Varieties.
-^Whatever maybe the end of man, there can be no doubt, when we see those long train* gra. efully sweeping the floori and roads, that the end of a woman is — " Dust." Why is a thief a kind of philosopher ? Because he regards everything from an abstract point of view, is opposed to all notions of protection, and is open to conviction. A subscription paper was lately circulated, with the following object in view: — "We subscribe and pay tho amount opposite our names for the purpose of paying the organist and a boy to blow the same." An American editor, noticing the present I of a silver cup to a contemporary, says : — | " lie needs no cup. He can drink from any vessel that contains liquor, whether the neck of a bottle, the mouth of a pickle-jar, the spike of a keg, or the bung of a barrel."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 182, 11 December 1868, Page 3
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148Varieties. Star (Christchurch), Issue 182, 11 December 1868, Page 3
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