Proof Positive,—Wife (who has beea "sitting up")—Well, this is a .pretty time to come home. Four o'clock!" Husband (who has taken nothing but one glass of a eurious compound, spoken of by himself as " Wiskanwarra ")•—" Wha' you mean, madam, it sho 'appens corouslenuff, I parshed Big 3en, madam, and heard it strike one (hie) several times, madam ! " (Retires to bed in triumph and his hootsj. A. surgeon of Paris lately showed to one of hi s friends an instrument with a handle carved in bone, when the following touch of nature, d la Francaise, took place: "Do you know," he asked, "of what this handle is madef'WOf ivory, 1 suppose."— " No," said the doctor, while tears almost choked his voice, " it's the thigh-bone of my poor aunt."
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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 853, 28 October 1870, Page 3
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127Untitled Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 16, Issue 853, 28 October 1870, Page 3
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