The proprietor of an English paper called "Tit Bits" has started a new system of life insurance. He promises to pay £100 to the next of kin of any person who is killed in a railway accident, proTided a oopy of the current issue of "Tit Bits" is found upon the deceased at the time of the accident. The first payment was made at the end of July to the Widow of a man named Long. .
A desperate faction fight has occured at Athlone on the renewal of an old fend between the men of Moateand Mount Temple. Sticks and stones were used, and the fighting lasted an hour,, until stopped by the police. The rioters then escaped to another part of the town, and the fighting was renewed. A large number of heads were broken. One man wai hurled bodily though a plateglass window,
It is a mean wretch who will slyly drop a hair-pin in a car loaded with women, ana then smile as he sees every woman make a grab for the back of her head when the notices it.
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Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5224, 15 October 1885, Page 2
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183Untitled Thames Star, Volume XVII, Issue 5224, 15 October 1885, Page 2
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