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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume II, Issue 53, 3 July 1862, Page 5 (Supplement)

“ I’m glad tin's coffee don’t owe me anything,” said Brown, a boarder, at breakfast. “ Why ?” asked Smith. “ Because I don’t believe it would over settle,” Miles’s Boys. —There is a farmer in Putman county, New York, who has a mile of children! ITis name is Furlong, and ho has eight boys and and girls. Eight furlongs one mile! A voter in Scrra Country U.S., was about to “swear his vote in,” when the election judge cried out, “Take off your hat. Haven’t you got no respect for me nor God almighty ?” Sir ITenry Rivers, soon after he took orders, was told by a gentleman that hewouldundoubtedly become a bishop. “Indeed,” said Sir 11. ; “ why so?” “ Because Rivers invariably go to the sea.” An Irishman just from the sod, was eating some old cheese, when he found to his dismay that it contained living inhabitants. “Be Jabers,” said he, “ docs your chase in this country have chiklcr ?”