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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 567, 14 October 1869, Page 3

Over-Sexsitiyeness.—A great deal of discomfort arises from over-sensi-tiveness about what people may say of you or your actions. This requires to be blunted. Consider whether anything you can do will have much comnection with what they will say. And, besides, it may be doubted whether they will say anything at all about you. Many unhappy persons seem to imagine that they are always in an amphitheatre with the assembled world as spectators; whereas all the while they are playing to empty benches.

Miners rights gives a man a right 2 transform hisself in 2 a mole and burra in the Erth for gold and Monster dymonds—To leave traps for people 2 decend rapidly 2 a depth of fifty or sixty feet without the assistance of a rope fur the benfit of Doktors and koroners—To dekorate the surfas of the Erth with pikterest heaps of mullock etcettery. An eccentric west country laird was on one occasion invited* by the Duke of Hamilton, with whom the laird had some business, to lunch at Hamilton palace. A liveried servant waited upon them, and was most assiduous in his attentions to the Duke and his guest. At last our eccentric friend lost patience, and, looking at the servant, he said " What the deil are ye dance, dancin' about the room that gait; can ye no draw in yer chair, and sit down like a wise body, and get a share of what's goin'? There's plenty on the table for three." In a valedictory address an editor wrote : —" If we have offended any one in the short but brilliant course of our public career, let him send us a new ha?, and we will then forget the past," Preparing eob the Press.—Taking off one's glove to say good-bye to one's beloved.

A shrewd observer says that men should never. talk sense to ladies. "Phey want poetry, sentimentality, and eye-white.