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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1804, 14 October 1874, Page 2

Winter Clothing, consisting of Gentlemen's Ovfrcoits, Real Mackintosh Coats, are being cold to suit all • purchasers at Joseph Moses, Thames Cloth Hall.—Advt,

Eyeey description of Dyeing and CloaniEg done on the shortest notice at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, near corner of .Richmond and Erolleeton-streete.—Adtt.

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One evening lately, a lecturer on spiritualism observed a lady in deep mourning leaving the hall. He addressed her from the platform, and asked her to wait for a few moments, as the spirit of her husband wished to communicate with her. " I know it," she replied, •'' for he is now at the door waiting to escort me home." The lecturer adjourned early, and loft the town n»xt day.'

Many years ago, before the police force bad reached ths state of efficiency to which it has now attained, it was no common occurrence tosee a number of village wags darting down the street with the rattle, hafc, or baton "of some luckless " bobby," who, being unable to cope with such daring fellows, found ifc the better part of valour to wait patiently until bis tormentors goodnaturedly restored bis property. Another daring' though less common feat was for a burly villager to snatch some pigmy policeman and run off with bim in bis arms. While this trick was being perpetrated one night on " Little Charlie," a village policeman in a Scotch midland country, he was beard to exclaim in: great wrath, " Dea ye bear me, you blackguard ? I'll no pawry wi' ye ony 1 anger. If you dinna let me dojn, I'll tak' ye up ! "

Magistrates who wish to take lessons in " suitable admonitions" will find a few useful hints in the feeling observations addressed by a judge in Eansas, United States, to a prisoner the other day, reported ia one of the local papers:— "Brumley, you infamous scoundrel, you nre an unredeemable villiam ! You hain't got a single redeeming trait in your character. Your wife and family wish we had sent you to the Penitentiary. This is the fifth time I have had you before me, and you have put me to more trouble than your neck i 3 worth. I've exhorted and prayed over you long enough, you scoundrel! Just go home and take one glimpse of your family, and be off in short order ! Don't let's ever hear of you again. The grand jury have found two other indictments against you, but I'll discharge you on your own recognisance; and, if I catch you in this neck of words to-morrow morning at daylight, I'll sock you right square in _gcal, and bump you off to Jeffersonville in less than no time, you infernal scoundrel! If ever I catch you crossing your finger at a man, woman, or child, white man or nigger, I'll sock you right square into the jug! Stand up, you scoundrel, while I pass sentence onyou I"