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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1789, 26 September 1874, Page 2

Apt Name—"Not far from this city," writes the provincial correspondent of a contemporary, "lives a gentleM^rho is the father of seven grown-up aanghters. They are rather lively girls. ! The father is an admirer of Hawthorne, and he calls his house 'The House of the Seven Gabblers.'" .■-■

Novel Vaccination. —A husband in Maryland opened a letter addressed to his wife to see if her uncle in England had left her a fortune. She happened to surprise him in the act, with a clothes stick in her hand, and notr he tells his friends that the mark over his left eye is where he was vaccinated.-—American paper. ,

Marriage Relations.—The passion for family lineage and notoriety reached its acme a short time since. A country damsel, inquiring about her London ad* mirer's friends, received the following promise from him—" The next time yer missus let's yer hay' a 'oliday I'll take yer to Madame Tooiawd's and show yer my brother." The brother had been hanged. for murder, and his effigy was in the " room «f bjQrrora."