Class Injustice.—" Say, mister.'^aid a small boy to one of the assistants of the public library, " I can't find the bcokt I want to git into these here catalogues. I wish yer'd find 'em for me." "What work do you wish to draw ? " paternally inquired the official. " Well, har yer got ' Mulligan the Masher, or the Glory Galoot of the Galtees?"' The man shook his head. "Well, I'd like 'Redheaded Ealph, the Banger of the Roaring Eialto.' " "We don't keepjany of that kind of trash, my boy." - " Wot sort of a library is, this, any way ? " retorted the gamin; "-why, its just like everythin' else in this country—run for the rich, an' the poor working man gits no show at ell."—Boston Traveller.
A Test.—A meek-eyed married man 'offered as a test at a spiritual seance that the medium name the articles in his wife'i upper bureau drawer. The medium said the spirits would repeat the contents of Webster's dictionary or any other light task, but that life was too short to attempt the task proposed, and the rash proposer was hurried out of the hall.
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2897, 29 May 1878, Page 2
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311Untitled Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2897, 29 May 1878, Page 2
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