A Connecticut editor, having got into controversy with a contemporary, congratules himself that his head was safe from a " donkey's heels." His contemporary astutely inferred from this that he was unable " to make both ends meet." Professor Voghfc has recorded an instance in which the fore part of a mole cricket, which had been cut in half, devoured portions of its severed half. The professor suggests that the self* cannibalism was prompted by a sense of emptiness in the ventral region. That's it. — Mistress — " Why, Mary, what's that you've got on ?" Mary — "What is it? A Dolly Varden, of course." Mistress—" You with a Dolly Varden! Why I shouldn't think of wearing such a thing." Mary — " P'raps not, nrimj it ain't everybody they becomes." '
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Southland Times, Issue 1749, 3 June 1873, Page 3
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124Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Southland Times, Issue 1749, 3 June 1873, Page 3
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