In Canada silver is so plentiful that traders are refusing to take it in piyment of debts above the legal tender, and people write complaints to the papers about ' the silver nuisance.' Messrs Bass possess an album about as big as a family Bible, containing a collection of all the forged trademarks of their beers, which they have been successful in discovering. Tliey have been collected from all parts of the world, from Britain to Japan. t) tiring the recent ' season ' at Saratoga a little knot of ladies, seated in the parlor ot Leland's hotel, were discussing the subject of marriage. One of the party, a single young lady, said: 'Matches are made in heaven.' 'Very likely,' was the quiet rejoinder of a married lady, her friend, ' and they are often dipped in the other place 1' ".-'■' In reply to an advertisement headed - "Use Thingumbob's Toothbrush !' a western editorsays •' We'll see Thingumbob hanged first, the dirty fellow I Would he like to use ours? '
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 299, 18 December 1867, Page 2
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