- Sailing Dibections.—Old gentleman (in the vicinity of the docks) : " Can you direct me to Chiarin' Cross ? Ancient mariner : "Charm' Cross ? Let's see, wind's about nor'-west by nothe-^you keep the sun on your weather bow, and you'll jist about fetch—" (Old gentleman hurries off)— Punch. ' ' ■ : Useful EECiPE.-:-An East Bridgeport woman noticed her husband blowing his breath lustily against the windows and could not account for it until she took up a paper he had laid clown, and ther;e read that "incrustations of frost upon window glass can be prevented, by. the application of a1c0h01.",,..,;, ■>■% ■>:-' ■---. • A CoBBE9noN.r--The Journal of Chemistry says ho one should "drink whisky until it is seven years old. When a Texas paper prints the item it reads: "No one should, drink whisky until he"is seven years old"<—^which makes quite a differenceV "you see—to the whisky.-—Norn's-. town^Merald?; « • •; - - :. ;r-''v .
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2603, 12 May 1877, Page 4
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139Untitled Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2603, 12 May 1877, Page 4
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