Definition or a Blush. —A writer in the Medical Gazette gives the following lucid explanation of the phenomenon of a lady's blush :—" The mind communicates with the central ganglion ; tho latter, by iiillox action through the brain and facial nerve, with the organic nerves in the' face, with which its branches inosculate." The explanation beats Dr. Johnson's celebrated definition of " network," " anything reticulated or decussated at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." Not Fond op it.—A,certain Scotch friend of ours, who is not a member'of tho temperance society, being asked by a dealer to purchase some fine old whiskey, drily answered: "To tell you the truth, sir, ' X canna say I'm very fond of whiskey ; for it' i tuk mair than ail tumblers it's very opt to give a, body tho hs&dachSi"
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New Zealand Herald, Volume III, Issue 681, 19 January 1866, Page 5
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