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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3409, 25 November 1879, Page 3

Some lynchers caught a horse thief in Colorado the other day, and Rave him his choice of hanging or joining a new " Pinafore " company. The doomed man bowed his head in a deep thought a few minutes, looked up with an expression of calm resignation on his face, and silently pointed to his neck. They hoisted him. Twenty-five years ago a Missouri boy left his home and started out to become President of the United States. He got as far as Cincinnati. The boy is now a man, and is now one of the best shoemakers in the Ohio State Prison. A young bride, momentarily expecting the return of her husband, was handed a telegraphic dispatch, which so excited her that, without having strength to break the envelope, she fainted away. Upon recovering she found her husband seated beside her. " Oh, Aliek," were her first words, " I thought you had fallen down and cut your throat with one of those horrible standing collars." A Sound Excuse.—" Prisoner, why did you follow this man and beat and kick him so shamefully ? " "I am sorry, your honour; I was a little drunk, and I thought it was my wife."

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