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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3646, 2 September 1880, Page 3

A Milwaukee clergyman who, v.hile preaching a sermon on a recent Sunday evening, perceived a man and woman under the gallery in tbe act of kissing each other behind a hymn book, did not lose his temper. No, he remained calm. He" beamed mildly at the offenders OTer his spectacles; and when the young man kissed her the fifteenth time, he merely broke his sermon short off in the middle of "thirdly," and offered a fervent prayer on behalf of the " young man in the pink necktie, and the maiden iv the blue bonnet and grey Bhawl, who were profaning the ■antuary by kiesiog one another in pew 78." And the congregation eaid " Amen." Then tbe woman pulled her veil down, and the young man does not go to church now as much as he did.

" What pretly children, and how much they look alike!" says C, during a first risit to a friend's house. "They are twins," hi» friend explains. "What, both of 'emP" exclaims"C, greatly interested."

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