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Patea Mail, Volume IV, Issue 344, 3 August 1878, Page 4

A lady passing along the street in Melbourne the other clay, threw a sixpence to a blind man that was being led along by a dog. The coin fell on the ground, and was immediately pounced upon by some boys. The blind man put his foot upon the sixpence, and raising his hand in a menacing manner, exclaimed, “ You d young rats, I was too quick for you. I had my eye on you.” A Maori happened to be passing a shop in Timaru the other day, when he was struck by the automatic smoking man in the window. After gazing at it villi delight for some time, a bright idea entered his dusky head. Going into the shop ho asked, “ How much hoot you pay for te tangata ?” (meaning the little man in the window.) “ Ten pounds,” replied the proprietor. “ All right, Kapai you gib me ten pounds, me bring you my pickaninny ; he smoke all the same as other fellow.” The proprietor, however, could not sec that it was all the same,” A Missouri paper' announced a short time since that the “ wife crop in Gasconade County yields 15,000 gals, ’ Hie next week the editor came with an “ erratum”—for ivife read wine, “ Oh, heavens, save my wife !” shouted a man whose wife had fallen overboard in the Hudson river recently. They succeeded in rescuing her. her husband tenderly embraced her, saying: “ My dear, if you’d been drowned, what should I have done ? I ain’t going to Jet you carry the pocket-book again.”