Show £4 THE PEEP 0’ DAT— A LITERARY MAGAZINE A GENTLEMAN wlio had the marvellous gift of shaping a great many : tilings out of orange peel was displaying his abilities at a MISCELLANEA — Melancholy Death of the Sea Serpent— The sea ser- pent that for so many years has deprived superstitious sailors of their wits has been captured in our harbor Laing’s ship-yar- d where lie was left high and dry whence ho was born in triumph to the city Ills length is twenty-thre- e feet liis head live inches in circumference his body at the largest part seven inches round Altogether hois a wonderful creature with a great gaping mouth widespread nostrils and orifices where the eye ought to be but arc not His suakesliip was first seen at an early hour basking on the rocks and his appearance as- may be imagined caused a commotion in the neighborhood After having viewed it for some time at a pate distance one of the spectators gathered courage enough to approach nearer and nearer until he at last discovered that the tail of the monster had made his last wig- gle and that he was as “ dead as herrings that arc red” The iuteh ligence of his finding was brought t) town and when half a hundred persons had visited the spot And pronounced the body that of the veritable sea serpent sojno inquisL tivc fellow out with his knife and cut a few inches from the monster's tail when it was discovered that the pauses of all the alarm and ex- citenient wgs a great piece of kelp ! j— as Jikc a serpent as like could be rJ?he illusiou ’was perfect and p early eyery one who saw the kelp was deceived by its appearance —I Vancouver Chronicle - i i ' V How to Destroy Ants— An agriculturist M Gamier has just announced an infallible method for getting rid of ants In a corner of his garden infected with legions of these insects lie placed four saucers containing sugar and water with the tenth of its weight of arsenic in the mixture A number of ants immediately invaded the saucers but were soon after seen staggering away as it were and some being even engaged in dragging their dead bodies away Jfrom that moment they disappeared from the garden and on the following day not a single one was to he seen How and whither this immense population emigrated in so short a time is a mystery which’ Af Gar- nier has been unable to clear up and is inclined to attribute it to gome mysterious jnsliqct— Acr A Little Dissertation on KISSING — The first oddity that comes in my way is a remark by some one that “ kisses are like creation because tliev are made of if nothing and they arc very good” —a very sensible remark and the next is the definition of a “ buss” Thus — buss to kiss rebuss to kiss again pluribus to kiss without regard to sex silly-bu- s to kiss the hand instead of the lip blunderbus to ldss the person omnibus to kiss all per sons in the room erebus to kiss dinnerparty before Theodore Hook and Mr Thomas Hill mid succeed- ed in counterfeiting a pig' to the admiration of the company Mr Hill tried the same feat and after" destroying and strewing the table r wltli the peel of at least a dozen f oranges gave It up with the ex-- 1 ' clamation “ Hang the pig! I can’t make one !” Nay fllill’J Hook’ ‘‘you’ have s' dona more instead of one pig you have A ’I made a Utter” in the dark Evidently the country girl wlio come to “town” had these definitions in her head A young gentleman was to escort lier a mile or two and not wishing to walk? remarked “Alary— let’s take a’ ‘bus'” But Alary blushing to the drew back and with wounded modesty replied “Oh George ? not here in the street ” ' ' Professor Adams of Amherst college was a great entomo- Some wicked students logist thought to quiz the old gentleman and with a great deal of care and labor succeeded in manufacturing a nondescript insect by taking the body of a beetle and glueing to it" the legs of a grasshopper the wings of a butterfly and the horns of a dragon fly With this new style of bug they proceeded to the study of the professor and told him that one of their number had found a strange animal winch they were unable to classify and requested him to aid them' in defining its position The Professor put on his spectacles and after examining the specimen carefully said “Well young gentlemen this is a curious hug I am inclined to think it is what naturalists call a humbug” SIR WiLLIAM ClIERE bad a very long nose and was playing at backgammon with old General ‘Brown During this time Sir William wlio wAs' a snuff-take-r was selcontinually using liis snuff-bo- x dom making the application of his handkerchief necessary to keep pace with his indulgence Observing him leaning continually over ithe table and being at the same time in a very bad humor with the game the general said “ Sir William blowr your nose” “Blow it yours elf ” said Sir Will i(im “it’s as near you as me” PLOWING the sea often causes harrowirrj sensations in 'the stom- aehandthe deeper the furrows the for the crop worse " "V eye-bro- A I r r An ODD sort stepped into a of a genius having mill was looking with apparent astonishment at tlie” movement of the machinery when1 the miller thinking to quiz him asked him if lie had’ heard :thef : news! “Not as I know on” said lie “ wliat is it ? “ Why” replied the miller “ they say ‘old Nick is dead” “By jingo” said Jona-- " ’ than “ is he the mill?” ? 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