CALEDONIAN CO.
This company, from recent crushing of 100 tons stuff, obtained 114 ounces 3 dwts gold, which is a vast improvement on previous crushings for a long time.
Evesy description of Dyeing and Cleaning done on the shortest notice at the Thames Dyeing Establishment, near corner of Richmond and Rolleston-streets. —Advt.
Winteb Clothing, consisting of Gentlemen's Overcoats, Real Mackintosh Coats, are being sold to suit all purchasers at Joseph Moses, Thames Cloth Hall.—Advt. Head Lights.—Ladies' bright eyes. A Loan Woman. —A female pawnbroker. . A Gbeat Object in Life.-—A giant. A Papee Containing Pine Points.— A paper of needles. Motto fob a Cat Show.—Come to the scratch. An old Scotchman used to say, " I'm aye open to conviction, but I have riae yet seen the mon that can convince me." A placard in a barber's shop window announces, " Boots blacked inside. n Must it not be very bad for the stocking? . " Where are you going?" playfully asked a nice boy of one that had fallen into the muddy road. " Going to get up," was the answer with a growl. " Dear me, how fluidly he talks ; " exclaimed Mrs. Partington. "I am alwayi rejoiced when he mounts the nostrils, (or his eloquence warms every cartridge in my body.' 1 A tomb-stone in Arkansas bears the following legend, evidently the tribute of a devoted yet discriminating husband :— She washed the children, Fed the fowls, And made her home Resound with howl*. " For twenty long years," said a writer in a New Jersey paper, " the wolf stood at this poor widow's door." " "What a shame!" remarked a Connecticut journal. "To keep even a wolf standing out in the cold so long, is nothing less than, cruelty to animals."
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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1815, 27 October 1874, Page 2
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284CALEDONIAN CO. Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1815, 27 October 1874, Page 2
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