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Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2656, 22 August 1871, Page 3

Mr James Bridge, of Queenstown, ha? shown the Wdkutip Mail a magnificent piece of quartz studded, with gold, which he alleges he discovered on a recent visit tp country. He declines to indicate the part of the country he found the specimens in. Proof Positive. —“Why do you oppose giving the ballot to woipen ?” asked a lady the other evening of a confirmed bachelor. “ Excuse me, madam,” replied he, “but I have not suflicient confidence in their capacity to conduct Government affairs.” What evidence of their mental inferiority to mankind can you advance?” queried the lady. “A simple fact is enough to satisfy my mind, and that is the frightful way in which they do up their back hair.” Pdval Families.—T. K. Beecher, of Elmira, said some unpleasant things about H. B. Smith, elected to Congress from Elmira district. Smith remarked to him that those statements were conspicuously inexact. Beecher straightened back in some excitement, ami exclaimed in de< ided tones, “Do you want to get up a. quarrel with the Beecher family?”—“No, sir,” said Smith; “but 1 want to know if you intend to get up a tight with the Smith family ?” An armistice was declared after that.