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Tuapeka Times, Volume III, Issue 178, 6 July 1871, Page 7

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A moon-slruck Yankee has expressed liis over-burdened souL The pale mellow light of the ''soft silvery moon"" inspired him with poetic numbers. He is a genius. Hear him :—- "AH hail ! Thou glorious moon, Bright as a new tin pan ! Thou fairest, purest, roundest source Of bread and cheese to man. " Continue thou to roll and shine liike bands of waggon wheels, Tor dad and I are going out To try and catch some eels," A "personal" in the " Nevr York Herald " a short time since stated that if' ** John Smith, formerly of Philadelphia, -will call at No. 27, Blank-street, he will hear of something to his advantage." John called. There were about 250 of him, and lie has been calling at the rate of 47 per day ever since the " personal " appeared.

Fitz-Hugh Ludlow, in his narrative of travel in" The Heart of the Continent," tells of an -eccentric genius who improved •on the old yarn to the effect that " the weather would have been colder if the thermometer had been longer," by saying he had been where *' it -was so^ cold that the thermometer got down off Ahe nail." A lady who was acting as gratuitous Amanuensis in writing a letter for a lady friend last week, had the impudence to throw the letter in the fire when nearly finished, for the simple reason that the lady for whom she was writing modestly requested her to close the letter by saying, "Please excuse bad spelling and writing."