A STORY HE DIDN'T BELIEVE.
"Now, there's a story I don't belie vo," said the oolonel, aa he laid aside a newspaper. " What story is that, colonel? aslrtd the erudite and industrious assistant. ♦'Why, that paper says Cotopaxi can sometimes be heard 500 miles." 41 Don't you believe it P" "Of ooune I don't believe it. I'll bet there is not a singer in the world than oan be heard half that far." "But Cotopaxi is a volcano, colonel." "Init ? I thought it woo one of those Italian fellows that go about with Patti !"
It is estimated that at least £600,000 per annum are expended in San Francisco for ship supplies and by the officers and crewa of vessel* in their visits ashore. It is said that there are 100,000,000 of acres of land on the Pacific coast of the United States especially adapted to the culture of wheat, which is practically untouched,
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2107, 9 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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153A STORY HE DIDN'T BELIEVE. Waikato Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2107, 9 January 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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