The operatives of South Lancashire contributed iu small amounts the sum of L 3,082 towards the Derby memorial, which has been handed over to the convocation of the University of Oxford for Derby scholarships there. A traveller was lately boasting of the luxury of arriving late, after a hard day’s journey, to partake of the enjoyment of a wellcut ham and the left log of a goose. ‘ Pray, sir,” said a gentleman, what is the peculiar luxury of a left leg?” “ Sir,” said the traveller, “to conceive its luxury, you must conceive that it is the only log that happens to be left,”
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Evening Star, Issue 3128, 27 February 1873, Page 2
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103Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Evening Star, Issue 3128, 27 February 1873, Page 2
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