An old author quaintly remarks :l- --" Avoid argument with ladies.. In •pinning yarns among silks and sating, a man is sure to be worsted and twitted. And when a man is worsted and twisted ho may consider himself wound up." A ventriloquist fell overboard in Lake Erie the other day, and was drowned. When the cry of "Help, help!" came from under the bulwarks, the deck hands said "he couldn't fool them," and went right on with their work. '' J In Nevada, when a building falls and kills two or three persons, the jury first hunt up the contractor and hang him, then bring in a verdict that ndbody is to blame bat the contactor, who cannot be
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Southland Times, Issue 2673, 3 February 1877, Page 2
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