Old lady Squoggs don't believe the moon is inhabited. "For," says she, " what on airth becomes of folks in the moon when there's nothing left of it bat a little streak P" When you read the seductive legend in the tobacconist's window, "Oar threepenny cigars can't be beat," remember if they can't be beet they may be cabbage. At stations on the new Southern Pacific Railroad, the following tigti* are seen in front of tents and ahantifrt,:—" One meal, 25 cents; Square Meal, 50 cents; Gorge, 75 cents."
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4011, 5 November 1881, Page 2
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88Untitled Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 4011, 5 November 1881, Page 2
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