Page 3 Advertisements Column 1

Evening Star, Issue 3478, 16 April 1874, Page 3

VW ? frin ? es °n the patent of the Philadelphia * Ledger,’ and says Bring out the crape and toll the knell • bhe s dead—a lovely Lockport belle • * Her stomach failed away to get * With ninety oysters on a bet. A family on Pine street had an oyster supper Saturday evening, and borrowed a very handsome Bible to set off their centre-table. A Pennsylvania preacher, while holding sexvices recently, gave thanks in a fervent prayer for the prosperous condition of their crops, excepting, 0 Lord, the corn, which is backand th© pats, which are mighty thin in spots. it is pleasant to see things put strongly and pomtedly. Some one asked Colonel Howard, of Georgia lately, if he thought that a certain xtadical in that State would steal “ Steal!” responded the colonel, ‘‘why, if he were paralysed and ham-strung, I wouldn’t trust him by hnnseif m the middle of the Desert of Sahara ° f the Great Eastern I oteal! I should think ho would.” “Don’t a Quaker ever take off his hat to anyone mamma?’’ “No. my dear.” “If he don t take off his hat to a barber, how does he have his hair cut ? ” * The ‘Western Post’ relates that recently two youths (one of them an aboriginal) were fishing on the banks of the river, near Mudgee, when a man with a sheet over him stole behind them and waved his hands over their head without speaking. This sudden apparition (for the boys thought it a ghost) struck terror into them. The black boy ran for his life, .and laid himself in an adiacent cornfield; while his companion, who was almost paralysed with fear, screamed moat piteously for help. It suggested itself to a couple of men living in the neighborhood who heard these terrible shrieks, that some one was drowning, and on hastening to the spot, the truth was discovered, and the youth found in a most exhausted and terrified condition, utterly unable to speak from his voice < being paralysed by the violence of few ontonea.