To GET BID OF HOUSE FIIEB. —Get a four-horse power engine erected in the j back of the mansion, run shafting in I every room connected with the engine aforesaid by belting, smear the wheels with treacle, and set the engine going on. The flies being attracted by the treacle on the flywheels, will light on them, and the wheel revolving rapidly they will be got rid of. This is a most efficacious remedy, and the produce will find a ready sale as black currant jam. A German who bad juit landed was before the Norwich City Ceart tbe other week. He spoke seven words, all the English he had learned coming over, and was fined seven dollars for profanity. An Irish drummer, who now and then indulged in a noggin of light good potheen, -w&s accosted by the reviewing general," What makes your nose so red ?" "Plase yer honor," replied Pat, "I always blush when I speak to a general officer." i
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Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 2
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163Untitled Thames Star, Volume VIII, Issue 2905, 7 June 1878, Page 2
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