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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1837, 21 November 1874, Page 3

How' to Get a Phettv Piptube-Book. —In a school a teacher recently took ocpasiDD vo relate an anecdote of a little girl whotip'to "overcome evil with good ' by eilrog a pretty picture-book to a b°y who had ill-treated her. The story was appreciated, for, a few minutes afterwards, one boy struck another, and, on being asked the reason, said he was trying to get a pretty picture-book. This was a practical bearing altogether unexpected. Horace Greeley's " copy," as » wellknown, was a continuous string of riddles for the unfortunate compositors engaged on the paper of which he was proprietor —riddles they often solved in a way not exactly conducive to the propounders serenity. When, in exposing lome Congressional malpractices, Greeley^ wrote, "'Tis true, 'tis pity, and pity tis tn true," the familiar quotation appeared jfc the un-Sbaksperean guise, " Tis two, tis ftfty, and fifty 'tis, 'tis five! 1 A leader

upon William H. Seward came forth headed " liichard the Third." When ■Greeley alluded to certain electors as " freemen in buckram," the printer turned them into " three men in a back-room."

Heb Vebsiox .6>p thb Affair.—- A Scotchman thus recenty addressed his daughter :—" Fat's this I here ye're gaun to dee, Jennie? " " Weel," she replied, " I'm just gaun to marry that farm ower by there, and live wi' the bit mannie on'fc." .

Coloubud Impudence.—A Cleveland paper asserts that sevan young men, accompanied by ladies, were recently stopped in Erie Street in that city, by a coloured woman who asked them for " a dollar and forty cents dat you owe me for washing." Each gentleman, in his confusion, paid,the amount which he did not owe.