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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2478, 28 February 1881, Page 4

Oar American cousins have truly a most eccentric way of transacting business sometimes, as will be seen by the following A few days ago a cute Yankee called in at a photographer’s shop. Seeing a large picture hanging up, he inquisitively asked; ‘ What’s that ’ere pictur “ That’s a picture of the sun,replied the photographer. “ What! this ’eres the sun ! Um-~ lemmee see. What distance is it from the earth ?” The astonished photographer informed him —“ 92,000,000 miles.” “Ah is it so—that’s curious. Look here, boss, I want to take my brother’s photo.” “ Veiy good,” said the photographer, “ let me see him.’, “ You can’t,” says Jonathan, “he is in Melbourne,” “ Oh, then it will be impossible for mo to take him,” “ Now look here, boss ; how is it you can take the sun, which is 92,000,000 of miles away, and yet you can’t take my brother who is only 10,000 miles off I Good mornin’.” “ Is your programme full, Miss Beetlecrusher ?” asked a young man of a South London damsel, who had just struggled out of tne refreshment-room with disappointment in her eye and an “ order of dances” in her hand. “Programme full ?” said she. “ 1 hain’t had nothing but a piece of cake and a hice cream, an’ that don’t go far towards filling my programme, I can tell you.” gT O P THAT COUGH Dont’t Delay, How can you stop it ? Where is the remedy ? BONNINGTON’S PECTORAL OXYMEL OP CARRAGEEN, OE, IRISH MOSS, (Registered), Can produce more evidence of real meri than any other article for the purpose. Wholesale Agents : KEMPTHORNB, PROSSER, & CO., Dunedin.