Sad Falling. Off.—The ghost of Noah Webster came to a spiritual medium in Alabama, not long since, and wrote on a slip of paper, "It is tite times/ Noah Was' right, but we are sorry to see that he has gone back in his dictionary. Several passengers on the lower Mississippi were attraoted by the alligators basking in the sunshine. "Are they amphibious, captain ? " asked a looker-on. "•Amphibious, thunder! " answered the enthusiastic officer, "they'll eat a hog a minute." Couldn't Do It.—A Philadelphia paper advertises " for a boy to open oysters with a reference." We don't believe a boy j oould open 50 oysters a day with a "reference." An oyster-knife is the beat thing" yet discovered for that pupose, though, of course, there is no harm in experimenting with other things. Old John Bbown.—An Altoona man claims to have a pair of traces used by John Brown at Harper's Ferry. It has been hitherto generally supposed that the I old man wag so effectually wiped out that there were no traces of him left.—Boston Transcript.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2056, 6 August 1875, Page 3
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176Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2056, 6 August 1875, Page 3
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