Estimate the cubic yard of gold at two millions sterling, which it is in round numbers, and all the gold in the world might, if melted into ingots, be contained in a cellar twenty-four feet square and sixteen feet high. All the boasted wealth already obtained from Australia and California would go into an iron safe, niue feet square and nine feet high, so small is the cube of yellow metal that has set populations on the march, and roused the whole world to action. It is a bad sisjn to see a man with his hat off at midnight, explaining a new theory to a lamp-post. A traveller in Pennsylvania asked the landlord if they had any cases of sunstroke in that town. " No, sir," said the landlord, "if a man gets drunk here, we say he is drunk, and never call it by any other name."
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Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 588, 2 December 1869, Page 2
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148Untitled Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 588, 2 December 1869, Page 2
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