The Dictionary Wanted. —Noble guest; “ I have heard it’s impossible to eat turtle-soup with impunity,” Alderman ; “ I don’t know, my lord, I never tried it that way ; I always eat mine with a spoon.” Paper is now being largely manufactured in Belgium from wood, to the extent of from 20 to 30 per cent, in paper used for printing. The London Post-office has just issued a 9d. stamp. Soon after the death of the poet Wordsworth, a man met a farmer in the neighborhood, and said to him. “ You have had a great loss.”—“What loss?”—“Why, you have lost the great poet.”— “ Oh, ay,” said the farmer, “he is dead. But then, nae doubt, wife ’ll carry on t’ business, an’ mak it pay."
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 249, 7 April 1865, Page 3
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123Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume V, Issue 249, 7 April 1865, Page 3
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