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Evening Star, Issue 3091, 15 January 1873, Page 3

A country newspaper, recording the running down of a cow on the railway, said it was “cut into calves.” An astonished naturalist waited on the editor for what the auctioneers call “further information,” and received it in the following form ; “ Erratum —for calves read halves.”

Branes, by Josh Billink —How enny body knows that they do the thinkin’, or arc the interpreters ov thought, u more than 1 lean tell ; and for what I kno. this theory may be one ov those remark aide discoverys ov man which aint so. these subjeeks are tew mutch for a man ov mi learning tew lift. —His critic says, “ Try your capacity, Josh, at a quarter of an ounce weight, or begin first with half the quantity. Th eOedony Advertiser relates the fnllowing “ A singular coincidence is related in connection with the supposed suicide of the man O’Neill. It is stated that Mr Martin, who was among the first to report to the police that the man had been found with his throat cut, Was in a sale-room in t 'Wii when a featherbed was exposed for sale. Heremarked to a bystander that he knew whom the bed belonged to; that it was the property of O’Neill, and that the owner would neiier die a natural death. Aa the circumstances show, his prediction has heen tub filled,”