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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3037, 8 November 1878, Page 4

Whebe he was Stabbed.—" Gentlemen of the jury," said a Tuscaroro lawyer, " what kind of swearing has been done in this case P H ere we hare a physician, a man who, from his high and noble calling, should be regarded as one who would scorn lo stain his soul with perjury, or be guilty of giving utterance to an untruth. But what did he testify, gentlemen? I put the question to him plainly as you all heard: 'Where was this man stabbed?' and what was his reply ? Unblushingly, his features as cool and placid as though cut from marble, he replied that the man was stabbed about an inch and a half to the left of the media) line, and- about an inch above the umbilicus, and yet we have proved by three unimpeachable witnesses that he was stabbed just below the Young American hoisting works." • A Conscientious Editob.—-A lady* writing from one of the fashionable watering-places, declares that " the lownecked dress is an abomination into which it is the duty of the press to look." And this is the shameless reply which the Louisville Courier Journal makes to the suggestion: " Very true, low-necked dresses ought to be looked into, and we must say, in simple justice to ourselves, that it is a duty we have seldom, lost an opportunity to discharge." Athletics;--Mr Michael. O'Shaughnes9y got very much interested in the perusal of an expose of Chinese leprosy. He also got very indignant, but failed tq comprehend the exact purport of the article. " Lepers, is it ? " he remarked, "Lepers, is it, that the Chinese are ? It's an old man I am, begorra ; an' I'll bet twentyfoive dollars I'll lep again any Choinaman in the city. I was the foinest leper in County Cork in '37, and I'll tread on the tail of my own coat if I can't lep a five fut hurdle this same minnit."—New York Paper. "