The Railway of Life.
Short was the passage through this earthly rale By turnpike roads when mortals used to wend; Bat now we travel by the way of rail, As soon again we reach the journey's end. A Moral in Money. —At Genoa, certain French five-franc pieces have been found with the motto, Dieu punira la France, on the edge, instead of Dicuprotfgeja France.. We doubt not the realisation of the prophecy, " God will punish France!" And how? Why, by causing the slaves of Franca to crown Louis .Napoleon their Emperor. How Impejator Stork, with his crown on, will gobble the frogs! The " Lap "*of Luxury.—Genuine milk in London. Epitaph on a Xiooomotite. By the »»le turvivor of a deplorable accident (no bjame to}* at tacked to any servant* of the Company.) - Collisions four Or five she bore, > The Signals wor in vain; Grown old and rusted, Her biler busted, And smash'd the Excursion Train. " »«r ©nfr toai l&ietti."
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New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 793, 9 March 1853, Page 4
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159The Railway of Life. New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume IX, Issue 793, 9 March 1853, Page 4
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