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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1807, 17 October 1874, Page 3

UNFINISHED STILL.

A^by'« boot and skein of wool, JTaded and soiled andisoft: Odd tiling" you may say, and I doubt yeu're .. ' 'rijjh6,' " :" f ■'--■'' # '„"."'■'. •.,/.: ...",:'. Bound a seamen's neck this stormy night, Up in the yard« aloft. • Mo#tflike it'• folly ; bht, mate, loci litre : ;. Whtn first I Trent to soa r • ' : A woman stood on yon far off etr&nd, -'.- Wiih the -wedding-ring on the small soft hand "Which cluDg b» close to me. ? My wife—God bless her! The day befwo Sb%Rat beiide my foot j 7 Aadpps sunlight kissed her yellow hair, And the dainty fingers delf and fair, • .■> knitted a baby's boot. Th» royag» was or»r: I came on shore j What think you I found tbure ? A gra-^e tho daisies had sprinkled white, A cottage empty and dark as night, And this beeid* the chair: Tke lilkle boot, 'twas unfinished still; Th« tangled skein lay bear; Butthe knitter had gone away to rest, With the bab* asleep on her quiet breast, js^^Dowii in. the churebjard clrtar.

A Paper "mill"—a fight between rival jonrals. Abgument-Pm-; ad Absurdum.—Fare— "Drive t n * faster, Cabby ■!" Jehu— '• "Can't, sir; streets is greasy." Fare— •^ That's just why you ought to slip along ! " - - A Boston school-boy, who was directed to write a composition on " Riches," handed in this :' " Soopaseyerl gitverry rich in deed golly won't I act Jenny Unas."

Some, poets; at - a literaryrelub :• were; discussing "the best time to bring out new pocms'^when an editor volunteered this remark: "About the-year:three thousand will be a first rate time."

An Irishman, who had just landed at New Wbtk, said: «',Th«ifirst bite .of mate I ever ate in this couatry was a roasted Eotato, boiled yeiterday ; and if you don't elieve mt, I can ekovr it to you, for I have it in my pocket." : Andrew Jackson, when President of the: United States, was: accused of bad spelling, but John Randolph defended him by declaring that " a man must be a fool who could not spell a word more ways than one." „ Some men never lose their presence of miad. In Milkwaukee a man threw his mother-in-law out of the window from the fifth story of a burning building and ■" lifted up)tenderly" aAftatherbed, which he carried down stairs safely in his arms.