The latest feminine fashion of wearing the front hair is known as the Skye terrier style. In Paris, the ladies are dressing their hair higher and higher, and ruffs are worn deeper, in consequence. Some ladies in Savons, New York, tried to break up a billiard room by going there in the erening with their I knitting and sewing. It did not work, I however, as their presence attracted an ! additional run of custom. Nothing. — A schoolmaster put the question to the scholars, " What is nothing ?" A pause ensued until *an urchin, whose proclivities for turning a penny were well-known among the schoolfellows, got up and replied, " It's when a man asks you to hold his horse and jist says thank ye." The answer has since earned some notoriety for the youngster.
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Southland Times, Issue 1773, 29 July 1873, Page 3
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