MISCELLANEOUS.
An amorous swain declares he is so fond of his girl that ho has rubbed the skin from l.is nose by kissihg her shadow on the wall.
A housemaid in Chicago had her hair turn white in a single night last wci k. She fell head foremost ipto a dour barrel. At Dieppe, in Fiance, the following notice has been issued by the police “ The bathing police are requested, when a lady is in danger of drowning, to seize her by the dress and not by the hair which oftentimes remains in their grasp.” What is the best way to kill ants?— Hit your uncle's wife on the head with a hammer.
There is probably nothing else on earth that will roll like a hat. A gust of wind gets under your tile, and bciore yon real'so the extent of your catastrophe yon see it strike a bee-line for the nearest puddle cf water in which it settles with an indifference that is highly exasperating. No man yet ci or caught his hat until it got ready io stop, which is when it brings up under a waggon-wheel, or when ho drives it into the mud with his foot.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 668, 5 February 1875, Page 3
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200MISCELLANEOUS. Dunstan Times, Issue 668, 5 February 1875, Page 3
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