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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4401, 10 February 1883, Page 4

The " Friend's Review " (the chief organ of the Society of Friends in the United States) Bays :—" Since Kansas has prohibited liquor, its prisons are emptied. Its Bate penitentiary has been opened as a boarding-house, and the authorities offer to takeconvicts from New Mexico on board for 1 doL 40c. a week." '

Says the Londop Sporting and Dramatic News :—" An article, specially interesting to cricketers, is to appear in the -January number of Longman's Magazine. Mr ■W. L. Murdoch, captain of the Australian Eleven, has written a paper, giving his opinion on the art of batting, and a sketch of the rise of Australian cricket, with, no doubt, criticisms on what he has seen of cricket in England."

The following, which shows how the "doctrine" is instilled into people, is from the Medical Times:—Visitor: *'Y<ur boy looks very bad, Mrs Jones. What is the matter?" Mrs Jones: " Vps, ma'am, he be very bad; and what's more, the doctor has made him worse. I'm sure we poor people ought to pray with all our he art—' From all false doctorin, good Lord deliver us." I never saw its meaning afore." ;

Melbourne at night is like Cologne— famous for its thousand and one disagree" able smells. \

A Chinese coin,, 3,000 years old, has been found by gold miners digging a claim at Cassiar, British Columbia. It ia supposed to have been left there, by Chinese sailors wrecked on the coast long before the Christian era.

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