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Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1667, 22 April 1874, Page 2

i Umbbiliab Bbpaibbd on, the shortest notice at MMd^u's, ; U cj»y the wharf, Albert, street.— Ami. ■ >;-."' ,"■,• '■'"'."■■' ';t':-«>>- > , EyiißY description of Dyeing and Cleaning, done on the shortest notice.^"^■•Thames Dyeing Establishment, near corner of Bich* mond and Bolleston>itreets.—Advt. Monsteb C£babibto>out Sam. 6s. In the £ returned. .All men's and bojt' clothing much' tinder edit. Sale in"consequence of thescureity of money, till the «nd of thie month* Be in lime for the first of the bargain*. This ii the only genuine sale on the Held where you will receive ss. in oath for every 4fr worth of goods you purchase, at Joseph Hoses' Thames Cloth Hall. Closed from ' ■unset Friday till sunset Saturday.—Abyt. To Spobtsmk.—For some time past ' Powder, Bhot, Caps, and every requisite bare ' been Selling at Cheapest Bates by J. 3. Hart. ','The Thames Gunmaker," in business as such on this field since 1868. He thanks the community for their patronage, especially since resuming business for himself. Amy Gun work-done in the competent manner of twenty years' practical experience, also cheap rates. A select stock of Guns, Shor Pouches Powder Fla»ks,;4(r., 6c., ex Chile Sec., others shortly to arrive. 'Everything purchased at fint cost,-and selling with this advantage. J. S. Ham, Guuniafy, , Pollen-stnet Centra}.—Adtt. , ' * A Painful Casb.—One of the saddest , easel of poetry of which wo bar* ever heard is that of'a young lady^in Mifsoori. A short time ago she round it impossible cither to eat or sleep, and for 10 day* remained in that unpleasant state. Strange to say, the moment the was attacked she began to speak in rhyme. Erery seatepee uttered by those afflicted lips was rich with sweetest melody and measure, v Ordinary affairs she turned into extraor- - dinary verse-i-for instance: "Deartii Ma, list to your daughter, Give her, O give, a4riiik of waughter; " and so on., These charming rhymes were made with' no sort^f effort at all, but just tumbled out, as ii we're, with startling rapidity and precision. Some of we are/told*, were extremely beautiful. Alarmed by so dreadful an illness^ all the nearest phy • sicirns Were summoned by her heart broken parents; each prescribed a dif* ferenfopiate, and by this means poetry was conquered; 'she slept—her life was) saved. Less serious cases of this fearful disease have been known—none before go persistent and absorbing as this.—W«w York Tribune., Soimthixg Lin Svaum.—County journalists here, who are aecustbmed^to rely on snake stories to help them through a dull time, may see what deTelopmentt this class of literature is capable of by studying the following extract tram thtft "New York Tribune^That^hST,. should be two snake stories gliding > through the country press atihesam* time is an embarrassment of riches calculated to cloy the most eager taste fof that sort of thing. The subject of one of these tales sports the merry day away us. Lake Chaplain, and is beautifully formed for a sailor, having a natural hood on the back part ,of his head, with a cape to keep the rain off., He has likewise a Very broad mouth, and smiles engaginglyupoJi the bystanders, as who should: say, * Ap» proach, O breakfast.' The other snake is a Southern one, of an amiable temper* A gentleman while lately employed in gathering the pleasant raspberry became fatigued, and sat himself down Upon what he supposed was a log. To his dismay he immediately began moving down hilt. and presently found that he wasiseated upon, the back of an immense. snake v 60 feet long, and corpulent in' proportion. He arose Idirectly and gracefully retired***