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Evening Star, Issue 3637, 19 October 1874, Page 3

,When a Western meyibcr of Congrecs re- ! cently alluded so feelingly .to the “ hay-seed in his hair,” and the “ oats in his throat,” why didn’t he complete the diagnosis by speaking of the rye in his steraaoh ? . His Only Crime.-—Alluding to the death of a c itiz#n recently, the ‘ Danbury News’ remarks: ‘ With the single exception of twenty-three years ago, when his took a fcvr lessons on a yiolin, his life has been blameless.” Juvenile Depravity.—“Do you go to Sab-bath-school, my lad?” kindly asked a city missionary of a depraved little Dubuque urchin. ‘‘Nary,’ answered the innocent child, “but I ve got a- fightin’ cock that can walk over any bird in this town that wears gaffs.” 'English papers to hand by last mail record that the death of Mrs Hannah Moses, widow of Emmanuel Moses, of Saddler’s-hall-court Hotmdaditch, has been registered during the past week, 'at 102 years of age. She died simply from natural 4«cay, and had retained dWP^faMltites 1 'in »Ydfharkable number hntil newly the last, ‘ -- ' •