"What are you worth ]" asked a rich old miser of a younir man who was corn-ting his only child. " Not much now ; but I'm coming into a large fortune in a few years," was the reply. The marriaae took place, and then the old miser learned that the large fortune which the young man was coming into was his father-in-law's.
The famous wit and beauty, Lady Wortley Montague, made the mos sarcastic observation ever published about her own sex. "It goes far," she said, " to recoucile me to being a woman when I reflect that I am thus in no danger of ever marrying one." Dr Robert Ludgate, of Berlin, claims to be the real discoverer of the microphone and telephone. By his instrument the speech comes loud and clear, so as to be best heard at a little distance. It is also declared to be the best for deaf persons. The apparatus has been tested at a distance of nearly 200 miles, and altogether it is to be the miorotelephone of tho future.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 940, 3 November 1879, Page 2
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