A " Down-East " Yankee has recently inrented a rat exterminator, consisting of a sort of powder snuff. The animal jerks his head off at the third sneeze. The servant of a 1 rusaian officer one day met a crony, who enquired of him how he got along with his master. " Oh, excellently," replied the servant; " we live on very friendly terms. Every morning we bent each other's coats; the only difference is, he takes his coat off, and I keep mine on." A Missouri paper says it knows of a girl there, who, one night last summer attended a ball, danced all night, went home in the morning, got breakfast, dinner, and supper for ten harvest hands, did a two weeks' washing and the milking, made a calico drees, practised her music lesson, went blackberrving, gathered a gallon, walked to town in the evening to attend a concert, and walked home again before bedtime.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 502, 28 December 1869, Page 3
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153Untitled Star (Christchurch), Issue 502, 28 December 1869, Page 3
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