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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2013, 17 June 1875, Page 3

The Geet.Maee,—^There was an old', couple at the Central Depot yesterday , waiting-to, go'through to the West, and they seemed! loving enough until the old man went out and returned smoking a five cent cigar, and with his hat slanting over, hii.left ear." His wife looked at him twice-before she could recognise him, , and' then opened, her mouth and < said, , " What'd I tell ye, Philetus Remington, before we.left New Jersey? Didn't I say you'd go and make a fool of yourself the -firsfe chance 'you got P" He tried to pacify her by saying that the cigar cost only five-cents,;but she shouted; "You teased and teased till I let you get your bo,ots. 'blalcked;; then, you wanted some ioda-water; then you bought apples on thertrain, and here's another fire cents thrown away! It all counts up, and if you don't die- in the poorhouse, then my name hain't Sary !"—Detroit Free Press. The' politeniss of- the American people is well illustrated by the readiness with which they give room in'a crowd to the "man who carries a paint-pot.