MISCELLANEOUS.

Inangahua Times, Volume VII, Issue 1191, 3 November 1882, Page 2

MISCELLANEOUS.

Sarah Gorham is, or rather was, an Indianopolis lady who ate 100 grains of opium daily for a long time before she died. The applejack that destroyth the Jerseyman was as milk and water to Sarah, and she looked upon the cactus whiskey of Pueblo as though it had be«n a very little thing. " what is a jug of rum among one V said Sarah. A practical Party. — Tourist fisherman No. 1: Any fish about here, my man 1 Scot : Nae ! yell get nae fish aboot here. Tourist fisherman No. 2 : But this must be tho place a little fat man in a kilt directed us to as a good swim. Scot: Eh! that's

Andy Macintosh, an' he's a liar. A nion that can tell a deeleeberet leo wi'oot its in the way o' gain, is amaist immoral character.

A California astronomor claimed to have discovered seven comets in a bunch

the other evening, but he was just from the States and had not yet became accustomed to the coast brand of whisky. " J.W." is advised that the extent to which the dissolution of partnership should be advertised, and the newspapers in which advertisements should be inserted, depend very much upon the nature and magnitude of the business. Jit is indispensable that notice should be inserted in the London Gazette, and sent by post or delivered to every past and present creditor of the firm ; and it is desirable to advertise the dissolution in the local papers as extensively as may be reasonably practicable. In these days of keen competition, advertising is a great aid to success in business. — Notes and Queries. The Times has been very justly complimented upon the unsensational announcements of its telegraphic intelligence. Instead of " Tremendous Victory ; Total Defeat of the Enemy ;" it simply head its announcement, " Kgypt.' I should imagine this was very distasteful to Sir Garnet Wolsely. His last .despatch contains the most extravagant piece of bunkum I ever read in an official document, and is enough to make the Great Duke of Wellington " turn in his grave." " I could see trains arrive (full of reinforcements for the «nemy) ; still, I did not think it would be in consonance with the traditions of the Queen's army that we should retire before any number of Egyptian troops." Mrs Langtry refused a tempting offer, said to be £100 for each performance, foi a visit to Australia and New Zealand, after her American tour..