Query.-—Could there be a finer bit of unconscious satire than this? A. picture of "the boy that never told a lie " looks down upon the witness stand in the Brooklyn court-room.— ' Boston Globe.'
An elderly lady, who, with her daughter, has just returned from rather a rapid journey through France, part of Germany, and Italy, was asked the other day if they hid visited Rome, and she replied in the negative. "La, ma, yes we did," paid her diughter; " that was the place where ve bought the bad stockings."
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Evening Star, Issue 3924, 21 September 1875, Page 3
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89Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Evening Star, Issue 3924, 21 September 1875, Page 3
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