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Waimate Daily Advertiser, Volume III, Issue 117, 19 October 1901, Page 3

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Doubled** "So_ Featherweight resigned from the Bohemians became ho didn’t like to meat his tailor at the club ? Bather uppish, wasn't it ?" ' Grayson—" .No, not uppish ; but ho hated to be dupned at' dinner." Milkman—" Tell your mother she'll ’ave to pay ready money for milk in futur’’ 1 ain’t a-goiu’ to chalk up any more” Boy— •* Wot are yet a-goin’ to use ioat d, Mr Hitnpson!" •• S„ they blackballed Ooulking at the Cub because of that scandal about cheating at, cards, I suppose ?” ‘•No, not that exiotiy { somebody found out that he u-.ed. to work for a living." There is always a sort of freemasonry among V men of . learning.” They k. ow better than ot her people do how much there is that they auo’t know. ’ “ What is, oy the who e, the favourite stud v at your college f” Well, football i-> very popular, but I prefer tennis, beCStK-o it u mots intelleo* tual.”

Landlady - "Will you havs some jam roll, Mr Wa >g I” Mr Wagg—" Y«*, ma’uiu, and some ja n alsI.*, 1 .*, pieftae " ; " Did Mi* Sower have her photograph taken yesterday “Yes." " Good likeness*? . . " She refused,to take it of the photo* graphs” *• Then it must luve been something like her.’*

Thera is a school'district in B#no County,‘Kansas, in wh>ch there are a sChoolhouse and a ti-aobor, but not a solitary pupil.,iMiss Mery Scroggins, the teacher, operU school every morning, and holds herself in readiness to instruct any children who may come, but she is the sole ocoupant of the building. There are plenty of children in the district, but lley ate «f Catholic parentage, and attend a parochial scnool. A good story is being told of three ■ boys who had done- well--at ■ school, and had been rewarded ’by their > parents for their industry. 'They'were describing their rpwardßio tacb other.: One had had book, dedicttedto *• a. good eoboolboy." Another had received a mug*beating hi* naiflh in big rad letters. Twthird Boorned sttor< paltry grfw f‘ My father,’! .he said proudly, *'■ has ojVen me-' a* sifter spoon with u Hotel