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Southland Times, Issue 3306, 24 January 1879, Page 3

Dog seller—" That 'ere hanimal's the real stock, rnura, and dog cbeap at five pounds." Young widow—" It's a sweet, pretty darling, black and white ; but, in my present state of bereavement.you must procure me one. entirely black. This 'will do very, well for half mourning in about six months!" " You see, my dear," he explained, " the man was climbing the ladder with a hodf ul of mortar on his shoulder. Just as I passed under it he slipped, and the Avhole contents of the >hod came down on my | head." " Hoav .ridiculous you must have looked," she -replied. "On the contrary, my dear, I was ! sub-lime." THIS was told of Gilbert AVhite, the naturalist ofSelborne, by one.pfhis nephews :— His old servant came to him one day and said, j ; " Please sir, I've been and broke a glass." "Broke a glass, Thomas !- How did you do ' that?" ".I'll show you, sir." So he Avent and brought a wineglass, Avhich he threw on the floor, saying, " That's how I broke it, sir." I " There, go along, Thomas. You are a great fool," said his master ; and then muttered, " And I was as greai-a one for asking such a foolish question." A New Theoky of Chemistry. — At the last sitting of the French Academy of Sciences a very remarkable communicatioi was read by M. Dumas from Mr Norman -Lockyer, Avhieh, should his views turn out to be correct, will entirely overthrow all the theories of chemistry at present accepted. In a series of investigations, extending over some years, into the nature of the spectia of the sun, of other celestial bodies, and the .tutiiioiaj sp'ectraol difiereut simple bodies at