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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 33, 7 July 1885, Page 2

Iriona of the' metropolitan boroughs*/ Liberal .butcher offered s gentleman, wlijo was .passing by,, his shop, a beauti- , fill; Liberal caifY headi - ; •? No, ; thank you," replied the .gentleman,.!' I have a paticularbbjectiou 16 Liberal' heads of any sort,". The next time he passed the shop, the enterprising tradesmanHaid he had : a 1 real 'Conservative^ calf's head. The man ordered it to be : sent hofn«, and when plnced on the table, he a«|c«-d how it was they had not^poolced the "brains. ''Bacaiißo ho ' brains ' were ■iien't," 'was the reply. He went next r dajr'and complained to the butcher that r no brains were sent with the calf's head. 'Xhe.tradejsmi^ instantjy wplied.J*.But,,■'4 y^M, Ordered -a Conservative, whichi-.t---»«»ht." '•'• Not so for » member I of ! the ••stupid party." ' A. Birmingham man made a het that: he ctyild invent a question to which fifty people would all (rive the same answer. v He'won ithe^bet. 1 The question was—" Hare you heard that Smith has committed suicide?" The answer m each case was-—" What Smith^^^^