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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2536, 21 February 1877, Page 2

Wanted Everybody to Know that all kinds of.Watches, and Clocjks canjbo repaired at J. T. Clakkb's, Pollen street (corner of Mary street). N.B. Balance Staffs, Cylinders,.and Pinions worked in for the: Trade. English Hunting-Lovers, £8 10s.—Advt. Prudent Mother.—She fanned herself with her handkerchief as she sat down on the stool in front of the soda fountain, and . as the clerk was drawing the syrup she turned to herdaughterV!* girl of 15, and remarked—" Now, Mary, be careful. Don't gulp it down at three swallows *nd get exploded all to pieces by the gas/but sip, sip, and don't run any risks."*— American paper. Dreadful Spectacle.—Men who hare stood where thousands fell, who, have gazed unmoved upon the horrors •■ of the battlefield and the wrecks of the storm, cannot without emotion, behold the devastation and mangled ruin which marks the progress of a woman with a scythe. Nature shudders when it sees a woman throw a stone, but when it sees a woman swinging a scythe, it'just tries to cover up its head and keep out of sight until' the ruin is complete. ■ ' Altered His Mind.—An inebriated individual walked into the telegraph, office at the depot recently and penned the followiug brief but expressive despatch to a friend in Springfield: "lam happy." " Twenty-five cents," said the operator. He ran his fingers into his rest pocket in a vacant sort of way, smiled feebly, and afterwards remarking, " Guess I'll wj^it till I get there myself," staggered out.-^-Bridgeport Standard. ..• • • Pat Out of Place. — An Irishman, being tried for assault and'battery in Virginia City, Nevada, when asked by the judge if lie had anything to say by way of defence, replied, " Well your honor, I saw bnt little of the fight, as I was underneath most of the time." HsBBEwCowFECTioNBaT.—Jew-jewba,