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Ashburton Guardian, Volume IV, Issue 820, 16 December 1882, Page 3

“ Joined the Jerked ” is the Chicago Tribune’s alliterative headline for an account of an execution. There is* no language in the world which could put bo much beauty and pathos into so few words. This is from Suva To his horror a guest at Sturt’s table discovered a long hair in the butter. He gazed at it in horror for a moment and then shouted, “Waiter.” “Yes, Sir.” “ Bring me some bald-headed butter, will you 1 A preacher, raising his eyes from his desk in the midst of his sermon’ was paralysed with amazement to sec his rude boy in the gallery pelting the hearers in the pews below with horse-chestnuts. But while the good man was preparing a frown of reproof, the young hopeful cried ou t—“You tend to your preaching, daddy, and I’ll keep ’em awake.” A fakir has been giving sleight-of-hand performances in Galveston (U.fe.) One of his feats was to make a dollar disappear in the sight of the crowd, which he successfully did. “That marked dollar will be found in the vest-pocket of the colored gentleman,” said the fakir, pointing with his magic wand to Sam Johnsing. All eyes were rivetted on Sam, who advanced to the front. “ Boss, heah is your change ; I has had two beers and a segar outer dat dollar you told me to keep in my vest pocket till you called foah it !

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