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Southland Times, Issue 4156, 25 October 1881, Page 4

■"*' : ' A Corpulent clergyman rose at a public <■ dinner to return thanks, which he did by lay- •' in^ bis hand on his stomach, and saying 'We tbanktbee for these blessing?, so boun--1 tifally spread, and for our capacity to eDJpy '-them/ The theory that a submerged body can be ; raised b*yfiiiiier a cannon over it was recently 'prpved ; _ih Chica?o. A plumber named Leonard had jucsped off the wharf and 'drowned himself, and his friends got out the artillery and raised him by. firing over the spot 'where he had gone down, the plumber mistaking the sounds for bursting waterpipes. An instance of astonishing quickness is re- , lated of ihe witty Duke of Buckingham. Be- **' ' ing fireseat at the first representation: of oue 117 of Dry den's pieces of heroic nonsense^ where > a lover -eayp, 'My wound is great, bc;>i,;Cause it is so small I' the Duke cried out. '.;?"' Then,- 'twonld be greater, were it none at all.' The play was instantly damned. In one of .the ■ latest- days of Fox, the con- •- .yereation ins company once turned upon the comparative wisdom of the French and English character, ' The Frenchman, it was observed, delights himself with the present ; "the Englishman makes himself anxious about the future. Is not the Frenchman the wiser V " 'He may be the merrier,' said Fox"; ' but did k /you ever hear of a savage who did not buy a ' ,Hi^Torinste«d of a. telescope !' ,