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SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1911.
No. 1490. VOL. XXXV.
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Tormer-In the piece we Barnes Pia\ to-night the scene is laid Moat the time of the Boer War." Country Towner-Yes, and the eggs the boy s have been buying up were. laid about the same time. Ibis confinement, said the Priscn visitor, must distress you greatl, Yes, replied the facetious convict, find the prison bars grating. Ah, life to yon is a failure Yes it's nothing but a cell !
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The Rev. Sydney Smith, once Dean of St. Paul's. was a cleric only by coartesy, but a Very prince of wits. to the Bishop of New His letter Zealand Was very good. " When the canibal chiefs come to visit you, sir, say to th'm, 'I deeply regret to have nothing on my table suited to your tastes, but y ou will frnd plenty of cold curate, and roasted clergy man on the sideboard'; and if in spite of this prudent provision, r your visitors should end their Past by eating yourself, why, I sinThey sat at the edge of the wood Some y ears ago there was a trial with '' the prisoner is charged with killing cerely hope you will disagree of county dreamily at the reapers toila western in murder gazing citizens for one of the most exemplary them. country. Andrew Adams, Ireland, in which the evidence was ing in the sunny Odds, at the scarWhen a compiler of pedigrees ask- of this that the judge stopped tea let poppies that glowed among the ed him to have the Smith' coat -of - your honour, was in every respcct so weak case and directed the jury to return was beloved He a man. model a history. county a in arms inserted golden grain, and at each other. net member of the Church, and not once a verdict of " Not guilty." Sydney replied I regret sir. "Darling," he cried, " I vow by this guilty unchristof an who Valli known to he however, so lawyer, to A well-known to be able to contribute tree,, whose spreading branehes great was he fee your Why, the honour, for hal act. ian never something wished to do able work ; but the smiths us from the heat-by this noplay horses, shade claion seen bet never to they invariably sealed he had received for the defence, any' arms ; I swear that I have nta er tree ble tobac the or use drink whiskey, poker, med the privilege of addressing their letters with their thumbs." loved before." The girl smiled fainSomeone having asked him an ;in- co. Court. tly. " You always say such ap" Hold on a minute," the judge pertinent question about his grand" We'll hear you with Pleasure, Tom," she murin, disbroke " He : replied once he at father. said the judge, " but to propriate things, a chestnut tree.'' didn't is he bet horses? This say on " You " Asthe time the mured. of about appeared accident, we'll first acquh. * " That's what I said your honour prevent sizes. and we asked no questions." Prisoner." the " And he didn't play poker ? " Here ,re some of his mots Being kept within doors for a few " Never was known to Play a " A man of small understandlnz, is " What was old fat Macphee giv- dais by a severe cold, a city man merry where he can, not where be game." such a doing for ? " asked his wife who was going shop" And he never drank liquor ? " ing the editor should." office boy of the sub -edi- ping to get him three cigars, and the queries " Never a honour.drop your of Matrimony resembles a nair of " And he didn't chew tobacco ? " tor. Why, you know he gave a lec- gave her a shilling as the price joined that they cannot -,., " them. When she returned she hand" Never took a chew 'in his life!" opSo he seParated, often moving in to the Debating ed him the packet of cigars with a " Well, then," said the judge lean- ture last night posite directions, et always punishciety." " I don't a sigh. with triumphant air. " That shows that them. back ing between comes who ing anyone " Well, what about it ? " what he wanted to live for. men all hollow, women can beat Yo'e will find neoole ready enough see His subject was 'The Survival when it comes to making purchases to do the Samaritan, without the There' wasn't anything in life for him, and I don't see why he ain't the Fittest,' and the COMP. went she remarked. " I found a place oil and the two-pence." * * * about as well off dead as alive. Re - and made it read : 'Mr. MacPhee where I could get eight for a shilstyle inimitable own in his Sheriff, lectured and Mr. " Your honour," said a prosecut- lease the prisoner, ling instead of three." on 'The Survival of the Fattest.' ing attorney in a court of Texas, call the next case."
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