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Oamaru Mail, Volume I, Issue 18, 12 May 1876, Page 2

A chai-ming little incident (says the " World ") happened at the tea-party to tho blind given the other night in the East of London. The chairman introduced a rev. gentleman to the audience with tlie statement that he was prepared either to sing to them or to make a speech, according to the bent of their inclinatum. The rev. gentleman forthwith began the speech, and after he had proceeded to some length stopped, and said in a genial manner, " Now, m y dear friends, as our chairman said, I am willing either to continue my speech or to sing to you. Which shall it be ! And all the blind men and women in the hall lifted up their voices and cried, "Sing!" So he sang. Nothing is so fatal to the romance of a kiss as to have your girl sneeze at the very climax of osculation. Put two persons in the same bedroom, one of whom has the toothache and the other is in love, and it will be found that the person who has the toothache will go to sleep first. The dentists of the United States have been holding a conversation, for the purpose, as the chairman said, of devising some means whereby they can all pull together.