It is curious to nonce fiom time to time how anecdotes crop up to show us how great a. punishment the sensation of cold becomes amongst those who are unable to procure adequate food and clothing. Tho story runs that a Scotsh divine, whilst picaching to his flock in the extreme north of our island, painted the infernal regions as desolated by perpetual ice, and when remonstrated with by a Southerner fur his heresy, declared that he did it nil for the Ihsi, inasmuch as, if he had painted h II as a hot pIaCH, evi-ry one of his parishioners would have tried to get there. The best capital to begin life with is a J capital wife. The worst organ-grinder — A hollow tooth that plays the deuce. Why is the letter T like your nose ?— Because it goes before V. Ink made from India-rubber is the latest invention. It will be used mainly by writers who are inclined to 'streich a fitory.'
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume III, Issue 59, 11 March 1868, Page 2
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