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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 2, Issue 242, 19 August 1879, Page 2

The new episcopal residence for Bishop Hadfield has been completed at a coat of £3200. Broken Heart is the romantic name of a railway station in Minnesota. Touching as the title is, however, all sensational persons must acknow ledge that Fried Liver, a mining villiage in Arizona, is still more tender. Curious Incident at a Temperance Meeting.—At a public temperance meeting held in Nantwich in conection with the anniversary of the Total Abstinence Society, one of the local ministers started the hymn " Hold the Fort" in order to beguile the time until the committee and deputation arrived, The first verse was sung by the audience, when the gentlemen who were to speak and their friends, with the Mayor of Chester at their head, emerged from the ante-room, Their appearance was hailed with considerable applause, and as they ascended the platform the melody, to the amusement of many, was taken up with renewed energy at the lines, " See the mighty host advancing, Satan leading on." Gas and "Brass."- A young man from the country went to have a tooth stopped. The dentist adpised ,'him to have the tooth taken out, and assured him that he would feel on pain if he inhale laughing-gas. "But what is the effect of the gas, f asked the youth, "It simply makes you totally insensible." answered the dentist; you don't 'known anything that take place." The rustic assented, but just previous to the gas being administered he put his hand jbto his pocket and pulled out his moi|y. "Oh, don't trouble about thafc'VwV said the dentist, thinging that he w's going to be paid his fee. "Not at all remarked the patient; "I was simply going to see he much I had before the cas tooke fleet."