Wixtbb clothing, conii.sting of gentlemen's I overcoats, real ■ macirifcoik < tbats, are being ' ■old to euit allpurchaMM at Joieph Moses > Thames OlotK Hall.—Adtt." ; i.; it ; Shobt.—-" Linger not,: darling, stie said to him, as he stood on the porch pressing her hand before he' bade her -farewell for the evening. t He did not linger. *He saw the old man com-' ing up the street at a rapid gait. He lingered only long enough to pull his hat! 4own over his pyes, spit on his hands, and bound actirely for the sidewalk. • ADanbuby Woman.—A hot-tempered ; Danbury woman, who find 9 considerable. trouble in persuading her husband to, furnish kindlings, and then is obliged to : do it herself, read in a religious paper,) Monday, of how a wlfeinduced a wicked, husband to become one of the most affec* tionate and hopeful of men, by being in- ' variably calm with him. The story made, a deep impression upon her, and when; she made the fire that noon she put a pairof rubbers among the wood. Then she' .tied, a handkerchief across her nose,, and < wont on with her work. When the ,hus-: band reached the gate he paused, fetched, • a sniff that made a hole in the atmosphere, ftiid then went round to the baok of the house a.nd.fe^chedanother sniff that had; an equal damaging effect on the atmosphere : he stared into the next yard and" up at his own house, and felt in his: pockets/and was about to go round the' front again, when his wife thrust herj head out of the window, and'said, > l Why don't you come into the house, yon old, fool ? Come in and get' your dinner, and let me read an article to you from thd Christian Secretary, poi&e in and see, how' nice it is to get dinner with nothing to burn but rubbers, you white sepulchre; ' Come in here, I tell you, before I loose " mytemper and say what I oughtn't to." M this invitation he went in, going upon the stoop and to the door, Tery slowly; but, upon opening the door, he. disappeared inside with marvellous' suddenness. The peishbqurs say ho was cutting w*pod all that afternoon, and, thinking ol> ih'p religious pressi ' j
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Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1762, 26 August 1874, Page 3
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371Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Thames Star, Volume IIII, Issue 1762, 26 August 1874, Page 3
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