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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1713, 30 June 1874, Page 2

To SPOBT3MEX.—For some time past Powder, Shot, Caps and every requisite hayo been Selling at Cheapest Rates by J.S. Hart, "The Thames Gunmaker," in butincis as such on this field since 1868. He thanks the community for their patronage, especially ■ince resuming business for himself. Any Grun work done in the competent manner of twenty years' practical experience, also cheap rates. A select stock of Guns, Shot Pouches, Powder Flasks, &c, &c, ex Chile &c, others B ortly to arrive. Every thing purchased «fc first cost, and Belling with this advantage. J.S. Hart, Gunmaker, Pollen-street Central. —Advc.

Dbied oysters are among imports into San Francisco from China. 1 They are simply taken out of the shell,, dried in the sun, and packed in wooden boxe!^ The Chinese are the principal consumers. The editob of a Maryland paper, in a peppery article anent the arguments of a. rival editor, affirmeth, and also oflereth. tq prove, that hii soul—his nasty, little scml —is not lapse enough to fill the socket of a mosquitoes eye! _ A Weitee of a love tal*, in describing his heroine, says: " Innocence dwells in the rich curls of her dark hair,'' A critic, commenting on this passage, says, " Sorry to hear it; we think it stands a perilous chanoe of being combed out." Synonymous.—Drill Instructor—Now, IV explained the different "sights." You, Private Dumpy, tell me what a fino " sight " is ; describe it as well as you can, Private Dumpy—A fine sight, sir ? A fine sight—(pondering) ' s a magnifi. cent 1 sp'tacle, sir. " Me Speakeb, " exclaimed a member of the Georgia Legislature, "my opponent m this discussion tries, to make us think he is. wise by looking grave; but, sir, his gravity is no more evidence of his wisdom than his lmen collar is evidence of a clean wire.