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Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 2021, 20 June 1885, Page 6 (Supplement)

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Mr, Gladstone contemplates a trip to Berlin partly for pleasure, bat principally to commit the famed surgeons of the German capital. Should they deem the operation not attended with too great danger, it is bis intention to have the decayed stump of his brain ox. tracted.

A CnitißTiu.s-DAY dinner young man, A hat-in-the-ball young man, A turkey-leg eater find cranberry sweetener, Very good feeding young man. A full-as-a-tick young man, A sad and a nick young man, A eooktkil to qualify, soda to mollify, Very aweet-headod young man.

Ix was the roller-skating rink. First travelling phrenologist : Can't you lend me a dollar ? Second travelling phrenologist : My gracious I is that you ? Why, you look all broken ap. Been sick ? First travelling phrenologist : No, bat I've had bad luck. Seoond travelling phrenologist : I should Bay. Never saw you looking so seedy. Couldn't you attract an audience at your last town ? First travelling phrenologist : Yes, I had a big audience, and during the lecture tried to real character by tho bumps as uaual, but made so many terrible blunders that tho polioo made me give them their money back, and thon they mobbed me. Second travelling phrenologist: Made blunders! I can't understand that. You never failed to recognise bumps before. What could have been the matter ? First travelling phrenologist ; It seems tho town had a new roller-skating rink, and everybody developed new bumps.

A cux'K made of hardened bread is on exhibition at Milan. It is the work of a prisoner, who, being too poor to buy mtteritl for the work, saved his bread, which he hardened in a mineral Holution, for his clock.— Ex. Now he mujht make one of decayed cheese, that wonld ran. Still it mite be tedious to Bit in hii oell and watoh the hours orawl away.

" I don't see," observed Mrs. Grap, " why, when they are giving away all them officer, they don't let women hold something." " They would, my dear, but tho women won't do it," answered her husband. " Well, I should like to know, John Orapp,. what they'll let them hold 7" He took his hat, looked to see that the hall door was open, and in trembling accents murmured — " Your tongue, my dear."

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