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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2148, 13 January 1881, Page 3

During his recent visit to Hamilton the Marquis of Lome was treated to a fifteenminute address in ancient Gaelic. He is now prepared for a visit from his mother-in-law.— “ Boston Post.” The New Orleans “ Picayune ” eays that “ when a young man returns from a summer tour without his trunk you may know he has had trouble with some of the rascally hotelkeepers on the road.” Henry Picket, of New Jersey, asked his mother for fifty cents to go to the circus. She could raise but ten cents, and he took the balance out in killing her with a club. Some men want all they ask for. “ Mamma, what must I say when I feel like being naughty ?” said a little girl whose conscience had smitten her for some misdemeanour. “ Why, my child, you must say, * Get thee behind me, Satan,’ and yon will not be tempted,” replied the mother. The little youngster paused a moment, and then said, “I did say that, and do you know, mamma, the old debil said, * Ha! ha! lam behind you, and don’t you forget it!’”