Untitled

Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1728, 17 July 1874, Page 3

< If an Indian takes cold, he is liable to have the whooping cough. \ Affecting.—-The following epitaph on a tombstone in a graveyard on the eastern shore 6f "Maryland, touchingly cbnimemorates the sad fate of a husband and the sorrow'ofhis afflicted widow:— ; ;' ■" Almira,' sorrowing, rears this marble slab ■ , CTohsr dear Ike, who died of eating crab." ! An Up-cottntbt Magistrate.—The Southerii Argus is responsible for the following:—A J.P. was, with some brother justices, adjudicating in a case of pettjr" larceny one day. The prisoner,; when being baptised, was blessed with; the name of Henry, and it happened in thii instance, as it frequently does, that this, magistrate, who, by the way, was , chairman of the court, and Henry were at one time what is termed." old cronies." Tite larceny case was closed, the magistrates, held the usual consultation for, 10 minutes or so, and then the chairman, addressing, the prisoner, said, " Well; Henry, you leave this court without a stain upon your character; still, for all that, we must give you three months." A citjr merchant invited several wellknown literary characters to dinner some -time ago, to meet a large party. Two of the " book-builders " arrived somewhat early, and began conversing together, when their host rushed up to them, and exclaimed, "Not, y«t gentlemen; not . yet, if you please.. Do wait till some more of the company have arrived." '■,