Note by a Naturalist —One swallow does not make a summer, but every grasshopper makes a sirring. —Fun. Query.—Could there he a lino- bit of unconscious satire than this? A picture of “ihe boy that never told a lie” look.-, down upon the witness stand in the Brooklyn courier, om. ‘ Boston Globe.’
In the streets of Leicester, one day, Dean Swift was accosted by a drunken weaver, who, staggering against him, said. “ L have been spinning it; out.” “ Yes,” said the Dean, “ and now you are reeling it home.” That Printer Again. An editor wrote:
“The first duty a man owe- his conn try is to stand by its constitutional ilghtc," ft appeared in Ids paper thus ; -“The fits!, putty a man does his courting is to stride in continental tights.” A lynx eyed prouf-i e.ider and an intelligent compositor arc now dodging ab-.ns town as best they can to avoid a fien/iodedit< r with a double-barrelled shot-gun.- -■ Albw Argus,’
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Evening Star, Issue 3905, 30 August 1875, Page 3
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160Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 Evening Star, Issue 3905, 30 August 1875, Page 3
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