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Wairarapa Standard, Volume I, Issue 50, 16 December 1867, Page 3

Something like Whisht. — An eminent merchant in Dublin announces that he has “still on hand a small quantity of the whisky which was drunk by George IV when in Dublin.” Jack, newly off a voyage, and elevated with grog is a queer animal. One of this class was a passenger lately in a railway carriage, between Greenock and Port Glagsow, in which was a clergyman. Jack was not at all scrupulous in his phraseology, and the clergyman i; in a solemn tone, said the young man was oh the road to the devil. “Well, it don’t nfatter much,” said Jack, “ for I’ve got a return "ticket." ■" _ ~T jt,x.Any, who was very modest and siihmissive befote marriage, was observed by a friend to use her. tongue pretty freely after Wards. “ There was a time when I almost imagined she had none.”-—“ Yes,” said the husband, with a sigh, “ but it,s very long since.” The death of a Mormonbishopis thus announced: “He was thirt^seven- years old, and leaves an interesting family of eleven wives; forty-seven small ebudreh to mourn his Tdgftth."t : ‘ ' What brought' you ita-prison my coloured friend ? “Two constahes,. sab, “ Yes’but I mean, had intemperance,any thing'to do with ,it ? Yes, sab, dey was hofe oT em drunk."