Sticking the Tuke. —A precentor in one of tie kirks of Scotland by mistake commenced to sing a different psalm from that given by the minister, the result being that by the time the end of the second line was reached, matters had come to a dead-lock between him and the congregation. Instead of fainting, as he might have been expectedto do, the precentor kept quite cool, preserving his presence of mind under the trying circumstances; and, as the simplest way of getting out of the difficulty, he turned round to the minister, and made the approprite remark, " Go on with your sermon; the thing's stickit!" A submarine telegraph, cable has successfully laid between Leghorn and the island of Corsica. A husband can readily foot the bills of a wife who is cot ashamed to. be seen , faotisg his stoefcinga,
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Southland Times, Volume VII, Issue 518, 13 July 1866, Page 3
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