CUSTOMS RETURNS.

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1761, 25 August 1874, Page 3

CUSTOMS RETURNS.

Amount of Bevenuo collectedvat the Port of Thames-for the week ending 25th August, 187<t:—.,. „ i

Mastee Tom, who is home .for the holidays, found a box of sweatmeati! oine morning in a drawer, and his mother was relating in the evening how the young scapegrace had emptied the box. "It's not truo," cried Master Tom; "I l«f----two." Ills godfather asked him in confidence whyshe had not eaten rthcm: " Ola," replied the youngster with a sigh, " becjvuse/Ilcionldn^':' v- -U'X ■-.■ivlr'. .;;•>,?.) j . The.Wjet Suasoit in IBELAiJD.-^-Gent ! seeking-.shelter r-^-'-It; surprises -me very much, my goo'dma'u; that yoii do hot repair your roof to keep the rain out." Pat:—" Begorra, sir, sur you woulden't expect a poor man to go out to thatch; a roofisuch'a day&sithis ? WhY ird be w«t to the skin." Gent:— " No, certainly not. But why not take advantage of a dry day?" Pat:—"A dry day, yer honor! Why it never wants it then, for sorrafa drop ever comes in except it's raining/ An story_/is told of. the daughter of a well-known London Alderman who was recently taken to dinner by a judge who figured pronrinently in the Tichbbrne trial. The conversation turned on the young lady's usual place of residence, which happened to be Highgate. " Don't yodtliink Highgate.pretty ?" she asked. Unfortunately t she was slightly uncertain in her' aspirates. His lordship gave her one hurried, glance of intense ■ astonishment, "You gtet prbtty,"' he-"re-plied gallantly, recovering his presence of mind " No, Miss , I think you were always pretty." However horrified at the compliment, the young lady quite justified, itby: her profuse blushes.' '' ; A Mattek-offact Tbavelleb,—Asia travelling party were riding through Palestine, the attention of a certain American was called to the reputed site of Moses' tomb. " Moses who ? " says Jonathan. Why, tho great Moses who led tho children of Israel through thje desert for forty years." "How far is that ? " " Three hundred miles, maybe." Upon which the American remarked, " The Pacific and Chicago railway would have taken them through, I guess, in eight hours." n. . , . \

.*.ui ■ <X ■':!.' >•->■> /ustoms Duties U.S. Fees '. :,'} ' ..... / -- £ s d 48 12 ; 6 0 6 j 0 £18 18 i 6