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Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2349, 13 October 1881, Page 4

This advertisement recently appeared in a New York journal:—' My wife Mary Ann is strayed or stolen. I will break the head of anybody who returns her to me. As to giving credit, every merohant has a right to do so ; but, as I have never paid my own debts, it is not probable that I shall pay hers.' " You are a fraud, sir ! When I bought this horse from you, you assured me that ho hadn't a fault. Why, sir, he's stone blind!" Vendor : " I know he is ; but I don't consider that a fault. I call it a misfortune." It is said to be the special prerogative of the Americans to tell a huge story, but the Germans are not far babiad in this important matter. One of them lately stated that he hod seen in Berlin a bass viol so large that it took two horses to draw the bow across it, and the strings continued to vibrate for six weeks. The pupils of one of the high schools at Boston wrote compositions, a short time since, upon the " Bilgrini Fathers," and one young lady olosed her's as follows: —" Upon tho whole, when I reflect upon the outward circumstances of our Pilgrim Forefathers, and their somewhat harsh and rigid virtues, I am struck with two things—first, that they muet have had an exoellent opportunity to practise archery with the Indians ; and, second, that they would doubtless be very unpleasant people to have for next door neighbors. But they make splendid ancestors." On? of the brigands of the band who cap tured Mr Suter has been arrested at Athens with 11,000 francs in his possession. Three more brigands belonging to the same band ore reported to be hiding in Greece.