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Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3328, 25 October 1871, Page 2

A short time since two fashionable German young ladies were holding high converse ovor tho virtues of a corlain new dress — f And does it fit well ?' aaked ono, ' Fib aa if I had been meltod and poured in.' A capital letter. — Ono containing a remittance. ' Why did ho not Die ?' ia the title of a new novel. Answer— Bocauße he refused to take his medicine. Tho " Boatou Post" has au announcement of the death of several citizens ' from throat disease superinduced by razors.' • You are moro than half blue, 1 as tho huni« rning bird observed to the violet. — • I have a drop in my eye,' the violet replied. Why is Louis Napoleon like a retired Vauxhall cook ? — Becaußo he thinks upon Sam, and remembers when he cut it. The Spaniarda have a proverb that (Drinking water neither makes a man Biok, nor in debt, nor his wife a vridow.' The agent of a Pennsylvania marble worker persuaded a widow to buy a atouo for the grave of her dead husband by promising to marry her. There ia no need, of praising the present style of ladies' dresses, for they are ' puffod' j enough already.