A little five-year old boy, who had Been a peacock for the first time, ran into the house exclaiming to his sister, "Oh Lizzie! I've seen a great, great, big monstiferous tail walking around with a hen tied to it. There are living at Fall River, Mass, a married pair whose united ages are more than 205 years. The husband, Francis Miner, was born m St. Mary's Canada, and was 102 years old last January ; the wife was born m St. Charles, Canada, and will be 104 years old next November. The woman is the more vigorous of the two, but both are obliged to keep their beds most of the time.
NOTICE. rpHE premises of the undersigned X will BE CLOSED ou WEDNESDAY EVENING, at 0 o'clock, and during THURSDAY, 18th mat., being a Jewish" Holiday. H. LEWIS, ~T Gladstone-road, -
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 890, 15 September 1879, Page 2
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141Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 890, 15 September 1879, Page 2
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