MISCELLANEOUS.
Carpets are bought' by the yard and worn by the foot. A Good One.—America certainly does show considerable humor in the invention of its newspaper fibs—a hu. mor, says a contemporary,, of which there is not a trace in, the• English pa. pers. The last discovery there, ih of an abundant Bpring iiii Nevada of " ready made chicken broth,!'" only needing salt and pepper to- make it ready for the tureen. It is added that three pounds of beef boiled in.the liquid yielded by this spring will; yield as much beef tea as twelve pounds boiled in water, and that it also possesses a remarkable aptitude for hatching chicken's eggs. Clearly this ie the place for a colony of invalids. If a mine of thin, crisp, hot toast should only be discovered in the vicinity—which the fitness of things seems to render almost certain—there would only be wanting an abundant spring of water-gruel—"'thin, but not too thin," as Mr. Wodehouse says in '' Emma " to make it a heaven for convalescents.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 100, 13 January 1871, Page 3
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171MISCELLANEOUS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 100, 13 January 1871, Page 3
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