A father remonstrated with his son, an Oxford undergraduate, for wasting his time in writing for local papers, and cited Dr. •Johnson as saying that a man who wrote except for money is a fool. The son wrote back, “• I shall follow Johnson’s advice, and write for money. Please send me twenty.” Hunger is the best sauce; hence street-boys arc generally saucy. Many mon; many minds ; but one woman frequently has more than all of them. They who dance leave the host to pay the fiddler. What cannot be cured supports the doctors. A fair exchange would ruin the stock-market. There’s many a smoke with no tobacco. A remarkable accident occurred at the gasworks at Newport, Isle of Wight. From some unexplained cause the gasometer collapsed, and the whole of the contents 80,000 feet of gas, escaped.
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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 143, 29 May 1884, Page 2
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137Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 Poverty Bay Standard, Volume I, Issue 143, 29 May 1884, Page 2
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