An old Illinois sinner in the calaboose at Cairo*brought about his release by making his cell vocal night and day with hymns, and declaring he had preached the gospel forty years. Half an hour after he was in a levee saloon, swearing that he was " half hoss and half alligator, and that be could outrun, throw down, and whip any man of his age and inches in the State of Ealinoy Sir William 8., being at a parish meeting, made some proposals which wore objected to by a farmer. Highly em-aged," Sir," says he to the farmer, "do you know, sir, that I have been at two universities, and two colleges in each university?" " Well, sir," said the farmer, (i what of that 1 I had a calf that sucked two cows, and the observation I made was, the more he sucked the greater calf he grew. 1 '
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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 170, 11 May 1871, Page 6
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