Would-' be contributor :• " I wish you would tell me something to write About." Editor: "Well! Right about face," A Yankee wanted the Bridge of Sighs pointed out to him, and then offered to bet America had several bridges twice, the siste, _ . The Geasshoppebs Again.—The advent of the grasshoppers causes our entire social fabric to tremble. " Maria," writes a young Minnesota farmer to his girl down in Maine, " I'm afraid we can't get married this year; the grasshoppers threaten* to clean out my crop." . . Delicate Cbeatubes and Theje Appe? tjte^.—The Detroit Free Press man has just returned from Saratoga. He sayi, ••' The Saratoga belles merely taste food at. the table, but fee the waiters to bring a square meal up the back stairs." Coming Down to Beauty,-—-It was " Darling. Qweorge" when a bridal pouple left Omaha; it was " dear George •' at Chicago; at Detroit it was. " George," and when they reached Niagara Fall it was •' Say, you."
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1880, 12 January 1875, Page 2
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156Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1880, 12 January 1875, Page 2
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