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Evening Star, Issue 4101, 19 April 1876, Page 4

Mrs Partington desires to know why tie captain of «. vessel can t keep a mem r m-um < f the weight of liis anchor, inat ad of weighing it eve>y time he 1 aves pun. A travel inr life inrmance aeent applied t a Texa ito “ take <>u' a policy but tie T< xau plied, ‘ A fellow’s If- is so u cert w in t.d coramunj y. it ain't worth insurin'.” The Labst Item.-The refined style, so :s not to shock people’s nerves, was invented bv a boudoir journalis , Adolphus de C c ue. He thus writes of a fe.-ent event:~“A Missouri man has, weregret to record, coaxed a boy to tak a sulphuric ac id, and a crowd, we rejoice to promulgate, coaxed-the. man to play pendulum from the limb of a shady tree. ’ - American paper.