An editor and his wife were waiking out in the bright moonlight one evening. Like all editors' wives, she was of an exceedingly poetic nature, and said to her mate — " Notice that moon j how bright, and culm and beautiful!"— "Couldn't think of noticing it," returned the editor, " for anything less tnan the usual rates — a dollar and fifty cents for twelve lines." Jokes, having taken to the study : of anthropo logy, has come to the conclusion that the differ euce between the two sexes may be stated thus : — A man gives two shillings lor an eighteenpenny tiling he wants, wad a woman gives eighieenpenoe for » two-shiUing thing phe does, not want.
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Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 210, 31 January 1866, Page 2
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112Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 210, 31 January 1866, Page 2
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