HUMOUES OF THE TELEGRAPH.
■ That was a witty, man who, being detained by a snow blockade, penned a . despatch which ran thus :'" My dear sir—l have eve y. motive for. visiting you, except a'locomotive."'' So was the other.who, under'similar' circum-' stances,,telegraphed to his firm in New York: " I shall not be in the office to-day, as 1 have riot got home yesterday yet." The following despatch created no little amusement in the office through which it passed :■'" Charlie and Julia met at S :'s yesterday, quarrelled and parted for ever ; met again this morning and parted to meet no more ; met again this evening and were married." ■ An old lady in a town of Massachusetts, vefure'd the gift of a load of wood from a tree struck by lightning, through fear that some of the '' fluid " might remain in the. wood, and cause disaster to her kitchen stove. A good story is told of a country woman who received a despatch plater than she exI pected : " It must have been delayed on the i road," she said ; " I know the wires are i busy to-day, for I heard them working as I I came along."—Detroit Iree Press.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 362, 12 March 1881, Page 3
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197HUMOUES OF THE TELEGRAPH. Temuka Leader, Issue 362, 12 March 1881, Page 3
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