VARIETIES.
The old Duke of Wellington proposed to the Baroness Burdctt-Coutts when she was a girl of tender years, but she wouldn’t listen to him. Then the Bishop of London tried without success. Aftciwards, when she was about forty, a WykolV, ot Philadelphia, tried Ids hand, and, as lie was a clever American, nearly succeeded, but the Baroness, just a little too soon, found that be bad a liaison with a notorious actress. The baroness has £300,000 a year. Tea contains tannic acid, which combines with milk and forms leather. And now we know what makes old maids so tough.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2402, 27 November 1880, Page 3
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100VARIETIES. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2402, 27 November 1880, Page 3
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