Both watermen and wild Indians feather their “ skulls.” One of the hardest trials of life is to shed tears at the news that your wife’s undo has died and left her o ', 00!)/. A widower who wishes to marry again must buy his cfeparted wife a beautiful monument. This succeeds invariably. The “ Ararat Advertiser” says, —There is a i atient in the Ararat Asylum whose madness has taken a singular and rather pleasing form of development. The man is an Italian, and every evening he sings mass in his native tongue, with great beauty and power. Ilia voice is rem rkahly rich and full, and the rendering is well worth listening to. The Ararat Agricultural show was hold on the 4th ultimo in a continuous snow storm, which lasted all day There was the largest number of entries ever made at an Ararat show, 85 in sheen and 30 in cattle. The squatters and selectors keenly competed. The arrangements were well carried out, and all the prizes were awarded. There was scarcely anyone present beyond the judges, exhibitors and the committee. The mounts and hills round Ararat: woe fovried with tnow from fa to summit.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 598, 3 October 1873, Page 2
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