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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 104, 1 May 1880, Page 2

The gatekeeper of a Western toll bridge was dischaVg'ed recently, because he always allowed his sweetheart to pass over free. He never tolled his love. — Hartfort 2'imes. A Maine man who didn't care two shakes of a larnb'ri tail about the newspaper, rode fourteen miles through a fierce snow storm to get a copy of a weekly that spoke of him as a "prominent citizen." — Boston Post" A Facer. — In a certain New South Wales township tne police magistrate displays , an exaggerated aeuse of hia personal importance. : He regards himself as the head man of the district, arid takes care to let his self-appre-ciative views be generally known. He was lately on ; a vißit to Melbourne, and with a friend visited a fashionable tailor's. Just after he hiid'beeu measured, and before he , had resumed his coat, an itinerant game vendor came into the shop and asked him to' buy. With an air of lofty disdain he rebuked the vendor, for his impertinence in addresaing .him. "tieg your patdori, sir," said the : game merchant,' " I meant no offence. I thought y6u,wier.e the tailor." He has not? * yet recoveted the shock.— Australian.