The rage of curiosity to see notorious crimhuls confined in the New York Tombs is said to have become almost epidemical of late days. Even ladies and gentlemen from the most aristocratic quarters of the city come driving down to the Egyptian building in their carriages and sleighs. A man named Hog who had been found guilty of murder, laid claim to some relationship) with the judge about to sentence him, whoso name was Bacon. “I think you arc mistaken,” blandly responded the judge. “Hog must bo hung before it can be good Bacon.” Two Australian witnesses in the Tichbournc ease went Heme by the Suez mail, for the purpose of giving evidence for the Crown. They are Mr, and Mis. Maealister, of Sale, Gipps Laud, who, it is understood, will bo able to give testimony regarding the identity ;of Arthur Orton, '1 hey will receive 1,000/., and 3/. per day during their stay in England. A lady of title informed BufTolr that she knew a blackbird who looked at the barometer every morning, and would not go out if it pointed to wet. An anecdote told by a German naturalist, of a beaver, is no less wonderful tharr the above ; he declares that he saw a beaver weeping over tire crown of an old hat. Soon another beaver approached it, and she cried more piteously ban the first ; then a number of young beavers, attracted by their sobs, came running up, and they all cried too. Ho accounts for this by saying that the hat being made of beaver, the animals bad evidently recognised in it the skin of one of their own kindred. “'Who can say,” he asks, “ whether this very hat was not to them the sad remains of an affectionate son—the ordy remembrance of a favorite brother ?” He. Brtgiix’s PnosnroDTXE- Multitudes of people are hopelessly suffering from Debility, Nervous and Liver Complaints, Depression of Spirits, Delusions, Unfitness for Business or Study, Failure of Hearing, Sight, and Memory, Lassitude, Want of Power, &0., whoso cases admit of a permanent cure by tbe new remedy—Plrosphodync (Ozouic Oxygen)— which at once allays all irritation and excitement, imparts new energy and life to tbe enfobled constitution, and rapidly euros every stage of these hitherto incurable and distressing maladies. Sold by all chemists and storekeepers throughout the Colonics from whom Pamphlets, containing testimonials, may be obtained. Caution.—Bo particular to ask for Dr. Bright’s Phosphcdyne, as imitations are abroad; and avoid purchasing single bottles, the genuine article being sold, in cases only.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 582, 13 June 1873, Page 3
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420Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Dunstan Times, Issue 582, 13 June 1873, Page 3
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