A LASTING INVENTION.
A number of mol) on thi 1 .street wore having a dismission as to who nan the greatest inventor. Some said Edison, some Watt, some, Morse, come one and some another. Finally a [pawnbroker got in a word, and slid: “Veil, chentlemens, dose vas ure id peoples, but I tells yon dot man rot invented interest vas no c-huicb.” ALL FOR HER SAKE— AiS USI AL. The colored sexton of a wealthy church had a very stylish millolio wife. Finding his domestii; income not_ quite equal to his expenses he decided to apply for an increase in salary. So he wrote a letter to the committee in charge with this explanation at the- close: “It’s mighty hard to keep a sealskin wife on a
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2086, 11 January 1908, Page 6 (Supplement)
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127A LASTING INVENTION. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2086, 11 January 1908, Page 6 (Supplement)
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