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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 4, Issue 1080, 22 May 1882, Page 3

A pretty school girl in Virginnia would not, aB a witness, he confused by a lawyer. When lie had exhausted himsolf she sweetly said: "Don't you want to ask me some more 1" A Syracuse man made a bet of. 50 dollars that he could find six women in that city who would marry him, and he won it. Each ono blushed, said it was so unexpected, but-ahem-well, take .me, darling. ' ■ t[ One must either grow old or die,' says George Eliot. But the theatrical star of of the feminine gender doesn't agree with her. Some of them havn't grown a day older siuce 1860 and they still live, A keen-observer gays that women 'who goshopfng in the eager search for bargains show strength of muscle and an indifference to fatigue that renders the appellation of the " gentler sex" a parody,' Labouchoro, of London Truth, says lie 1 does not believe that there is one plain woman in the world who would not surrender every gift with which sho has been endowed in order to bo the most L beautiful of hor sex.' B|Kho number of papers and periodicals BBjftlisheo' during 1880 within the circumference ot the the terrestrial globe was' 84,274 and their combined circulation, roughly estimated, amounted to 10,502,000,000, or a little more than six copies per head of the world's population. Europe lias 19,557 dailies, weeklies, and monthlies; North America, 12,400; Asia » 775; Australasia, G69; South America, '699; and Africa, 132' periodicals of all sorts. No less than 16,500 of tho above publications are printed in English, nearly 800, in German, about 4000 in <■■ French, and nearly IGOOin Spanish. .Out of the entire numbers 4020 are daily papers and 18,272 publications appear from once to three times a week.