Friend: One of your clerks tells me that you raised his salary and told him to get married under penalty of discharge. British Man: Yes. [ d,, th-it to all my clerk* when they gel; jld enough to marry. .1 don't want any of your independent, conceited men .about my place!. "Oh, my friends, there are some spectacles that one never forgets!" e.v----i claimed the lecturer, after describing graphically a volcano in eruption. •' I'd I like to know where they sells them,' 1 said 'an old lady in the audience, who is constantly mislaying her glasses. '"Why is the income-tax the most o innoxious tax ever paid or levied V' The conundrum is a SholHeld gentleman'*, ! and so is the answer. '• Uecause all who pay it are sorry they have (o do so, ! and those who have not to pay it arc sorry they don't."
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 258, 24 October 1908, Page 3
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144Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 258, 24 October 1908, Page 3
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