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Globe, Volume IV, Issue 352, 29 July 1875, Page 4

Adittle time ago a landlord who was talking boastfully about his customers, said, " Mr—is the most regular customer I have; he comes here and gets drunk every Saturday, and has done the same for ten years, except when his mother died, and that time he came on the Sunday. It's a grand thing being punctual." '' Pathrick, dear, come in and go to bed jist," said the wife of a jolly son of Erin, who had just returned from the fair in a decidedly " how-come-you-so" state; "you must be dhreadful tired shure, wid yer long walk !" ', Arrah ! git away wid yer nonsense" said Pat, it wasn't the length av the way that fataguecl me; 'twas the breadth av it?" An editor in Vermont bemoans the calamities of the present year in the following touching strain :—"First the Beecher business, then the grasshoppers, then the democratic victories, and now an increased tax on whisky ! My goodness, what is this country coming to?"