In describing a new organ, a country editor says —" The swell died away in delicious suffocation like one singing a sweet song under the bedclothes."
Somebody says, in allusion to corporal punishment,' that the pnpil most to be pitied is the pupil of the eye, because it is always under the lash.
It is claimed that the philosopher Thales was a milkman, because he believed water to be the first principle of all things. Fokce OF Habit.—A tax-gatherer was observed the other evening all alone in the corner moody, meditative, and frowning. His work was over for the day, but from force of habit (coming from being always in the receipt of cugbom) he was collecting himself.— '■ funcJi."
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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 111, 18 May 1870, Page 2
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118Untitled Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 111, 18 May 1870, Page 2
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