Miscellaneous And News Items

'Tis liltle troublö to brew baer but beer brews much tioubie. Jones calis crinolioea the large circle of hls femalo frieiidi. Thf trout is waid lo be :i keen sighted fish ; the fact is he wear specs. Happiness grows at our own firesides, and tis not to be picked in strangers' gardens. "Ciin yrni teil me how to find the sheriti's office " ' Tw, every time you earn fivo dollars tapend ten. "See her, miather," said an Trisli lad oí sevpn Klimmers, who waa treed by a dog, "if yon don't take tbat dog aw;ty, 111 ent lip uil your applo-." G'-v. Andrew, (if Mass., has appointod the 17th cf April to be observed as a day of lasting and prayer in Massachusetts. A Dutohman, beino; called upon to give o toast, said : Here ish to de héroes whatfit, pled, and died at the Battle of Buil Run- of whioh I am oue." Fort Dnlaware at the present time is oocupiedby 5,000 Confedérate soldiers, and 335 officers, all of whom are prisonrs of war. Among the officers are Jeff. Thomdson and Basil Duke. A Boston paper suggests the organizntiou of "a grand Loyal Ladiea' League cornposed of women who are willing to pledgetboinselve8 to mantaiD, vvhile the war lasts, a decent eoonomy in their attire." Tha lntelligencer, oí New York, contain8 a lengthy article on the Germán population of New York city, from which we learn that there are 15,000, of whom 41,000 are Jews ; 63,000 are Protestants, and 46 Roman Catholics. The Boston Traveller, speakiag of the "hazing" of Freshmen in Harvard College, very justly observes that the blackguard practical jokes played upon students "can be found in private Bchoolfi and other assemblages of young men, but they are nowhere found in aesemblies of gentlemen." An old toper bet that he could when blindfolded teil each of several kinds oí liquors. When brandy, whisky, gin and otber drinks were presented to him, he pronounced eorrectly what tbey were. At length a glass oí pure water wag given him; be tüsted it, paused, tasted it again and again, considered, and shook his head. At last said he, - Gentlemen I give it up. I am not used to that kind oí liqnor."