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Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 162, 5 February 1878, Page 3

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" Champagne Charley," the bacchanalian Englishman, is dead. Charles Thorpe was born i) 4 \r>ars ago. His father left him £10,000 a year. Being clever, he sought the society of literary men ; and liking a social glass, hiss means enabled him to choose champagne, hence, a few years ago, after his exploits had been told so often as to make him comparatively well known about London, some one embalmed him in verse, and " Champagne Charley" was long a favorite song in the music halls. He never liked it, and always denied that he was the original of the song, and his friends deny it to-day, in deference to his memory. But it is true, nevertheless. A lady correspondent says that girls should cease to be kissed by their gentlemen friends when they put on long dresses. We never kissed anybody in our life, but we'd just like to know what difference the length of the dress makes.--Burlington Hawkeye. A liberal English Baptist has offered £1,000 toward the establishment of a station in Central Africa by the Baptist Missionary Society. Over eleven hundred persons were added to the Congregational churches in Wisconsin last year on professions of faith, and six new churches were formed. Archbishop Purcell recommends the establishment in the archdiocese of Cincinnati of schools for Catholic co'ored children, to serve as churches for adults also. An orange filled with five different lands of jellies is a Chinese delicacy. Dr Mott asserts that butter made from animal fats is fully as good as dairy butter. Adrian, Michigan, claims to have more doctors to the acre than any city of its area in the United States.