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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2078, 1 September 1875, Page 3

MOBE THAN A MATCH FOB TI[EM. —A well-known and popular comedian told a story of a waiter at one of the London taverns who was sadly given to drink. A Earty of young men determined to reform im, and one day read an imaginary paragraph from a paper relating a terrible accident, in which an inebriate, in blowing out a candle was killed by the flame igniting the alcoholic fuuie3 of his breath. Jerry pricked up his ears at this,.and requested that the paragraph might be read to him again, which waa doae, to the evident horror of the poor man, who immediately wenfc in search of a Bible. Eeturning with this* he expressed & desire to-take a solemn oath upon ■ it, bemoaned the fact that he had been a

sorry tippler and wag bringing himself to ruin, and then swore that never again, so leng as he lived, would he attempt to blow out a caudle! | A Dying Teibe.—Seneca tribe ofi North American Indians now consists of J one old horse, a chief, and three gallons of whisky. A few more setting suns, a few more moons—a brief season—and that three-gallon jug will join its comrades in the liappy; hunting ground.—American paper. f Ambiguous.—Lord Cardigan, shortly before his death, reviewed a famous hussar regiment, and on making the usual speech, he said, with more emotion than he usually showed, "I am getting old. gentlemen, and in all probability I shall never again review this magnificent regiment this side the grave."