Faib Play.—An Irishman who was rery near-sighted, about to fight a duel, insisted that he should stand six paces nearer his antagonist than the latter did to him, and that they were both to fire at the same tinie. GhAPHic—A St. Louis newspaper says beautifully of Salvini's Othello : " It was the awakening fury of. tha Hvrcanian tijier, disturbed at his feast of blood, or the distended tempest of a tropic land, laying all waste before it. The audience were horror-struck." The American Government pay £5000 annually to Chinese interpreters.. In Khiva when a woman goes out she always wears a beggar's dresfs, in order to escape notice. A man-who stammered was accosted bj a trateller with: ■"" Say, friend, how far is it to SmithTille?" The tongue-tied man began: " 8-s-s-six m-m-mi—:" and then losing all control of himself ia his anger he roared: "Go along straight down the road, damn you."
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 1907, 12 February 1875, Page 3
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