Magistrate (to prisoner): "You are charged with thrashing your wife. Are vou guilty or not?" "Guilty, your worship," replied the prisoner, with smiling countenance. "Well," snapped the inagistratc, "I don't see what there is to laugh about. Don't you know that-you arc in a serious position?" replied the prisoner, "but I've been married ten vears, and of all the scrapping we ever had this is the only time I haven t come out of it second best. Have a cigar, your Ilonour?"
For Chronic Chest Complaints,. Woods' Great Peppermint Cure, Is. Gd., is. 6d.—Advt. A postman walking along the beach at Lydden Spout, halfway between Dover and Folkestone, discovered a bottle which contained a letter addressed to a Dover lady. It was delivered, and found to have been thrown from an Atlantic- liner by a friend who was going to New York. The joints endure much use because they aro constantly lubricated by an oil secreted, by glands specially adapted to that puVpose,
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 12
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163Page 12 Advertisements Column 2 Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 972, 12 November 1910, Page 12
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