Complijefntaby. — An erratic poetical genius about town was highly delighted the other day by the editor's telling him he resembled Poe, the author of the tC Raven." _" Do you really think so ?" asked the moonstruck sonnetteer in an ecstac^ —"pray in what re3pect ?" '• Why, yon wear your shirt collar upside down, and get tipsi on gin and water !" The. Sultan of Turkey has had a great cock fight in which the birds were named after the ; great men of Europe. Azis, a Turk, Tanquished Napoleon, to the Sultan's iTast delight, and ho decorated the bird with a high OTdw of honor ©A«UBt§di-?rith diajaoaajt
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Southland Times, Issue 730, 30 September 1867, Page 2
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