A Lawyer's Toast.—At a dinner qf a. provincial Law Society, the president called upon the senior solicitor of the company to toast the person whom he considered the best, friend of the profession. " Then," responded he, " the man who makes his own will.'' About a thousand years ago a colony of Icelanders was plantedon the western coast of Greenland. They were hard people, inured to cold and meagre living, and there seemed to be no reason why they should not take root in the frozen soil of their new home. They built a stone church there, and stqne houses tq live in., of whiKh the ruins are still to be span. But what became of the builders ii ft question that has never been solved, and never will be. They vanished froth the face of the earth, and that is all that if fcno^rn. '."■■.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1887, 20 January 1875, Page 2
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