To become the lion of a party it is not necessary to make a beast of one's ■3lf ' (i How do you do ?" exclaimed a gentleman, seizing a lady's hand and squeezing it rather rudely. "Oh, I am suffering from the pressure, sir." Departed Dear : " Why," asked a disconsolate widow, "is venison like my . late and never-sufficiently-to-beJamented husband ?" " Because —oh dear !— oh dear I—it's dear departed." A wife, having lost her husband, was inconsolable for his death. "Leave me to my grief," she cried, sobbing; "you know the extreme sensibility of my nerves— -a mere nothing upsets them 1"
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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1490, 14 May 1873, Page 2
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