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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 669, 9 June 1870, Page 3

In our prosperity real friends are wont to visit us when invited, but in adversity they come of their own accord. If a girl were to fall into the water, and were unable to sink, why would she partly change her sex ?—Because she should be a boy (buoyant) girl. A tax-gatherer was observed the other evening all alone in a corner, moody, meditative, and frowning. His work was over for the day, but from force of habit (coming from being always at the receipt of custom) he was collecting himself. A learned lady, the other evening, astonished the company by asking for " the loan of a diminutive argentine truneative coin, convex at its summit, and semiperforated with symmetrical indentations." She wanted a thimble. Kansas by law, offers to anyone planting and successfully growing for three years an acre or more of forest trees, or half a mile or more of forest trees along any highway, a bounty annually for twenty-five years of 2 dols per acre or half-mile.