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Tuapeka Times, Volume VI, Issue 273, 24 April 1873, Page 7

FACETI/h. Still Life. — The whiskey-manufacturing business. j Effectual destruction of Weeds. — Marrying a widow. j Why is a blunt knife partially ground like j a young pickpocket ? — Because it is a little sharper. New Logic. — Taxation is said to bear equally on all classes, from the fact that it hardly presses on the rich, and presses hardly on the poor. An enterprising Western doubles his former receipts by advertising ice as " solidified protoxide of hydrogen." Still at it.— The soul of General Food, C.S.A., is unsated with the carnage of the war. He now sells pills in Georgia. — San Francisco "News Letter." There is a man in Kent who is so fond of money that it is said that, after paying a man a bill, he walks home with him, so as to be near the money as long as possible. A man who bought a thousand Havana cigars recently, on being asked what he was carrying, replied that they were tickets to a course of lectures to be given by his wife. The Pope is hard upon the marriage state. He remarked on hearing that Father Hyacinthe was married, "The saints be praised, the renegade has taken his punishment into his own hands. The ways of Providence are inscrutable !" A Boston paper relates that thirty-seven • enthusiastic members of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals made one horse draw them last week to a concert it aid of the association at Salem."

The San Francisco " News Letter" writes of one of its contemporaries : — The joyful rumor current on Tuesday last that twentyseven members of the " Alta " staff had been killed was followed by abitterdisappointment the following day. It appears to have had its foundation in the fact that an employe of the establishment had shot that number of ducks, upon which one of the " smarties " who infest Tthis town remarked that he "saw twenty-seven dead ducks shot at the ' Alta " office." This stupid observation was interpeted by bystanders in the sense inspired "by their wishes and in an incredibly short a very general joy had spread throughout the city. It is heartless thus to trifle with the best emotions of our sanguine and imperfect natures,