A Cubious Stoby.—A Calcutta correspondent tells a story of what occurred 'at a dinner-table there a few nights since. i" Th© party were discussing a dish of i [boiled auck and oyster sauce, an extra-! ordinary combination which I never heard [of .before, but there is no accounting for ( ta*tes. One of them took a large mouthful 'of oyster sauce, and i'elt two hard iub[stances in it. At first he thought they [might be shot, but on examination they! jwere found to he pearls, worth about ten rupees each. Cleopatra's lover took his' pearl in a cup of wine, but; it has been' preserved for modern humanity to attempt lit in oyster sauce.
| A Kansas paper, sneering at the stupidity of a contemporary, says, " The best thing he has got off this week is a dirty shirt." ,
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1910, 16 February 1875, Page 2
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