A young man sent his sweetheart a box of grapes, ouc afernoon lately, and the aext day a fellow met him on the street and said—- " Those grapes were jolly good lass night; you know." An exceedingly modest young lady, desiring the leg of a chicken' at the table said "I'll take the part which ought to be dressed in trousesr." A young gentleman opposite immediately said, " I'll the part which ought to wear the bustle." Hartshorn was admistered to the lady. Be always at leisure to do good; never make business an excuse to decline the offices of humanity. Au enthusiastic African, who had spent do winter in Jamaky," found it an earthly paradise. He said he could " lie abed, and putting his arms out de windy, pick orangefl, pineapples, and Jamaky rum right off the trees."
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Globe, Volume I, Issue 8, 9 June 1874, Page 3
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