A person who had been listening to a very dull address remarked that everything went off very well — especially the audience. A letter from Naples says, " Standing on the Castle Elmo, I drank in the sweep of the bay." What a swallow the writer must have had! In the recent race for the Two Thousand Guineas Stakes, at Newmarket, the Prince Imperial was ridden by French. Will the French ever be ridden by Prince Imperial ? XJ) uring the first battle of Bull Run a briga-dier-general discovered a soldier concealed in a hole in the ground, and ordered him to join his regiment. The man, looking him full in the face, placed his thumb upon his nose, and replied, "No you don't, old fellow ; you want this hole yourself."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 391, 14 August 1869, Page 2
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