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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2149, 23 November 1875, Page 4

A Sympathetic Boy. —A . boy; tried his first pipe the other day. When his father came iome to dinner, he found him -braced against a barrel with his legs apart, his hands and lower jaw drooping listlessly, and-a deathly pallor overspreading his face. "What is the matter with yon ?,". inquired the amazed parent. My—teacher is—is;sick," gasped the boy. "Well, you mustn't feel so badly abbut it Tommy," said the father kindly. *" She will get well again, without a doubt." And then stepping into the house, he observed to his wife that'was the most sympathetic boy he ever saw. Scene at the Djstboit Post-office.—- ---" Ish der some ledder here for me?" inquired a German the general delivery window of the-post-office on Saturday. " ITo—none here," was the reply. •• Vhell jelat ish queer," he continued, getting his he#d fnjto the window; '• my neighbour get sometimes dree ledders in one day, und I get none. I bays more daxes as he does, and I haf never got one ledder yet. How comes dose dings."—'Detroit Free Press. A tombstone in a Colorado cemetery has the following touching epiCaph : — " He was young, lie was fair, ' But the Injuns raised his liair." Swallowing His Swobd.—The colonel of a regiment of militia was informed that pus of- his men had swallowed his .sword, <jjgjd- that it had -run through his body without hurting him, * On - inquiry he found that he had sold his Word to" buy liquor ' J