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Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2623, 4 May 1889, Page 1 (Supplement)

Con. —What was it that went to" the Arctic regions, stopped there, cams back again, and yet never went there?—A. watch. " .Doctob, I fancy, somehow, I've got a touch of the gout." "Fancy, my boy? H'm, if you had you wouldn't fancy—you d know." City man: "Is this locality healthy?" Countrymen: "Healthy? I nhould say we are healthy. We've got to be. There isn't a doctor within twenty miles." It is stated on trustworthy authority that the Kussian Government is preparing to introduce a tobacco monopoly throughout the Empire. Some days after the imperial railroad accident the Czarina wrote to mother of herself and her husband : " Wo still have big black and blue brut.:e3 all over us, but they are of no significance." Lord Sudeley finds his fruit and flower farm at Toddiugton, Gloucestershire, a very profitable speculation. It nx;.ends to 500 teres, :md there is a i• <r til.' produce, both from London and fn Chester,