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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1730, 20 July 1874, Page 3

"' A Medical writer says " the healthiest poiition to lay in ia >with the head to the north." People tvho own liens should , bear this fact in mind. * Another, paper has felt itself called upon to correct an error of the types. It ■»ys-T-'' For one of the worst of men, read One of,the wisest.'' ,'.'_ "Please don't shoot the cows," is a sign ou a farmer's fe&ce on some marsh land a l." few, miles from a town in Sussex; the sign >. is intended for sportsmen who go out snipe shooting.* ' , '

i "He winnowed her into Paradise with a fence-rail" is the last phrase for wifemui'f'er. Jiovv xo Defeat tite Bailiffs. —When Carter, tho Lion King, was exhibiting with I'ucrow afc Astley's a manager with whom Carter had made, and broken an engagement issued a writ against him. The'bailiffs came to tho I stage Uoor, and asked for Carter. " Show the gentlemen, upstairs," said Ducrow. 1 * When they] reached,tho stago, there sat Carter com- 1 poSedly in the great cage,- with 1 an enormous lion on each side of him, J " There's Mr. Carter waiting jfor'you,;gentlemen,'' said' Ducrow'; "go inland' take him. Carter, my boy, open the door/ ?i' Carter proceeded to obey, at the rame time eliciting, by .pnvate signal, a tremendous roarj from his' conipahidij*. • ThW 'tfaififfs stag-; gored back in terror, and, rolled over! each other as they rushed down stairs. ; Two Highlandmen were taking an; afternoon's stroll in a public park, and' came upon a placard bearing the an-j nouncement, ■" No dogs allowed here."; "Whatnonsense! exclaimed oneof them; after spelling it over, "do they think that; dogs can read that ? " '• Och, Sandy,' man," replied the other, ''we dinna ken; what gentleman's dougs can do.' X '