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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXIV, Issue 9662, 21 October 1882, Page 3

A Ventriloquist's Jokk.— lTi-cd M'Cabc, the ventriloquist, was a great joker. Some years ago^ho was'onthe Mississippi, onboard one of tlio steamboats, and making an ac- ; quaintancc "with tlic engineer, he "was allowed the freedom of the engine-room. He sat do'.vn in a corner, and, drawing his hal over his eves, seemed lost in reverie. In a few minutes a certain part of the machinery began to squeak. The engineer oiled it and -went tibont his business. In another few ; minutes the squeaking was again heard, and the engineer rushed over, oil-can in hand, to ' give the offending spindle another lubricating. Again he rushed to his post., and again the spindle began squeaking louder than ever. ' " Jupiter," he yelled, " the darned tiling's I bewitched." Blore oil was administered, but ! the engineer began to smell a rat. Pretty : soon the spindle squeaked again, and slipping ■ up behind M'Cabe, the engineer poured half 3 a pint of oil down the joker's back. "I L 1 guess that 'ere spindle won't squeak ugain." 3 And it didn't. Tjie highest tribute to the genius of any , medicine is the fact that the profession, whe are antipodal to everything that is not embraced within the range of their pro- " seriptions, lend to it their unqualified op- " proval, by strongly recommending it. This > the faculity have done to Udolph Wolfe's o SoniEDAM Ahomatic Schnapps, by nol i, only testifying to its merits, but even ore i, I scribing it in many known and recofdec 6 !■ casqs.— A»\x>