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Globe, Volume III, Issue 230, 5 March 1875, Page 4

In a Montana newspaper there lately appeared the following :—" A number of deaths are unavoidably postponed. Teacher : " Napoleon Alexis O'Grub, come up here and say your lesson. What makes the boys grow V" Student: "It is the rain, sir," Teacher : " Why not men grow?" Student: "Because they carry umbrellas, which keeps off the rain." Teacher: "Is it a matter of fact or opinion that the moon has or has not mountains 1" •' Yes, Sor, I think it is." Teacher: "Which?'- Student: "Faix, and ye've got me there illigantly: for, to tell the truth, it's meself that hasn't the slightest idea." "The 'rage' in colours," says the Court Journal, a popular London contemporary, "is now the famous ' elephant's breath,' which is described as a ' very beautiful shade of blue, with a sort of mistiness about it.' When and where will the ' rage' end?" We should fancy the "rage" would end in hydrophobia colour. A coach and four came driving into Union town at full speed, and just as it drew up in front of the hotel one of the horses dropped dead. "That was a very sudden death," remarked a bystander. " Sudden!" replied the driver: "that horse died nine mUes from here, but I wouldn't let hka drop until I got him into town,"