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James Gordon Bennett, the proprietor of the New York Herald, is said, by persons who have seen him in Paris lately, to have become prematurely old. His hair is turning grey, and he is as slow and precise in his movements as an old man. His chief amusement now is baccarat. Dr. W. H. Russell, the Nestor of the special correspondents, was married the other day in Paris. Dr. Russell, who bears his 65 years well, and his charming bride, Mdlle. Antoinette Malvezzi, stood for half-an-hour on a raised dais in the chapel adjoining the church, and received the congratulations of all the numerous friends who defiled to shake hands with the happy pair. A lawyer, too proud to allow his friends to suppose that he practised in the divorce courts, advertises, “ Misfit marriages a specialty. The details of G. A. Sala's Australian tour have now been definitely arranged, and the distinguished journalist will leave England for the Antipodes in the spring of 1835. He is much bantered by confreres as to his deficiency in elocution ; and, with the pluck that always characterises him, he has consented to take lessons from an intimate friend in the mysteries of the Demosthenic art. His style will be that of Irving in The Bells. Rev. Samuel Earnshaw of Sheffield, says that he was once marrying a couple when he said to the man: “ Say after me, ‘ With my body I thee worship.’ ” The man innocently asked“ Must I kneel down to her.” Neighbours are very considerate in Norway When a baby is born a placard is nailed up on the door informing the community of the fact, (Those who wish to move out of the vicinity are thus enabled to do so in good “ This is horrible,” was the head-line an editor wrote to go over an account of the defeat of the local base-ball club. But the straw-headed printer got things mixed, and put the head-line over a poem by a prominent poet, and the poet wouldn’t believe that it was the printer’s fault, and somebody is going to get hurt.

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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 118, 29 April 1884, Page 3

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349

Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 118, 29 April 1884, Page 3

Untitled Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 118, 29 April 1884, Page 3

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