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Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1651, 5 June 1879, Page 4

An old Scotchman, on marrying a very young wife, was rallied by hia friends on the inequality of their ages. “ She will be near me,” he replied, “to close my een.” “ Wesl,” remarked another of the party, “I’ve had twa wives, and they opened my een.” Mr Bret Harte, the American humourist, made his first appearance in England as a public lecturer, in the opera-house of the Crystal Palace, on the 28th January. His subject was “ The Argonauts of ’49,” and was a description of life and manners in California thirty years ago. A Wbbtched Subterfuge. —The proprietors of certain pseudo-temperance bitters declaim, with seeming virtue, against medicines containing spirits, in order to obtain a sale of their own fermented concoctions. Ask your physician whether an alcoholic basis is not essential to preserve a liquid botanic preparation from souring, and you will receive an answer in the affirmative. The success of Udoipho WoiFfl’a Schiedam Aeomatxc Schnapps, as an invigorant and corrective, excites the envy and malice of the “ no alcohol” impostors.

SPECIAL TO CRICKETERS. TO mate room for oar new Christmas Stool of FANCY GOODS, The balance of • CRICKETING MATERIALS Will be sold at greatly Reduced Prices, vobbett’s, Foltham’s, and Duke’a best makes. MONTAGUE'S Fancy Bazaar, High street, 3257 BLIG-H’S CANTEEBUEY EESTAUEAN^ P ap*nul Road, near Post Office. meals, AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY. BOARD AND LODGINGS 17«., 18a. £1 PER WEEK, Badi and Meala Ia 4