Cuiuosities of Language.— The Hindoos arc said to have no word for “ friend." The Italians have no equivalent for our “humility,” Tho llussian dictionary gives a word, tho dellnition of which is, “ not to havo enough buttons on your footman’s waistcoat the second is, *' to kill over again a third, “to earn by dancing.” The Germans call a thimble a “finger-hat,'*
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4373, 26 March 1875, Page 2
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61Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4373, 26 March 1875, Page 2
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