A clergyman who mirried four couplea in one hour the other day, remarked to a friend that it was " pretty fast work." " Not so very fa«t," responded hiß friend ; "it'a only four knots an hour."
Fond rndther: "Are you better, my dear ?' Little Effie : " I dunno. Is the jelly all dove?"' Fond mother: "Yes." Little Effie : " Well, I'm well enough to get up then."
"Will you please help me, sir? I am poor and pick," "No," rcplisd the gentloman importuned ; "if you are foor you cannofc offord to be tick. I'm not one to cncourago extravagance."
In Denmark the members of tho Lat-ds-thiog and tho Folkething ure paid tfce same salary, 16a a day. The average number of working days in a eeesion is 145; the total amount for the came is £113 15s.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 214, 11 September 1886, Page 3
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