People should mind how they, express themselves at a public dinner. We read theother dAy that the builder of a church now in coarse of erection, wben his health was given, rather enigmatically replied that he was more fitted for the scaffold than for public speaking. In excavating the clay on Lord Normanton'a estate near Crowland, England, the workmen, exposed about three acres of a subterranean forest, ten feet below the surface., Some of the trees are in an admirable state of preservation^ one gigantic oak measures 18 yards in length. The trees are in such a condition that the oak can be distinguished from the elm, while a kind of fir tree seems to be most abundant, the wood .of which is so hard that the trees can be drawn out of the clay in their entirety of root and branch. The surrounding clay contains quantities of the remains of flags, grasses, and types of Jower vegetable life. The spot has been vißited.by crowds of people. Ex Governor Sprague, of Rhode Island, whose'mansion was recently sold to Frank Moulton (of Beecher trial fame), refuses to transfer the. property, but has entrenched himself with Gatling guns, -.. mitrailleuses, and rifles at his back. The 'State, has been called upon to put the purchaser in possession.
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Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4283, 22 September 1882, Page 3
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214Untitled Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4283, 22 September 1882, Page 3
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