The churches of New York are burdened with mortgages to tbe amount o£ $2,867,000. „ ' An exchange says:—lf you want to talk heavy science, say proto x yd of hytrogen, instead of ice. It sounds bigger, and not one in a thousand will know what you mean. The Phytolacca Electrica, a plant lately discovered in Nicaragua, gives a shock to the hand when one attempts to break off a The eccentric President "Finney of Oberlia College, while on a visit to an iron furnace in Cleveland, asked a sweating puddly if ho - , was aware he was bound for hell. “ No, replied the puddler unconcerned. “Do you know how hot hell is ?” asked the preacher. “ I suppose,” said the puddler* “if you were there and given a saucer of this molten iron, you would think it ice cream.” Finney for once gave up the contest. -
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Saturday Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 124, 24 November 1877, Page 3
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