In tfce great wrestling tournament at Carlisle, England, for the clrimpion* ship of Groat Britain. J.iha 'Steadman agnin won the championship. Ona hun ired and eighry competed for the prizes. Steadoian ha* now won the championship seven limes.