THE NOSE BITER. - The man who tried to bite another man's nose off day before yesterday, was up before the Police Court yesterday, and ordered to appear for sentence to-day. The spiritless wretch, his victim, was present, and wanted to have the case dismissed and the prisoner set free, but Judge Shepheard of course refused to listen to such a proposition. The complainant evidently stood in deadly fear of the defendant, and he certainly had some excuse for the sentiment, because it was plain to be seen that he had suffered so frightfully from his experience of his qualities that the chances were all in favor of two thirds of his nose dropping off within the next week. The nose-biter deserves a strong lesson. Captain Douglas says he even tried to bite him, in the City Prison.
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"OH! THAT MINE ENEMY WOULD MAKE A SPEECH!" - J. W. Hussey, a very pleasant fellow and an accomplished arithmetician, has lately left his situation in the United States Branch Mint, where he was employed as computation clerk. On the occasion of separating from his fellow employees, they gave him a nice gold-headed cane, of California manufacture, as a proof of their esteem. The presentation speech was made by J. M. Eckfeldt, chief coiner, and from it we extract the following paragraph:
Though the wayfaring man of figures might well blunder and stumble among your calculations, he would not err who read "honor and integrity" on your forehead.
Reduced to plain English, this means, if it means anything, that Hussey was an honest, straightforward fellow enough, but he didn't know much about figures. Well might he exclaim, "Save me from my friends!" -- especially when those friends don't know how to put the English language together.
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