Dead Language —A man who pretended to have seen a ghost, was asked what the ghost said to him. “ How should I understand.” replied the narrator, “ what he said? I am not skilled in any of the dead languages.” The Gum Tree. —The euca’yptua is no favourite in any part of Australia, but ip Algeria it is thought superior to any of the native denizen of the forest, and in America the medical men treat their fever patients with its leaves. The question, does getting drunk ever advance one’s happiness? would seem to lie put to rest by the Irishman who went courting when drunk and was asked what pleasure he fountain whisky ? “ Oh, Biddy, it’s a trateintireley to see two of your swate puriy faces instead of one.”
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Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 14, 23 October 1871, Page 2
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