INVERNESS.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2584, 19 April 1877, Page 2

INVERNESS.

Blake and party banked so« 740rta today as the result of.their crjdshinj^which was completed to-day.' A ' ','^j\\ '

A Vacuum Wanmd,—As gentleman in . Chester had a goodly fair house;* newbuilt, but the broken bricks, tiles,'land, limestones,- and such rubbish as is commonly the remains of such buildings,'lay confusedly in. heaps, and scattered here 1 and there. The gentleman demandr of his surveyor wherefore, the Tubbiih was "not, carried away, The surveyor 1 said thatvhe proposed to hire a' hundred 'carts for the purpose. The .gentleman replied that the charge of carts might, be saved, "for a pit might be digged in the ground and bury it." " Sir," said the surveyor, "I pray you, what sball.we- do* with the earth which we dig'out of the said pit'?" ." Why, you silly fellow," said tlje' gcqtle? maa, canst thou not dig the-pit deep enough, and bury all together !" r Useful to Know.—?' It.ijjjiaid that a hen held up by one leg will qotaguawkiialf as much as when both* legs are grasped." Thanksgiving Days is only two months hence, and persons-who are accustomed to purchasing their poultry at night, a few ' hours after the owner qf the fowls has re s wQuld do well tq cut this out and paste it in their -hats.—Norristown Herald.