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Thames Star, Issue 3807, 11 March 1881, Page 2

The Feiday Superstition.—Sridarthey say, is an unlucky day to star<?% journey. Uncle Jim Johnson, with his usual determined contrariness, refused to believe this, and, to prove his faith, foe the last two years has been starting to Gainesville, purposely setting Friday as the time to begin his journey. Bat what is strange, something always intervened to prevent the trip. A week or so since our aged friend again started for ■ his Mecca, settling the unlucky day to leave. But, alas! when he went to harness up his horse he found it dead. Uncle Jim says he intends to make that Gainesville trip on Friday if it takes all the horses in Oglethrope county.

" Where shall we put this ?" asked a man of a Milwaukie woman, at the same time pointing to the dead body of her husband, which he and other neigbours had brought homa. " Well," said the widow, "I'm sore X don't know. I've just done house-cleaning, and I can't haye brought in here." f

An Arkansas man thoughtlessly set some spring guns in his poultry-yard, and the next morning in the rising sun he rubbed his v ;speetaeles and stared in speechless anjaaenient at, eighteen candidates for governor, sitting on the tront fence" picking bird-shot out of their thirty-sir' legs. J