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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue XXVI, 31 July 1871, Page 3

Why do you suppose that France was craving for narcotics during the war ? — Because she was always wanting other nations to back her (tobacco). The following punning epigram is traced in letters a foot high in Paris :■— ' Nous voulons Bdpublique entiere, non pas un T(h)iers de Kdpublique. Why does a coat get larger when taken out of a carpet bag ?— Because when you ' take it out you'll find it in creases. Autographical.- It is considered cool to take a man's hat with hie name written in it, simply because you want to get his autograph. A Long Toothache. — An old man, when reading the lives of the antediluvian patriarchs, declared 'he wouldn't have lived in those daya for all the world, as a man stood the chance of having the toothache for more'n five hundred years.' Figures Cut on Ice. — In the graceful displays which youth of both sexes have lately been occupied with making on the frozen ponds, it; has been remarked that the ' G-rectian Bend' has not been generally so remarkable as the ' Eoman Fall.' — Punch. Patriot.-— »A man who has neither property nor reputatio* to lose.