Operators in wool—Moths. According to the (lovernment Insurance tables tho measure of a half-caste's life is 45 years. In no case will the department insure a half-caste for more than 15 years, and only then when the period named is terminable within the forty-fifth year._ UtKNTl.kmkn of the jury,' said an Irish lawyer, ' it will be for you to decide whether tho defendant shall bo allowed to comeinto Court with unblushing footsteps, with a cloak of hypocrisy in his mouth, and draw three bullocks out of my client's pockets with impunity.' Husband (irascibly)—' We don t need that rug any more than a cat needs two tails. How often 'have 1 told you, my dear, not to buy anything because it is cheap? Wife (with the air of one who has pot the better of the argument)-'lt wasn't cheap, my love. It cost forty dollars.' A coKKicsi'O.NDKNT sends the following to a medical contemporary :—'An old man, nearly octogenarian, who had been in bed for twenty-seven years, being a harmless monomaniac, having the delusion that His Satanic Majesty always stood at his door to prevent him from going out, suddenly one morning, early in June, took it into his head that the Devil was gone, whereupon he got out of bed, and with nothing on but his shirt, walked down to the quay (nearly a quarter of a mile) and jumped over. Having been a good swimmer in his early days, he struck out, and although a boat put off from a vessel, he swam ashore. Nobody knowing him, he was taken to a publichouse, and a medical man was sent for. He was taken home, where he remained two or throe days in bed, all the better for his dip. He has been to church, and is now about to resume his former calling, that of a preacher.'
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Waikato Times, Volume XXVIII, Issue 2286, 5 March 1887, Page 1 (Supplement)
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