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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1851, 8 December 1874, Page 3

Gbnts' clothes cleaned, dyed and pressed. Grata' light suits cleaned, ss. 2f.8.—1n fature all goods and orders will only be received at the Thames Dyeing Establishnent, Kolleaton street, Shortland. Self-Protection.—A story from Portland, Maine, seems to show that a young woman of personal attractions may not be altogether without protection even when taking a long walk in a lonely part of the country late in the evening. A young woman, carrying a large bundle, lately missed the last ferry-boat, and determined, nothing daunted, to walk round by Portland-bridge. Of course, she met the inevitable young man, and, of course, he saluted her, ana asked permission to escort her home. H«r reply may be commended to all young women in imilar circumstances. " Sir," said she, "I would not advise you to come near: me unless you have had the smallpox. I i am allowed out only in the evening, and am carrying a bundle of linen from a patient." The young man had not time to be polite. According to the local , newspaper, nothing more was seen of him save and except his coat tails rapidly vanishing from sight in the gloom of the evening, and apparently moving in the direction of Portland-bridge. Romantic Souls.—A marriage took place the other day at Trenton, New Jersey, in the United States, under unusually romantic circumstances. It seems that Colonel Jerusalem Freeze, described as "banker, widower, ex-editor, and patron of literature^ the fine arts, fine horses, and financees," took an immense fancy to a magnificent horse owned by a widow lady who had lately moved to Trenton. Although Colonel Freeze offered a considerable sum for the animal, the widow lady was unwilling to part with it, and reiused to entertain a further bid. After a short but serious reflection the gallant Colonel decided on offering to. take the widow lady as well as the horse, and pushed his suit with such ardour that in three weeks from the date of his first visit to see the horse he and the widow lady were engaged to be married. The Colonel's conduct during the period of his betrothal was marked by the exquisite delicacy and refinement for which he is so remarkable. Two days before the time fixed forth© wedding he arrived at the widow iady's house in a carriage filled with flowers of the choicest varieties, and, accompanied by his intended bride, he visited his former wife's grave,.and decorated the grounds and the handsome monument he had erected to her memory in the most tastefu) manner. The next day the Colonel appeared again at the widow lady's house"in the. same carriage filled with another lot of flowers, and the loving pair proceeded to another cemetery,, where the mortal remains of the widow lady's husband are interred, and in like manner decked the grave of the deceased genjtjeman. Having made these approprurfe peace offerings to the manes of their deceased partners, Colonel and the widow lady were next day married, and started upon their happy wedding tour. " "Who," asks a local journal, "but Colonel Jerusalem Freeze could do up a thing in a style like this! "-^-Pall Mall Gazette. .Lord Braxfield, a Scotch judge, once said to an elegant culprit at the bar, " Ye're a vera clever chiel, mon, but I'm thinking ye wad be npne the waur oVa, hanging." Vegetable Philosoeh^.—Sage adk vice. Fbov the Press.—" That s my imr pressionjv said a printer, when he had kissed bis sweetheart.