' Good morning, Mr Heupeck,' Baid a printer in search of female compositors, ' have you any daughters who would make good type setters ?' ' No, but I have a wife who would make a fine devil. 1 HEAE*SIsr. — £h Ohio editor heard Nilsson. Hear bja ravo : — ' She can go up to fever heat ,^B||Mj§Ffifty degrees below zero with bb much Je^ra* water runs off a goose's baok, and her voicif fascinates wherever it reaches. She flute and sbarpe with the accuracy of the pianoforte, and her voice dies away like the echo of the voice of mercy.' When a certain famous theatrical manager acquited the business, and opened instead a large shop for the sale of patent medicines, a friend drily remarked that he would now no doubt be successful in filling both boxes and pit. 'Dennis, darling, ooh, Dennie, what is it you're doing ?' 'Whisht, Biddy, Fee trying an experiment ;' ' Murfher ! what is it ?' ' What is it, did you say ? Why, it's giving hot water to the chickenß I am, bo they'll be after laying lotted eggs. 1
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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3327, 24 October 1871, Page 3
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Page 3 Advertisements Column 1
Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3327, 24 October 1871, Page 3
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