One church in Waterloo, N. Y., has thirtythree widows, and with true Waterloo spirit the men “ die but never surrender.” A few days ago, a resident of Detroit was taken sick and sent for a doctor. The doctor left a prescription and, with it a request that, one of the children should call at his office the next day and say how the patient was doing. A little girl came, and when questioned, she promptly answered: “Please, sir, father is getting better; he’s broke the stove all to pieces this morning, and been a’ fighting mother, just like he used to.” ' . , A schoolboy being asked, by his teacher of what the German Diet was; constituted,- replied sourkrout, schnapps, lager, beer, and nix:cumnmst be a Cousin-German to the boy who, when shown a pictured “ Luther at the Diet of. Wonns,” said, Papa, T see Luther, but where are;the worms?” ‘ ,
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Evening Star, Issue 3401, 15 January 1874, Page 3
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148Untitled Evening Star, Issue 3401, 15 January 1874, Page 3
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