When are you like a spider ? — When you're walking into a fly. Weeding a garden is a" much safer business than un Weeding a widow, but not half so pleasant. In returning thanks, in an afterdinner speech, Brown declared that he was "too full for utterance." Miss Jemima Wilhemina, when her parents refuse to allow her to go to a ball, sets to and has a hawl at home. " Pigures won't lie," is an old and homely expression; but few men can look on a fashionable woman's figure now-a-days and say as much. To the Dutch tlie ladies of all nations are indebted for the invention of the thimble. The Dutch achieved this great invention- about the vear 1690.
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 21, 3 December 1874, Page 7
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