A Pert Reply.—Lord J. Russell endeavoured to persuade Lord Langdale to resign the permanent Mastership of the Roll's for the uncertain position of Lord Chancellor,; and paid the {learned lord very high.compliments on Ids talent and acquitments. "Itis useless talking, my lord," said Langdale. " Sc* •lon-fas I enjoy the R0115,.! care nothing for your butter." !
Some ope was-talking to Thackeray of a certain gentleman's strange addiction to beer, " It's a pity," said he, "that he does not keep a check-rein on himself, for he is a marvellous fellow otherwise—l mean-for talent; I hardly knew his .equal." . ' No," retorted Thackeray, he is a' remarkable man. Take' him for half-and-half, we ne'er shall look upon his like again." .
In San Francisco one EuperfMoneli is suing another man to recover: §6OOO I for documents dating back one hundred I and fifty years before Christ, and said to ; have been feloniously abstracted from the plaintiff's liouse. The'fact of the felony is not denied, but the defendant considers the value of the manuscripts as greatly exaggerated.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 162, 12 April 1872, Page 3
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171Untitled Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 162, 12 April 1872, Page 3
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