eason,
Coupled with the flow of tea.

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WALKER!

WOMEN--they so like matches of any sort--have taken to walking-matches.
A MRS. DUNN, of Hartshill, is walking 1,000 miles in 1,000 hours.
Another lady, one MISS MEW, of Cateaton Street, has also offered to do
the same distance in the same time with this additional difficulty--she
offers to walk in walnut-shells. Friends who know her best back her at
long odds.

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AN AUSTRALIAN CLIPPER.

Lighting accidentally on an Australian paper, we were struck by an
advertisement of a steamer for sale at Sydney, which really seems worth
attention. It professes to be so complete in every department that, if
it should happen to go to pieces, there are ample arrangements on board
for building another vessel as a substitute. There is "a double set of
machinery;" and, in fact, there appears to be everything in duplicate,
so that, if the vessel should unhappily go down, there is a counterpart
on board to supply the defect.

We do not quite understand the mode by which this desirable state of
things has been effected, but we have long ceased to be surprised at
anything, and should not be astonished if we were to see the
announcement of a ship with a double set of officers, and even a double
supply of passengers, so that if anything happened to either there would
be sufficient substitutes at hand. Considering that the announcement
comes from a land in which the gold mania is at its height, we cannot
wonder at the duplicity of the speculation, since double-dealing is
thought nothing remarkable where all are thinking of nothing but getting
gold.

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THE GOVERNESSES IN DESPAIR.

"DEAR MR. PUNCH,--The Chinese language will no doubt be added to the
already long list of acquirements necessary to a governess. The
advertisements are even now frightful to read. When, and how am I to
learn such words as will soon be expected of me? How am I to afford a
journey to China in order to get the right pronunciation? I am told
everything is to be taught through the medium of the Chinese: our only
chance seems to be to get the Pekin twang as fast as possible.

"Yours truly, JULIA."

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AN ABODE OF BLISS.

We wish we were on visiting terms with the family, the heads of which
have put into a Manchester contemporary the subjoined advert