He : " I have heard of persons ugrly ?nough to stop a clock." She : " Yes""; ind T think you would stop anything by just looking at it." " L-et me look at S'our tongue, madam." A lad who had just left school and ;one behind a counter said to the rector Df his parish, " Are you coming- to the Young- Men's Society this evening-, Doctor ?" " Well, no," answered the parson, " I fear I have another engagement." " Oh, do come if you possibly 3an ; you'll enjoy It very much. I'm St)ing to smash Huxley and Tyndall, and [ may say I can do that, for I got the bead prize lsust year ia electricity and tnsumetism." In the country discricts, both In England and Germany, there is an idea that if the bees swarm upon a rotten tree there will be a death in the family owning or living- on the property before the expiras&SkJ)£ a twelvemonth-
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Lake County Press, Issue 903, 22 March 1900, Page 7
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