Brevities
Mrs Partington has been reading tbe health a officer's weekly report, and,, thinks •MataT'V . must be an awful malignant disease, smoe asi many die of ib as all the rest put together.). , m There are many things in this world that are, j as deceiving as a fish-hook with a worm : 011.it. , -. You don't'feel the point until you bite.* -.-{?,. .i< . The man who was hemmed in. by'a crowd ha»< been, troubled with a gtitoh in iis mdc ever > ' "My German friend, howilong have yon beat < married P " " Yell, dia is a ting dat I seldom , don't like to talk apout, but when.l doeß, it " seems so long as it never vas, ■ * m m , ' A Miss Apple tried to 'commit suicide" at Mariposa, California, lately. "She must save; • been be "cider" self. • " " Were you ever at; pork, Mr Poote," said aa Irishman to the great comedian.' "Nojlnever , was at Cork," replied the wit, "but I bare ; seen a good many drawings of it;.",, , ; A negro lately died- The neighbours sua n» . was a blackamoor. We contend that he wa» not a blaoky more, but a blaoky lesa.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1465, 13 December 1879, Page 20
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187Brevities Otago Witness, Issue 1465, 13 December 1879, Page 20
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