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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 925, 15 November 1881, Page 1 (Supplement)

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a Boss in?" he asked, as be threw his . •'$ ;''.leg:o»er the managing tnlitor's table,— f |;i , ,«Wtdt do you wantf—" |) 0 y OU '>.4.'),,,-.'..obtain divorces without publicity l" • , • > "No, I flout," replied tk maii'tiging 'i&. editor,---"Pvrlmps I'm mistaken in tliV place," lie muttered looking round; "can . I get an oyster stew well done and tw,< plates of butter, here?"—"No, vou cant This is a newspaper office."—" Oh, oh] so it is. Just mix me an absinthe cocktail with a double squirt of lemon." -"Clear out with you! You've got in the wrong place. Go across the street. —" Can't I get a nights lodging here?"—" No, you can't,"—" Lend me ft bung-starter till the day after tomorrow.?"—" I tell you this is a news- ; papar office. We don't keep such tiling Get along with you" Got any Becond hand glass eyes f " Look here you," said the editor, rising in wrath you make lor that door now quick!" —"Want to rent that big room in there for a walking match ?" asked the atranger, backing out.—"No, I don't, Leave flow. Move I"—"I'll match you for drinks."—"Get! Spry now. Out with you." The stranger tumbled down stairs and approached the cashier ■ "Is the boss's word good?" he asked, - ' "Certainly" replied the financial man, ■ 1 "I don't understand it," mused the stranger sadly; ''here your paper says 'divorces procured without publicity' and 'board cheap' and 'finest of liquors always on hand' and 'glass eyes perfectly natural, 1 and 'parlour games to suit all ages' and when I went up to buy some of 'em the boss claimed he was all out of stock. Is he reliable?" "He certainly is reliable. "Then your paper is ad— liar" proclaimed the exasperated stranger "I thought so when you put me down foi being locked up for drunk and disorderly and now T know it," And the misled citizen went round to a job-office and subscribed for a circus showbill to rim tho balance of the year.

Tho Board of Health of Cleveland, Ohio, has established a system of inspection of irregular houses and registry of their inmates,

Mustapha Bey, the ruler of Tunis, spent during his stay in Faris £28,000. He carried home 200 gold watches and 10,000 pocket knives.

An effort is to be made in Indiana (U.S.) to put a stop to the wholesale destruction of fish by the use of dynamite cartridges and other explosives.

There is no law protecting children employed in manufactories in Turkey, Russia, and Belgium. In Russia children but six years of age work as long as 12 hours a day.

The population to the square mile of European counties is—Belgium, 4G9 ;- England and Wales, 389; Italy. 588; Germany, 201; Holland, 185; France, 180; Switzerland, 175; Austria, 175 Ireland, 169.

Midhat Pasha's place of banishment, it is said, is considered by the Arabs as the most ancient place in the' world. They say it is the place to which Adam and Eve fled after their expulsion from Paradise, and lives tomb is shown to pilgrims. A colored preacher at Louisville, Kentucky, recently found in hisohurch a daughterfrom whom he was separated »t the auction block twenty years ago. He was legally married to another woman after becoming a freed man, and now learns that his first wife is also living.

No physician holding a diploma from an American college can practice medicine in Ontario,

In Denmark a diet of bread and water for a month was formerly considered eqivalcnt to a punishment of death.

_ A farmer at Quebec, on August 31, lit a fire under a jibbing horse, The horse refused to move, and was burned to death.

The greatest length of the United States, from east to west, is 2800 miles; greatest breadth, from north to Bouth, 1600 miles; average breadth, 1200 miles.

A bank in Nashville, Tennessee, Las obtained £2OB worth of pennies from the mint, "with the intention of securing their introduction generally into trade in that city, There were 10,654 births in Boston In 1880, The marriages in the same time numbered 8973, and the deaths 8612, no less than 2002 of the latter being infants under one year of age. A Berlin manufacturer is laboring under the impression that he is a god, and has been travelling two million million miles on the comet for the purpose of dealing out punishment to the world,

The ninth triennial conference of Young Men's Christian Associations of all lands met in London, July 30ih. About 500 delegates representing nearly 3,000 associations, attended, ■One of the most important addresses was made by the Earl of Shaftesbury, who was the first President of an association of this hind.

A negro woman who killed two children near "Washington, is vitiUe to give any motive for the crime, si d none can be conceived, tie seems quite sane, "Tlic tkvil pii it in my head," she fays, "and 1 <cvldn't ■ help it. I saw them running nn d ■ the yard, ar.d the drvil n.Dclt' n.( jcund them with a iMi."

. The three hundred and thirty first' anniveisavy of (he Frm-h chu-li worshipping in the ciypt of (taterImry Cnthfdrftl ]mg just Wn celd i »t ( <l. Thin potion cf the crypt if. vji r-r"? the property of the (Iweiidftitls of flic French PrcMffits-nt r< ivj rrf ivh ful to Englswl to esni];c pi m ml in -. The prmrijiri] ]oiticn cf Ik (Vim, 'ffiusiui vhkli i iis -; r j.. ; , f,., • : for feme: time Hue f--rth'-i j.- ihniEllllfllchlJ'tf., it,, ],ft (J; ,i'i r j, tv.! on Augiifit ]O, U i( , )ir((Ut , f !Ui ; that cmatiy, w j-: r ,], [Japanese papers, lepiesent trade (hue as in a most wfatiffadety tm^irr, • and state thai many of ik'Jfcj.i-i.ue merchants are leaving.'