Calling v things by their right names. —It isn't always best to call, things by their right names. A young gentleman called a carriage dog a Dalmatian hound, and was informed by his fiance* that if he could not refrain from profanity in her presence they must henceforth be strangers—American paper.. , . , - . . Thb Whiskt WAB.--The raid of the Ohio women on the whisky saloons, has been the occasion of a great many jokes* One paper,says,."lt isisaidof the temperance' crusaders that 'they drink not, neither do they sii*; y«t SolomOninalj his glory, was not a raid like one pf them.'" In another one we read; "!S. German saloon-keeper in Millersburg says : • Yen I goes in my bed I sleeps npt goot. I dreams in my head datlheer? dem vimens brayin^ and singing in mine ..ear? Dat Je?us: lotcJi m». ppt bodders me so I got right straight up and talk on de floor and take another glass of beer." " M
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1759, 22 August 1874, Page 2
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158Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1759, 22 August 1874, Page 2
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