The most bashful girl ever heard of was the young lady who blushed when she was asked if she had not been courting sleep. “Is that marble i” said a gentleman, pointing to the bust of Kentuokey’s great statesman, recently in a New York store. “ No, sir, that’s Clay,” quietly replied the dealer.
A Norwich couple who had a pet cat which had grown helpless from age and extremely fitty, put it out of its misery by the agency of chloroform. They buried it in the garden, and planted a rosebush over its remains. The next morning it appeared at the door to be let in and had the rosebush under its arm.—“ Danbury News.”
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 6442, 6 December 1881, Page 2
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