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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4701, 31 January 1884, Page 2

Stage robberies in Mexico were 'even until lately very frequent, but at the time of the French occupation of the StaMfrhey were of almost daily occurrence. To fat a stop (o these continual robberies the French commander hit upon a capital idea. Half-a-dozen Zouaves were dressed in ladies' attire, closely veiled, and sent as passengers in the next stage. They carried their carbines beneath the folds of their dress. As was expected, the mail was stopped, and the " ladies," leaving with the other passengers, drew up in line, as was the custom, a few paces from the vehicle, while the searching was going on. Suddenly the " ladies " raised their carbines and performed the strangely un« feminine act of shooting stone dead some dozen rohbers. It is perhaps needless to add that this served as a warning to the stage robbers on that route at least, it being only necessary from thenceforth to display a shawl and a bonnet to secure a comfortable passage. A Double Loss.—" Sejaorito," said a washerwoman t? a needy poet, " I don't know how it happened, bat I have lost your shirt in the river." "I am sorry, aa you have thus lost two things at once."-'' " How, two things ? There was only one - shirt!"." Exactly. As it was mm quJ w. one, you have lost both the shirt customer." >ir&. ''\ Flies and Btraa, Beetles, insects, toti^fi ants, bed-bugs, rats, mice, gopheri,; jack, rabbits, cleared out by " Kough on lUt«>-i Momi f Mom & Co.. Sydney, General A|enU t