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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1733, 23 July 1874, Page 2

The prominent pious women of Boston are described by Norah Perry as " given to lankihess, sliakiness, and an ironed-down-in-the-back expression." A young lady of Cincinnati, who dotes on Dumas, is anxious to get married and go abroad, as she says she can't be romantic in her native city during the pig- sticking- season. A citizen of Chicago tells us that he recently travailed 2,000 miles in Ohio, and that everybody he met called potato " tater," except one young lady who called it" pertater." A Montreal paper, speaking of a recent dualin explosion, says, in a most pathetic style,-that the bodies of the victims were spread over many rods, " here a piece and there a piece." A saloon-keeper in Union City, Indiana, keeps a saw in his bar-room, which. he amuses himself in filing when the ladies call to pray with him. It is far more potent than the loudest scoffings of the topers." / A Good Defence.—An Oregon paper gays':—" John B. Peak ran off with a Benton country girl and married Jier—for which he was prosecuted in the circuit court at Corvallis ; but the jury got sight of the pretty wife whom ho got by the operation, and. unanimously voted that they would have done it too." No Campbell.—A Scotch baker having got fined for adulterating his bread with alum, acquired among his countrymen the appellation of Mac Alum More. A Common-sense View.—Depressed Liberal: " Bu' don' yer see, Gla'shon was goin' to' bolish th' income taxsh ?" Jocund Tory—" Oh, bother the tax i Letch 'are the income fust!" :