his beat, met
Dennis, whose hand he had last shaken on the 'Green Isle.' After
mutual inquiries and congratulations, says Dennis, 'What are you
doin' these days, Pat?' 'Oh, I'm consarned in this railroad
company. I go up the road fur the likes o' four miles ivry mornin'
to see is there ony rocks on the thrack.' 'And if there is?' 'Why,
I stops the trains, sure.' 'Faith,' said Dennis, 'what the divil's
the good o' that--_wouldn't the rocks stop 'em?_'

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The Hibernian idea of a meeting is, we should judge, peculiar, and not,
as a rule, amicable. 'What are ye doing here, Pat?' inquired one of the
Green Islanders who found a friend one morning in a lonely spot. 'Troth,
Dinnis, and it's waiting to mate a gintleman here I'm doing.' 'Waiting
for a frind is it?' replied Dennis; 'but where is yer shillaly thin?'
This was indeed a misapprehension, and of the kind which, as a
benevolent clergyman complained, who was actively engaged in home
mission work, was one of the most constant sources of his frequent
annoyances. 'Why,' he remarked, 'it was only the other morning that I
heard of a poor girl who was dying near the Five Points, and went to
administer to her such comfort as it might be in my power to render. I
met an impudent miss leaving the room, who, when I inquired for the
sufferer by name, replied, "It's no use; you're too late, old
fellow,--she's give me her pocket-book and all her things."'

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A friend has called our attention to the following extract from an
advertisement in a New York evening paper, and requests an
explanation:--

STRABISMUS, OR CROSS-EYE, IN ITS WORST STAGES, CURED IN ONE
MINUTE. READ!

NEWARK, August 14th, 1861.

Dear Doctor: I write to express my thanks for the great difference
you have made in my appearance by your operation on my eye. I have
had a _squint_, or _cross-eye_, since birth, and in less than one
minute, and with VERY LITTLE PAIN, you have made my eyes perfectly
straight and natural. Having consulted in Europe the greatest
_Aurists_, I, therefore, can testify that your system of restoring
the _hearing_ to the deaf is at once scientific, safe and sure;
and I confidently recommend all deaf to place themselves under
your care. W.T.

There's a nut to crack. Having had a cross-eye cured in one minute, Mr.
T. can _therefore_ test