Devout mother to a-young Jady who is burning up letters—" What are you doing there, my dear? Are you burning incense ? " Young lady—" Oh, no, m»; I am only burning nonsense." Ode to Sttmmee. —An American poet has got off the following:—l wud knott dye in summer, and leave the garden sass, the roasted lamb and buttermilk, the cool place on the grass. I wud knott dye in (rammer, when everything is hot, and leave the whiskey jewlips; owe know Tde rather knott.
A Disappointment.—When Captain Boyton was about to land on the English coast, after his trip across the Channel, a row of reporters stood along the cliff expecting to hear him exclaim, "God sare the Queen," or something of that sort, but, at the critical moment, he stepped on a slippery rock and fell back with an exclamation that nobody but a profane man would ear* to r«p«at.
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2107, 5 October 1875, Page 4
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150Untitled Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2107, 5 October 1875, Page 4
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