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Evening Star, Issue 3194, 16 May 1873, Page 3

Short Commons,—Little M.P.’s,— Punch.

A Nashville negro, applying to the recorder for a marriage license, and learning that it would coat him 10dol., left the room sadly, remarking, Dat’s a mighty squar price, boss,” A Southern contemporary is of opinion that a sound flogging would be a mild malady for the folly of pointing a gun at any one in fun.” Daniel Drew can lose three million dollars’ worth of his greenbacks and nt feel it; but the loss of five dollars’ worth of his religion would probably bankrupt him. A Buffalo paper announces that by the recent burning of an ipo-hqqae there 20,000 tons of joe were “ reduced to ashes.” Tbpcs “ does ” a big grape in q late" (ague. It is said to measure 4J inches in circumference, and to bo nearly an ounce in wciehfc,

Professor Klelzinsky, of Vienna, is reported to have microscopically detected epithelial cells and pus-globules adhering to the bodies of flies which had lit on small-pox patients, thus justifying the belief that these insects convey infection.