Captain," said an old lady, as a ship was Hearing port in stormy weather, " have you an almanack on hoard ?" " No, madam,replied the captain, "Well', then, said the old lady, witli a resigned air, "I suppose we shall have to take the weather as it comes." Oh, wonderful son!"—A true story is told of the late Charles Mathews, that, personating an eccentric old gentleman, a family friend, he drank tea with his mother without her finding out tho cheat. The following is rather equivocal: Maria Brown, wife of Timothy Brown, aged eighty years. She lived with her husband fifty-nine years, and died in the confident hope of a better life."
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 153, 7 May 1879, Page 3
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