Etikt denoripHon of Dyeing and Cl"tni"g done on the shortest notice at the Thames Djeing Esttblishtnent, near corner of cUoUuiond 'and Rolleßton»atreeta.—ADVT.
Wintkb clothing, consisting of gentlemen's OTercoats, real macintosh *o\t*,. %'c b>ing sold to suit nil purch-sers at Joseph Moses Thames Cloth Hall.—Advt.
Pr. Livingstone,, in a letter to Benn ptt of the Herald, describes a young knglishmaa who came to Africa with his small fortune of $10,090, bought a waggon and oxen, and outfit chiefly of papier-mache snuff boxes with mirrors in the His, and then travelled 1000 miles inland to Living stono's Station (the explorer was a missionary at that time) filled with an aspiration to buy ivory with his gimcracks and perhaps get to be the chief of some savage tribe. And the speculative youth was quite put out by finding that the barbarians didn't want looking-glaw snuffboxei :;/--:--; :■- '-. ■ '■• ■_• • :■:-
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1750, 12 August 1874, Page 2
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