Woman was created m order to prevent man from becoming too happy. Whatever she does turns out to be for our ill. Nowadays one requires a character so black that mud will not stick on it. Then there is a ohanoe for one to get on. General Ben Viljeon, the captor of raider Jameson, and one of the Boer leaders m the last war m South Africa, is now running a fourth-<class post office at Chambftrino, U.S.A. A popular clergyman, taken to task for the setting up' of a billiard-table m his house, said : "If.the devil has all the best tunes, there is no rea-N son why he should have all the best games." A Christchurch son-oi-a-gun named Georee Pearson was found m a violent state of alcoholic agony t'other night, and he told an enquiring policeman that he had been run over by about six trams, two motorbikes, and fourteen busses, and other sundries. He was taken to the doctor's quite alive. "Plain drunk," said the doctor; Fined !
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NZ Truth, Issue 97, 27 April 1907, Page 4
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169Untitled NZ Truth, Issue 97, 27 April 1907, Page 4
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