From _The Scotsman_, Saturday, September 21, under the heading
"Angling," appears this item of news from "Annan," placed between
fishing notes from "Loch Earn" and "Dhu Loch":--
LOCH EARN.--Mr. WATSON, fishing on Lochearnhead Hotel water
yesterday, killed thirty-two nice trout.
ANNAN.--There were large supplies of all classes of stock. Best
beef made 7_s._ 6_d._ to 7_s._ 9_d._ per stone, and mutton 7_d._
to 7-1/2_d._ per lb. There was a crowded attendance of buyers
from England and the South of Scotland, and the demand was good
all through. Store cattle had a slow trade, and were bad to
sell. Quotations:--Fat bullocks up to £15 17_s._ 6_d._; do.
heifers up to £15 7_s._ 6_d._; do. cows up to £13 17_s._ 6_d._;
calving heifers £12 12_s._ 6_d._ Lambs, 16_s._ to 29_s._ 3_d._;
odd sheep, 33_s._ to 49_s._; rams, 43_s._ 6_d._; half-bred
hoggs, 41_s._ 6_d._ to 44_s._; cross do., 37_s._ to 41_s._
9_d._; Cheviots, 38_s._ 9_d._ to 41_s._ _9d._
DHU LOCH.--On September 18, Mr. KYNASTON had fourteen fish,
4-1/2 lb., heaviest 3/8 lb.; and on 19th, nine, 4 lb., heaviest
1 lb.
"Fat bullocks up to £15 17_s._ 6_d._" would try the strongest tackle.
Splendid specimen of "Net Profits."
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THE PUTNEY SPOOK.--Within the last week, so reported one of the
Day-by-Days in the _Daily Telegraph_, a ghost has been heard of at
Putney. Hundreds of _Hamlets_, _Marcelluses_, and _Barnardos_ (with
_Ophelias_, and other ladies) have gone out of their way nightly to see
the ghost. What should a riverside ghost be like? Obviously the
"main-sheet" from a sailing-boat is ready to hand, and for its head, at
any neighbouring boat-house, there is quite a choice of "sculls." If any
hair, there are the "row-locks." The ghost must not, in our opinion, be
expected anywhere with or against the stream, but in some "dead-water."
"Will the ghost walk to-night?" is now the Shakspearian inquiry; to
which the reply is, "Go to Putney!"
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ANGELICAL!--Herr ANGELI, the Austrian portrait-painter, whose name, as a
"noun of multitude," suggests "several ANGELOS rolled into one," is now
the QUEEN'S painter _par excellence_. Consequently he should be known in
England as "_Her_ ANGELI." May all good ANGELI guard Her Gracious
MAJESTY! Still, clever as Brother BRUSH may be, it will take a lot of
"ANGELI" to equal one "ANGELO," which his Christian name was "MICHAEL."
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