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Grey River Argus, Volume VIII, Issue 568, 7 September 1869, Page 3

Madame de Montespan was continually saying she was thirty years of age. "It must Toe true," said Talleyraud ; »• I have heard it these twenty years." There was a tittering the other day at a wedding breakfast when one. of the guests wished the bride ."many happy returns of the happy occasion." It was resolved at a late temperance meeting in Wisconsin that "temperance ia a natur«al virtue, and indispensable to raise men to the level of animals." A curiosity of meanness has been exhibited iv San Francisco. During the settlement of an estate in the city,, on the 24th of January, it was discovered that a brother of the deceased had charged the estate 4 dollars for loss of time white attending the funeral. There; is a member .of the House of Representatives in Washington who decides all his votes on private subsidy bills by tossing up one of the old-fashioned copper cents, which he keeps on his desk for that purpose. He thinks that he votes more honestly and quite as intelligently as his colleagues. A sailor, who has recently returned from Newfoundland, says that the fog is so thick there that he used to drive a nail in to hang his hat on. A man down east has invented yellow spectacles for making lard look like butter. They are a great saving of expense if worn while eating. A youth smoking a cigar, having entered a menagerie, the proprietor requested him to take the weed from his mouth, "lest he should teach the other monkeys bad habits."

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