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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1728, 17 July 1874, Page 3

' " Cut this out—it may save your life, " is the heading of a patent-medicine puff in numerous country papers. A woman who has cut the paragraph out 293 times is still spared to record her testimonial as to the life-preserving virtues of the effort; Legitimate Ikfebence.—-When you see a, barerheaded man following a. cow through the front gate, and filling the air tilth'garden' implements and profanity ', you may know that the cabbage plants have been set out. Merely His Way.-tAii Indiana . farmer don't pay any tolls. He shoots the gatekeeperi and jogs right alp Eg. They have tried him twice, but he gets clear, since one of his aunt's cousins used to act like." - •,,. »Titdicial Dignity.—Remark of his Honour to somebody who applauded in a Griffin, Ga., court: "Now, dry tip ! I trill let "you know that this isn't a camp meeting." The offender immediately became as dry as a bone.—New Yorlf Tribune. , ;• A Louisiana negro, elected to the Legislature, explained his official duties as "votin' for de bill which has de most monjey tinder it*" ;