The recent sentence on the man Perry —the Underground-Railway robber-^ got somewhat "mixed " in its translation^ into the Russian papers. Instead of announcing that he had received twenty years' penal servitude and thirty strokes with the cat, the provincial journals of Russia stated that he had been sentenced to " twenty years' imprisonment with thirty cats." " What is a doctor of music P" enquired an individual who was solicited for a subscription to a certain fund. " One who, if you broke a leg, can set it to music," was the prompt reply. Two guineas.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3843, 23 April 1881, Page 2
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93Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3843, 23 April 1881, Page 2
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