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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2824, 4 March 1878, Page 2

Too Gbvat a Tbmptatiov.—-An Irithman, entering the fair at Ballinagone, saw the well defined form of a large head bulging out of the canvas of a tent. Th« tomptation was irresistible; up went hif shillelah—down went the man. Forth rushed from the tent a host of angry fellows to avenge the onslaught. Juan of their astonishment when they foum^the assailant to be one of their own faotkm. "Och! Nicholas," said they, "and did ye know it was Brady OBrien hitP" "Troth, did I not," say he; "bad luck to me for that same; hot sure if my own father had been there, and his head look* ing so nice and convanient, I could not hare helped myself." ; .

A New York merchant sent a number of bills for collection to sin attorney in Michigan. One of them was against a roan named Mawcombe, who was dead; and the attorney sent back the bill with the endorsement, "Mawcombe's dead/ on the back of it. Several months later he received another lot bf bills from the same establishment, and among them waft one against Mawcombe, which the attar* ney sent back with the endorsement* " Mawcombe's still dead."

" Would you like to be lynched " asked an exasperated Missouri farmer of a hone thief. " No, I'll be hanged if I do/ wu the reply. Mb: Wk; McCoixotoh hiring beta appointed »gent on the Thanes for the Imperial Fire Insurance Company, is prepared to take risks at the lowest, rates. The Imperial Com* pan? was etUblitbed in 1808, and has ■> capital of £1,600,000, with its bead oflm at No. 1, Old Broad street, London. The Melbourne directory hat upon it some of tht most influential men in l!ut city, and tha name the Company bm gained far itself by its prompt and liberal settlement of claims, while eharg* ing moderate rates, lias secured a large amount of buiiurti not only in Australian Colonise* but in all parts of the world in whioh agencies hare been •stablisbtd.—AoTT,