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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1873, 4 January 1875, Page 3

Popular Science.—lt was our good fortune a short; time, jincg .tp^e&v the^ railier interesting "Malogue; in' one of our . principal,A':li^sh-houses." The interlocutors were a dandified-look-ing, side-whiskered, lisping, middle-aged: man from California, And'a burley, roundheaded, merry-eyed Comstocker, who were seated at opposites sides of the same table. lThe<men>were evidentlyAs.tr c an'g^*B)to eachl, pother. The conversation opened as fojilows :—-Dundreary : : —" Dear me, this is !" (holding -up his knife and :gazing fixedly at its point). " This is eifchaw the second or the third hair—l think it's-the lhird-ithat [W ve!"found in this^but- ; tah !"■ Comstocker : . "You've not been shereldng, Ijudge?" rDundieary t *-No, sir, I arrived here yesterday, morning." |; Comstocker : •" I thought soy otherwise you would not have complained .of.,fair's in the butter." Dundreary :>e Not^com- \ plain ofhairs.m the^^uttahl. You, supp- ? wis^ nie^ siri:' BOo^ dotild- TE '"otherwise,!" Comstocker : "Those,hairs,, sir, I are just as natural to Washoev buifctel' as I butter is a natural product of ; inilk ? They are just as good and just as bl^ati'as the butter." Dundreary,,: >"■ -Impossible !' Corastocker : " Not at alii J"sir. "All our butter comes from the great valleys of our slate, where flourishes that most nutritious and .truly wonderful plant the white sage. On this our cattle feed and fatten. This white sage has many .■virtues. Strange as it may appear to you, sir, from the white sage is manufactured a most wonderful and very popular hair restorative." Dundreary: "Ah, yes: I've heard of it; in fact I may say that in one occasion, when I thought I observed my hair growing a little thin, I used some of the pwepawation." Comstocker: " Well, then, sir, in a country where all

the cowa feed on tho white sage, do you jthin'k-it likely that the butter will be bald'heacled,t|'/ pjiundrearj turned red, pushed 'backSus/chair, andleftyitliout answering ■the conundrum.—Virginia City Enterprise." I "Wanted, Meelers. or Boarders," is a ,'spcciraen of what a Nashua boardingUionso can do when it turns its mind to iliterature.