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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 226, 4 July 1873, Page 3

The Rev. Robert Lewers, says a Victor- • ian paper —the ' Eaglehawk Leader' fully maintained his originality of character at the Presbyterian"soiree the other night. Referring to the debt due upon the church, he his startled hearers with the assertion that there was no house of God in connection with the Presbyterians in Eaglehawk. Those who called it "ahouse of God" told a •" direct lie." " The word was", perhaps, hardly a suitable one for a platform, but if wrong it would recoil upon himself." This statement was made with an impressive seriousness that contrasted strangely with the explanation which followed soon afterwards, placing himself in a melo-dramatic attitude, the rev. speaker thus qualified his assertion—" You see there's a debt. on it, and it belongs to the" mortgagee." Poethy.—Barber : " ]>To offence, sir I hope, but has it ever struck you as a bald head is like the better world ?" Customer (curtly): "JSTo." Barber: "Well, sir, I thought of it myself. It's a bright and shiny place, "you, see, sir, where there's no parting!" (Customer, smiles painfully.) Mr. 11. Munns, of German Bay, Akaroa, last week killed a ewe, which had been kept about the premises as a pet lamb, and which weighed, after being dressed; 1551b5. The sheep was'bred by Mr. In-" 1 man, of German Bay, and was a half-bred Leicester. An artist who has painted a portrait of a gentleman noted for his frequent libations, invited the gentleman's friends to see. it. One ot them, who was rather near-sighted, approaching, it too closely, the artist in alarm exclaimed, -•" Don't touch it'; it isn't dry." "No uso Jooking at it, then," replied the gentleman, "It can't'be iny friend." '. A lazy.dyspepic was bewailing his own misfortunes, and speaking a -friendl on' the; latter s. "hearty •'.'appearance:' " What -do yoa r do. to make, yourself .so', strong and healthy ?" inquired -th«;-.dys-pepie. " Live on fru'ifc alone," a'iSpere'dthe friend. " What kind of fruit ?* The fruit of industry: and lam never'tr&bled 1 v/ith iadiges'ion." $? ' c - ? '