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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3804, 8 March 1881, Page 2

Did you ever notice the little ragamuffin in the street with a supremely dirty face ? Taffy, bread and butter and molasses form the groundwork for the accumulation of dust and grime, and his cheeks look like twin maps of the oceanic archipelago; his hands and wrists look like animated tree roots, they are so dirty ; and his feet and ancles partake of the mud they come in contact with. Of course you've noticed him. And he is the lightest-hearted bunch of hunun nature you ever saw. Dirt doesu't strike any deeper than beauty, and within his heart is as clean a little soul, and a great deal freer one, as overgrew inside the neatest and sickest young dovotee of so;ip and water, that ever lived, washed and suffered —New Haven Begister.

A Wisconsin cow died not long ago, after a liuuering illness, attendant by a persisteut cough. After her death a veterinary surgeon opened the windpipe to discover the cause of the irritation, and found in the upper part of the lung a live striped frog'of ordinary size. The surrouding .portion of the lung was much discolored.

One of the India-muslin gowns worn at a Newport reception recently was embroidered in, thirty different colours, and four months were required to work it.