A Strange Bed.
The police at Buda Pesth the other night dispersed an encampment of sixteen persona who had been driven from their homes by the cholera and who, having no shelter, had established themselves under canvas near the Danube. In the course af their researches after other vagrants the police made the astonishing discovery that thirty persons of both eexes were lying undressed in a dirty but warm stream of water that flowed out of a mill. The water was shallow, and the poor creatures had gone into it for warmth.
A fashion journal says there is a knack in putting on gloves. Come to think of it, that's so. You have to s;et your hand in, as it were. A rich man one day asked a man of wife what sort of a thing opulence was. "It is a thiug," replied the philosopher, " which cau (rive a rascal the advantage over an booeot man, 1 '
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Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 8
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157A Strange Bed. Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 192, 19 February 1887, Page 8
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