Why is paper-money more valuable than coin I— Because you double it when you put it into your pocket. Lost wealth may be replaced by industry ; lost knowledge by etudy ; lost health by temperance or medicine ; but lost time is gone for ever. “ Why do you set your cup of coffee on the chair, Mr. Jones ?” said a worthy landlady, one morning at breakfast. “It ie so very weak, ma’am,” said Jones, “I thought I would let it rest.” The early apple cometh, and the undertaker hummeth, and his face is lighted up with joys; and. he calculates colic, with its twinges diabolic, will double up and spifiicate the boys. JacK Uidstock : “ We’re very proud of oui ancestry, youknow.” Tom Parvenu ; “ Yes, 1 know ; but how would your ancestry feel about you ?” The cholera is increasing at Alexandria, and four fresh deaths have occurred. We hear a good deal about the “ rage for speculation;’’ but the rage generally comes after speculation. Rats are one of the curses of Tanna. They are everywhere.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 33, 7 January 1884, Page 2
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172Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 33, 7 January 1884, Page 2
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