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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3228, 24 June 1879, Page 3

The following .-, stqry. M told; in the World :—" In a first-class carriage by the 5 o'clock traia vfcom y.Eusfcon-square Bat two gentlemen, up apd probably since, strangers to each other. The elder lived near Ore we; the younger ere route .for, Ire.Und, .intended...to sleep atChester.r'':^!Tiia',cpn^f!rsation'.between 1 them grew animatedl Said the elder presently ' Give up your idoa of sleeping at Chester, and do me the honor of passing the night : at mf l'h6}ise^''Tb^': offer' Was accepted with grateful "effusibn.' On leaving in,the mornffi^ 1!'ssiitj'the'' tjaest, 'Answer my queßtioti'franldy? 'What induced you, on such an insufficient acquaintance, to confer so great; a benefit on me.',-Beplied .the , host, 'lAs^ybu' press me, your question aholl -bo--frankly - answered; My wife always teljs rae r |,hri I, am the uglie,st man inrjQ-rejat 'Britiin ';. I .wished-,to shpw her 1h >£t6ih!ere"'w'as! an,uglieri"^ « A distinguished Japanese! traveller in this countr,y;i /wiite^rhomo: " the chief branch'of education of young men hero is rowing. The people have largo boat houses called ' colleges,' and theprincipal of t^BSjaf^Yale^an^ Harvard..'' .J'.;.'," : ''. It so on Long Island, says an exchange, thai; if a wile has a strange tastettaa^ijer-'inonth-, she at once" jumps out of doors and screams, kl Pizened by my husj>fe|tji|!" |,;'; ; :." '•/': \. ■ i::'..: '■ ■■..

j;.:,-;;-> r.uy ■■ • ■•■■' : ; iTHAMES' WVNTY. mENDERS willbe received until FRIJL DAY, noon, from IPoreonß willing to act as COLLECTOR for the .Council. : Full particular* on application to tlio undersigned. (By order,) „...,.., ; E. W. Holms, • 670 ' County Olork. Rediicvtloii in FaresTQiriiebt; the tiiines, and in compliance with a generally expressed wish, W. BiVKF.Ti has detorminod to JtEDTJCE the FARES hitherto charged between-Qrahainstown and Shorlland, and in Juturo tho furo by his 'buagos will b-— \ . 3d Only. LOST, OTf-'-'Hiatn'rHny nighi. between St. George's HaU yfnd, Knraka, Bridge, a PUESE, contalnjng^Aieraallj.uuA of. money and papers of usi pnfy'to'.th'e^wner. • Any. person Jeav ing i£°kl&o bflice of tins' paper will receive 10». - .. ,E. Ohapm^.