General News.
Mr Charles Watson, of Halifax, describes in the " Alliance News" a gigantic e'flbrt in the wuy of tract dis trreuting, in which he. is engaged. In October last he made an offer of a free grant of 1,000,000 tracts to clergymen and others *ho would nndertate to distribute them. The applications were so numerous that Mr Watson extended his plan of operations, so that, including packages waiting to be sent off, he has given away since October 8,000,000 of tracts relating to temperanbe. PA Difficult Loctfto Pick.—One from a bald head.
Btery husband thinks he can tame a shrew except the poor fellow that has her. A tradesman often looses his custom, and a field sporJsman his fingeis —by high charges . A sermon in Barbadoes, recently, was closed thus :—" My obstinacious bredren, I find it no more use to preach to you dan it is' for a grasshopper to wear kneebreeches.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3917, 19 July 1881, Page 3
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153General News. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3917, 19 July 1881, Page 3
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