CABLE COMMERCIAL,
London, Aug. 23,
Monetary.— Stocks dull ; New Zealand Consolidated Fives, 107£ ; Sixes, 113. Wheat is advancing. Tallow, oils, petroleum, and hides are unaltered. Copper, firm at LBl to LB3 ; Australian, L9l ; tin active ; Straits, 128 to 129.
Another poor girl has died in Virginia from the use of tobacco at the age of 100. She was an orphan. Maine husbands have a trick with talkative wives. A man tells his wife that he is going to Ausanghuatansogowmongotongo to fish. He then requests all his friends to call at the house and to inquire as to his whereabouts. When he returns the poor woman is exhausted, and doesn't speak again for a month. " The following notice was recently found posted on the doors of the Arkansas Benate-chamber :—" Job work executed with economy and despatch." Vermont forgets all the hardships of the past winter in jubilation over its maple sugar season, and cheerfully asks, "what's the odds so long as ita sappy."
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Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1584, 2 September 1873, Page 2
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162CABLE COMMERCIAL, Grey River Argus, Volume XIII, Issue 1584, 2 September 1873, Page 2
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