Judge—" Have you anything to offer to the Court before sentence is passed on. you?" Prisoner— "No, judge, I had ten dollars, but my lawyers took that."
A correction.—ln the pathetio little poem published the other day, for the line, "Oh, sister, mourn not for your dad!" please read, "Oh, sister, mourn not for yog? dead!" —Cincinnati Enquirer^
A witness for the prosecution in a, murder case was thus questioned bj kit Honour:—" You say you saw the man shot at and killed?" "Yes^sir." "You said I think, that the charge struck, the deceased on his body* between the diaphr. ragm and tha duodendum ? " " No, s ir; X didn't say no such thing. I £aid he waa "shot between the hog-peri md the wood-house."
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3380, 22 October 1879, Page 2
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124Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3380, 22 October 1879, Page 2
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