"Don't you think she's pretty?' said the fond mother to the father, as she 'stroked the baby's silken hair. The father was in a sulky mood, something had disagreed with him, and he replied somewhat curtly, " Oh, all babies are alike. They look like little monkeys." Just then a . neighbor entered, and taking the baby on • her lap, said: "Mercy on us! how like its father that child is 2" The Indiana judges stand no nonsense from the bar. A lawyer there lately in the course of .his argument used tbo word . .disparagement. "Stop using Laling words, orUitdown," said the. judge. The poor lawyer, undertaking to explain, was ruthJeisly fined 2Odpli, for contempt,' ,
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Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4922, 18 October 1884, Page 4
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113Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4922, 18 October 1884, Page 4
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