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Saturday Advertiser, Issue 29, 29 January 1876, Page 7

“In modern Greece, says a traveller, ** no lady’s visit is admitted by the lady of the house if the visitress does not bring .her work with her, without which the visited would be obliged to remain idle, which is neither more nor less than a sin. The custom is worthy of emulation, and we should like to see it universally adopted. Black-looking and Cutting. —The English Government, distrusting the miners in South Wales, have disbanded two batteries of Volunteer Artillery, The communication accompanying the order is alleged to assign as a reason that the Government consider that the men of the district “ cannot better serve Her Majesty in time of war than by cutting coal.” It is feared that other corps in mining districts will be disbanded.

Inconsistent, very. —The Lord Mayor of London lias not invited the representatives of Honduras, Costa Rica, and Paraguay to liis state dinner as usual, because these states have failed to repay their loans. But he has not forbidden the city big-wigs, who made immense fortunes by the floating of these swindling loans. Steal half-a-crown, and you are sent to Bridewell, to fare on bread and water. Put half a million of other people’s money in your pocket by questionable transactions, and you are a welcome guest at the turtle feast as a successful speculator.