Mrs Eekkabyte: "Why, John, how unsteady you are on your legs ; and, dear me, you've lost your hat—why, I declare you're " Mr Eekkabyte, " No, m'dear, 's impossible ; I've taken - nothing but pep'inint all the evening.' [Note. —A recent analysis by Mr Newberry, declares peppermint to contain nearly 50 per cent, alcohol.] —" Melbourne Punch." A disconsolate citizen of New Orleans puts the following question to one of the papers published there:— " Mr Edytur—That what I wish to ask you is whether strychnine, what the police to dogß, won't pizen the human being after passengers has been fried ? Please put it in the paper how this is, for if fried strychnine is pizen, I go again sassengers. Tours, till pizened." Over two hundred women are now working farms on their own account in the States of lowa and Indiana. This is official.
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Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 852, 19 August 1871, Page 2
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140Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 852, 19 August 1871, Page 2
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