A Chicago man has fitted up a fiddle to run by steam. And the horrified neighbours are looking about for some contrivance that will enable them to run by steam. “ I have not,” says Billings, “ got as much munny as some folks, but I have got as much impudence as enny ov them—and that is the next thing tew munny “ That was very greedy of you, Tommy, to eat your little sister’s share of cake.” “ You told me, ma, 1 was always to take her part,” said Tommy. Visitor : See, now, would you like me to give you a sixpence ? Darling: Yes Visitor : Yes? Yes, if you—what? Darling: Ifyou can’t afford any more ! For the heinous crime of dealing with a Boycotted shopkeeper, an Irishman was compelled by the Land Leaguers to eat the soap he had purchased. Currycombing an offender is also a favorite punishment.
GRATEFUL—COMFORTING, EPPS’S COCOA. BREAKFAST. —“ By a thorough knowledge of the natural laws which govern the operations of digestion and nutrition, and by a careful application of the fine properties of well-selected cocoa, Mr Epps has provided our breakfast tables with a delicately-flavored beverage which may save us many heavy doctor’s bills. It is by the judicious use of such articles of diet the' a constitution may be gradually built up until strong enough to resist every tendency to disease. Hundreds of subtle maladies arc floating around us ready to attack wherever there is a weak point. We may escape many a fatal shaft by keeping ourselves'well fortified with pure blood and a properly nourished frame.”—See article in the Civil Service Gazette. Made simply with boiling water or milk. Sold only m packets, labelled : JAMES EPPS & CO., HOMOEOPATHIC CHEMISTS, LONDON. AIso—EPPS’S CHOCOLATE ESSENCE , for Afternoon me. HOUSES Wanted: see Advertisements in the Mail. Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday ; chief office, Pa tea. Three insertions for 65., under one inch of space.
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Patea Mail, 28 May 1881, Page 4
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315Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Patea Mail, 28 May 1881, Page 4
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