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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3224, 19 June 1879, Page 2

1 , . -r, f>-.A>:iJi>\ I A .doston romance, id which a hale and hearty man of fifty and a alight little ■woman a couple of years younger figuriM^" is reported. The two met on a rainy day, while hurrying with t tilted umbrellas iabout their busineis; a' collision followed and the woman slipped to the sidewalk. In picking her up the man recognised her ai an old flame. Thirty years before, wlien she was a Lowell factory /girT, and*he a poor medical student at Harvard, they had loved each other. In 1849, he went to California and forgot the girl he left behind him. He prospered in business became rich, and married. Later his wife and. children died, and in his loneliness he remembered.the i Lowell factory, girl. A dream told h}iii~ali4 lw|if lKdw-'J tress. He hurried East to find[ her 7 but" looked, in vain till Ih?^ accidentally met. She was a widow with two children and in destitute .circumstances ; but that is all over now.—New York Times. As Others See Us.—A very old ladyjonin lior death-bed in p^nitenUal mood said :l .]j have bean a sin nor more than 80 years,':? and didn't know it.". An o'd darkey woman, wbo had lived with bar jd'jc:^ ? lime, exclaimed: ". Lors? I'kud'ired' it ' all the iime." .. i '* i The every-day cares and daties which men call drudgfry are the weight* and counterpoises of the clock of lim?,; Riring | its pendulum a true vibration ,and . itsr^ hands a, regular motion,, and wheQ,.theyi!#, ceaso to bang upon the wheels the pe.oid»M<;| lum no longer swrngs, the hands no longer move, the clock stands still.