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Dunstan Times, Issue 835, 19 April 1878, Page 3

Vanity is a strong drink that makes all the virtues stagger. Without the rich heart, wealth is but an ugly beggar. A soup kitchen has been opened at Merthyr, Wales, for the relief of the starving children of the district, and or. the first day over 2,009 were provided with a dinner.

The annual death-rate in San Francisco is 2 per cent, of the total population. With a population of 300,000, the burials in the San Francisco cemeteries during IS7? numbered nearly 7,000. Attached to each of the Glasgow fireengines there is a small hose, which is used for scattering the crowd that usually assembles at a fire.

Mr Dana’s income as editor and stockholder of the Sun is said to bo over 50,000 dollars, but he earns every cent of it.—Ex. [You’re right; he does. If the champion liar of a glorious country like this ain’t worth that, what is he worth ?] Mr Lowe has written to a gentleman in South Wales—“ I am of opinion that the occupation of Constantinople by Eussia would neither injure our trade or endanger India; and I should be adverse to our going to war on such a ground.”

A case of so-called “ nicotine” poisoning has recently happened in England, which is attracting considerable attention. A child of about seven years if age amused himself by blowing soap bubbles in an old wooden pipe which had become foul by long usage. Shortly after vomiting and convulsions ensued, ami the child died.

The Prince of Wales’s sons are already, like the children of plebeians, displaying a degree of playfulness which gives some trouble. During a receut journey in a train they amused themselves by shooting peas at an unfortunate porter, who shook his fist at thsm, exclaiming, “ I’ll screw off your ears for you, you young rascals.” The Paris Charivari has a large sketch of the British lion “preparing to show his teeth.” The noble boast is sitting up like a poodle, and displays a pair of utterly toothless jaws, into which an adroit dentist is in the act of introducing a most formid-able-looking set of false teeth. This is not exaedy flattering to Englishmen. Persons who Patronise Papers should Pay Promptly, for the Pecuniary Prospects of the ‘ Press’ have a Peculiar Power of Pushing forward Public Prosperity. If the Printer is Paid Promptly, and his Pocketbook kept Plethoric by Prompt Paying Patrons, ho puts his Pen to his Paper in Peace, his Paragraphs are more Pointed, he Paints his Pictures of Passing events in more Pleasing colors, and the Perlisal of his Paper is a Pleasure to his People. Paste this Piece of Proverbial Philosophy in some Place where all Persons can Perceive it.— English Paper

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