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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1908, 2 December 1874, Page 3

The other day (aayj an American pape r ). aV, r . two-cent dog sprang from ah alley, closely/ol" lowed by a live ceut brick. Boanding the corner at right angles he came in" contact with the: feet of a Dutchwoman, who was carrying a jag; of molasses in one hand and a basket of eggs io. the other. The sudden collision of the dog with. ' i her lower extremities, threw her from her feat,, and she sat down upon the bisket of eggs, at; < the same time breaking the jug of molasses upom . ■ the pavement. A young gentleman, carpet-ba* in hand, anxious to catch the tram, was run*, niog close behind, and stepping on the fragment* of the jug and its, contenis, sat down on the • chest of the Dutchwoman who said. "Mind ' " Got." The young man s.tid something about mad dog, but, in the exciteraent-of ttaTmom at r said it backward?, In the meantime the dog ran against the'feet of a team of horses attached to a load of potatoes, and they in their fright started home. The end,board falling out, they unloaded the potatoes along the street as they went. ; • Crossing the railroad track, the waggon caught the rails and tore one df them from its place. A freight train coming along a few moments later was thrown from the track, smashing up a dozen cars, and killing, thirty or forty hogs. The horse 3on ,reaching home, ran Y through the barnyard and overturned a milking. pail and contents, which another two cent dog ' licked up i'ne of the horses having broken' his leg »■ as killed this' mdrning, and the other • is crippled for' life. It is now a mooted question whether the man who 'threw the briok at the twO'Cent do*, or the uian who owns it is responsible for the chapter of accidents which ' followed. ■. ■

Somebody has.been publishing a school-book history of Etigland.and .spelling s "calendar ' with a " k,'' after the Greek usage, although there were no Greek kalends; and the Spring*' field Republican pertinently aaka if we . must ' write the ka*.aracts v oE the r Nile," and speak' of! a sad " katastrophe ? If hot, why'nott • Why render unto 0, sir, tho things that nevei; belonged, to sir?