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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1800, 9 October 1874, Page 3

What's in a Name ?—One of the most guileless ministers in Scotland, an intimate friend of Dr. Gruthrie's, was named Blackadder.

An Gswego paper describes a fire by 'saying that "the red flames drinced in the Jbearens and flung their fiery arm about like a black funeral pall, until Sam Jones got on the roof and doused them outfwith a pail of water.'' This Missikg Tortoise.-—" Why, cook, I declare! here comes the long lost tortoise Uncle Philip gave us last year! And ont of the coal-celler, of all places in the sworld I"1^ Eor T MistG&a^jis|that the tortoise! 1 ■ WliyVi'fr* been a-wsin' of *'im all through the winter to break the coals with !"—Punch.

Afpectiostate Epitaph.—The parents of a young officer who was killed in a duel have placed a monument over is remains, with this inscription :~^-''.Escapeid the bullets of the enemy to be assasinated by a cowardly pup—a kind husband,/an affectionate father." ,:. ; -r,.-:~^; : -i?r ; ";., %;r\