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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 5848, 27 December 1879, Page 3

Is the midst of the performance of an extravaganza at a Boston theatre an old man rises in the parquet and says he is displeased with his seat, as he is unable to hear well. One of the actors invites him to sit in a chair on the stage, which he does, and fi :ally takes a ludicrous part in the acting. It is not until near the close of the piece, so clever is the imposition, that the audience secs the old man is a member of the company. There are two kinds of things Should not vex us a jot; The things we can help. And those we can not. For, if we can help things, Why let us bo trying ? And. if we can’t help them, There’s no use in crying. Sceke: A jury-room in Milwaukee, jury assembled* door locked, everything awfully profoundly secret, “ Gentleman,” said the foreman, “you will now prepare your ballots for the verdict. The ballots are cast and counted. “Gentlemen,’ continues the foreman, “ I find eleven votes for the plaintiff and one for the defendant; who is the gentleman that voted for the defendant ?” No answer. The foreman takes the ballot in hand and asks each man if he deposited that paper. Ten answered “ no,” and the eleventh says : “ Jo, dot vos do one I poot in, but dat man he wrote it ; but I find for de man mit big whiskers.” Valuaule Discovery tor the Hair. —lf your hair is turning grey or white, or falling off, use “ The Mexican Hair Konewer, for it -will positively restorin every case Grey or White hair to its original color, without leaving the disagreeable smell of most “ Restorers.” It makes the hair charmingly beautiful as well as promoting the growth of the hair on bald spots, where the glands are not decayed. Ask your Chemist for “The Mexican Hair Eenewor,” prepared by Henry C. Gallup, 493 Oxford-street, London, and sold by Chemists and Perfumers everywhere at 3s 6d per Bottle.-—fADVT My breasts were losing dailythe allowance required to nurse my baby, who was falling away by the eye, and I found myself in the sad alternative either of weaning him at a season too dangerous for his health or to see him dwindling away from want of food. In this emergency I heard of Dusatt’s Syrup of Lactophosbate of Lime, which I took. What was not my delight seeing In a short time my breasts restored to a plentiful secretion and my baby improve in strength and health. I owe this public testimony to the inventor of this precious medicine, —Mrs. Louxobr, Winchester. Missing Friends GEEALD PHlLLlPS.—Something to his advantage awaits him by applying to Box 133, G.P.0., Wellington. JAMES ALEXANDER STEWART (son of late .Tames Stewart, Bournemouth, Hampshire, ''"gland) who was last heard of from (ixi . w Zealand, 19th July, 1869, and wa.- . ispecting the ranges for gold, request, il . . .unmunicatn with K. W. Williams, National Provincial Bank of England, Tenby, England. Should any person be in a position to give satisfactory evidence as to the above being alive or dead, he will be suitably rewarded.