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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3796, 26 February 1881, Page 3

Kissing, within the bounds of becoming propriety, has grown to be part and parcel of the unbending of manners at Christmas time. That which is proverbially allowed to go by favor goes bj reasons as well, and what may at Yuletime be done with impunity would be sheer impertinence at Midsummer. Morerover, towards the end of every succeeding year, *Qe festire but innocent laiute finds employment for a number of poor but worthy persons, and includes such.pretty pastoral sights and sounds as that of Hodge, the farm-hand, making tbe winter woods and orchards ring with the noise of his bill-hook stripping the limes and poplars, the apple and hawthorn trees of their beautiful parasites, which Dobbin draws, piled up in the aid wain, heavily along the miry roads to market If the Pruids could come back to life no doubt t&ey would stare to see what. is sometimes done under their mistletoe.; and if it is true that the AOpienißarder was pierced to the heart with a spear of mistletoe, it is no more 4han lofteo happens at this time of year to oid and young fellows who feel the sweet, green,/fleshy tines go metaphorically through their waistcoats, pausing a wound which nothing but osculation, labially administered, can possibly cure. When Jenny stands blushing furtively within a «d©orway, under a forked sprig with white ferries, Jessamy must be indeed a dull youth if bpjth of them are not presently pleased.—London Daily Telegraph. A gentleman recently received an unpaid letter (for which the postman charged him two-pence) commencing, " Sir, your letter of yesterday bears upon its face the stamp of falsehood," His answer was brief and &p the purpose : :-r fi Sir, I only wish your letter -of yesterday bore upon its face a stamp of any kind." " Happiness is like a sunbeam, which thjs ; least shadow intercepts, while adversity is often as the rain of spring. '° PlMS.—Somewhere or other iMßeaH® is ever rife: everywhere its surest .opponent, .this purifying medicine is to be founds When .symptoms of sickness first set in,' they may fee /saejly subdued by this grand remedy, which gives gr^fc and prompt relief (feo every oppressed organ op disordered funcffcioH, These Pills regulate and strengthen ddgestSoa ffioro readily, efficiency, and with morecextainttf .than any other combination of <lrug9l t»e it evex fl<? scientifically prescribed, ifothiag can exceed ,tfae ability of Hollo way s -medicine to eecure natural fenojbjonal action, irhejtd&y thoueands of life long maiad^es JfW« ■fceen'prevented afc very trifting expense andi^o detriment to the constitution. An acquisition ie, {jj-iceless should be at hand in every houße-