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Thames Star, Volume VI, Issue 1864, 23 December 1874, Page 2

■ The Mammoth.—it rumour from Bus* ■ia to the effect that the mammoth is cot am extinct animal has set naturalists on the alert; and should it prove true that living mammoths are now to be seen in the deep' gorges of the Lena, in far Eastern Siberia, we may anticipate that expeditions will be sent out to capture a few of the huge animals for the zoological gardens of It urope. According to the rumour, the discovery was made by one of the convicts who had been transported to that distant region. That the mammoth once abounded in Siberia is well known; for thousands of mammoths, whose tusks supply much of the ivory used in the arts, are there eirbedded in the frozen ground.—Chambers'

Said Young America to: his papa; " Pa be you a Britisher !" "Yes, my son, I was born in England." "Well) we whipped you,". retorted the, youngster. ! Affections to little girls do not bury their dolls nowadays. They -cremate - them; and keep the ashes in a toy sugar bowl. :- '' A Detroit father keeps his boy in, nights by varnishing a chair and sitting him down. I(&-a.novel.plan, but awful tough on the $*¥- *~~ -: «g asked how much saver Srrou& lie ji«^. put up; for winter use, replied :*" I'ze not got mucla; little more as ten barrels—shust'for sickness."

A New York paper gravely observes that the suicide of a farmer, which it noti* ces,.-"is singularly strange, inasmuch he was nofc in the habit of doing such things." !