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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2075, 28 August 1875, Page 4

„ The Puff Theatrical, -r- An ambitious lady writes from lowa, in an; illegible hand, to inquire^how much it •will cost her. for-the Chicago Tribune.editorially to endorse 1 the following :■--" Miss Augusta Moore, the lecturess. is quite young, possesses jafine mental culture; few ladies on 'the stage equal her, and none surpass her; she is the jewel of the stage."-... ,^; : ,-.:/■.■,.:.,■/,/;. / ' ; Mare Twain ok : Chambermaids-—-Against all chambermaids, of whatsoever age or nationality, launch the curse of bachelordom., They put your bpoti into 'inaccessible places. They chiefly enjoy; depositing them as far under the* bed as the wall will permit. They always put the match-box in dome other pface. They hunt up a, new place for it every day, and put a;bottle or other perishable glass thing where the box stood' before. This I will disgust you. They like that. No matter where you put anything, they won't let it stay there. They 'will take it and move it the first chance they get. "And they use more oil'than six men., They keep always coming to make your bed before you get up, thus destroying - your rest; but after you get up they gon't come any more till the next day. The Nursling ov the Storm.—A man dressed in a sailor costume was in a criminal court upon a charge of stealing a pair of boots. As he had no council the court appointed a young lawyer to take charge of the defence. The lawyer opened the c.ase with a speech, in which he spoke of his client as " a child of the sad sea waves, a nursliig of the storm, whom the pitiless billows had cast a forlorn and friendless waif upon- the shores of time after a life spent in fierce and heroic contest with the raging elements." Then an acquaintence of the defendant was put in the box, and the fact was revealed that he was cook upon a canal boat, previous to which he had hawked fish in Whitechapel, The ""■ritfraling of the storm" is now in gaol for six months. - Tall Eloquence.~A fine specimen of figurative writing is published by the "Crescent Monthly, in an article on Lee's surrender. The writer, remarked that " the supreme hour was how come when from across Fame's burning ecliptic, where it had traced in flaming sheen its luminous path of glory, the proud Aldebraa of the Southern hope, in all the splendour of its express Hyades brightness, should sink to rest behind lurid war clouds in the fateful western heaven, there to bring out on heath's dark canopy tjie' immortal lights of immortal deeds, ancfopirits great and glorious, shining look ever down upon a cause in darkness, like the glittering hosts upon a world in night.