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Wairarapa Standard, Volume II, Issue 59, 15 February 1868, Page 3

When black walnut or xnahoganycolouml furniture becomes discoloured or damaged, anyone may, at a very small cost, “ shine it up” like new. Provide a few pennyworths of burnt umber and Indian-red. For mahogany, colour mix-Indian-red with copal varnish till the right colour is secured; thin with benzine, and add a little boiled linseed oil if it dries faster than desirable. For black walnut colour mix both pigments in such proportions as necessary. In the old flush times a passenger on a river boat accosted a little negro boy with an inquiry usual atlhatday, “ Who do you belong to ?” “ Don’t know, sir,” answered the boy. “Why don’t you know?” “When I come abord I b’longs to Massa Sara White; but he went me last night on two little par, and de clerk of dis boat win me. l)en Sol Smiff he beat de clerk on a bluff, an’ he had me last; and so I carn’t tell, sir, who I b’longs to till de game close.” In 1851, Professor de Morgan went to see the Great Exhibition, and heard an organ played by a performer who seemed very desirous to exhibit one particular stop. “What do you thing of that stop!” I was asked. “That depends upon thi name of it,” said I. “Oh, what, can the name have to do with the sound ? ‘ Tha' which-we call a rose,’“The nairahas everything to do with it. If it be > flute stop, I think it very harsh; but i it be railway whistle stop, I think i very sweet.”