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«. An Irish paper says:—" Dr Hayes wishes to go North again. No Arctic explorer is really happy until he has failed to come back." Illinois boasts as many bogs as it has citizens man for man. This is a curious way of taking the census, and severely complimentary. A coloured gentleman in Texas went into a blacksmith's shop with his coat tail full of powder. He came out through the roof I An lowa editor acknowledges the receipt of Congressional documents in advance of the mail. The way it occurred was this :— A wolf chased the carrier about four miles. They want the Government to put on that route a number of able-bodied wolves to facilitate matters. A Belgian hair-dresser advertises the peculiar excellence of his "superfine genuine bears' grease,*' by exhibiting in front of hia shop an iron cage, containing a live bear. A noice is posted up over tbe doomed animal, " To be killed in a few days and made into grease at 5 francs the pot. N.B. — Those who are anxious for an immediate supply, can be supplied with some choice grease from the wife of the animal exhibited, who expired from grief at the Zoological Garden of Antwerp."
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 597, 21 April 1870, Page 3
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204Varietie s. Star (Christchurch), Issue 597, 21 April 1870, Page 3
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