We. to-day, had an amusing bit. of nationality from the eng'inecr. On asking why it was that the chief engineer of almost all the fino steamers afloat were Scotchmen, he answered — " Weel, ye see, tlie Erish are just quite oot o' tho question ; and as for the English, somehoo or ither it's no in them." A CAUTiors Widow. — As a clergyman was burvin^ a corpse, a woman came and touehel liim by the "sleeve tn tlie middle of the service, and said, "Sir, I must speak to you immediately." " Well, what is tho matter ? " " Why, sir, you are burying a man who died ef the small-pox near my poor husband, who never had it." : The wonderful new light from magnesium wire I has been discovered and patented. It is not dear, I but the brilliancy is astonishing.
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Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 51, 27 September 1864, Page 3
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