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From: "Mary Heaphy" <>
Subject: [IRL-TIP] Clonmel Chronicle June 21st 1865.
Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 13:39:15 +0100

Clonmel Chronicle June 21st 1865.

Extracts of Everything.

A Lady, condemning the wearing of moustaches, declared, "It is one of the
fashions I set my face against".



One of the latest inventions for which a patent has lately been taken out is
the shaking of carpets by steam.



"Todays Times", said a boy selling papers last Saturday on the South-Western
line; upon which a passenger, attempting a witticism, cried out, "Whats the
use of to-days paper". I'll give you a shilling for tomorrow's paper, and
the boy immediately handed him "The Sunday Times". The passenger refused to
give him more than sixpence, but his fellow traveller made him keep his
word, and he gave the sharp-witted boy the shilling.



True to a hair.; A somewhat juvenile dandy said to a fair partner at a Ball.
"Don't you think Miss, my moustachios are becoming". To which she replied,
"Well, Sir, they may be coming, but they have not yet arrived.



Mary

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