An intelligent gentleman from Germany, on his first viiit to an American church, had a contribution box with a hole in the top presented to him, and whispered to the collector '•I don't get mein bapers, unt can't vote." During a dense fog a Mississippi steamer took a landing. A traveller, anxious to go ahead, came to the unperturbed manager of the wheel, and asked why the boat stopped.. " Too much fog; can't see the river." "But you can see stars overhead." " Yes," replied the urbane pilot, " but till the biler busts we ain't goinpr that way." Passenger went to bed latisflei.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 732, 27 September 1870, Page 3
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102Untitled Star (Christchurch), Issue 732, 27 September 1870, Page 3
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