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New Zealand Tablet, Volume XIX, Issue 38, 26 June 1891, Page 11

Mtees and Co., Dentists, Octagon, come rof George street. The guarantee highest claw work at moderate fees. Their artificial teeth gives general satisfaction, and the fact of them supplying a temporary denture while the gums are healing does away with he inconvenience of being months without teeth. They manufacture a single artificial tooth for Ten Shillings, and sets equally moderate The administration of nitrous oxide gas is also a great boon to those needing the extraction of a tooth. Read. — [adyt " A curious custom more than six hundred years old, survives in England. It is the granting of the famous flitch of oacon at Dunmow to the couple that bad been married one year, if both can say truthfully that they have net quarrelled with each other or wished themselves unmarried. The oath taken to that effect is in verse, a long strange, wandering lot of rhymes. During the last three hundred years but five couples have woa the prizes. Six maids and six bachelors compose the jury, and an amusing incident is told of a couple that appeared before them to claim the reward. As a last test, the bacon was put at the top of a greased pole, and the husband told to climb up and get it. He looked ruefully at the committee. Ah he said, " I have my best clothes on, and if I get them greased my wife will scold me soundly." It is needles? to aid that be and his scolding wife went away without tha flitch of bacon. The Sunday T\mes says :— Bnglish Roman Catholics will be pleased to hear that the courteous Monsignor 8»tolli will probably be the next Nuncio in Paris, in place of Htnsignor Rotelli, who if about to be raised to the Cardinalate. The Papal Embassy here is the last diplomatic resting-place nntil a Nunciature ie established in London. This eventuality is still a long way off ; and it is stated that its chief opponents are the English Catholic Bishops, who believe that in these days of rapid travel and electric communication, a papal Nunc.o to the Court of St. James'fl would be an undesirable luxury, if not au encumbrance,