INVERNESS.
Burny and party have finished crushing for the yield of loz lldwte 12grs gold. .
An orator at a Sunday* school concert some time since, is said to have desoribed the origin of amusement somewhat af follows: "In Greece, during the times of Julius Caesar, about eight hundred years before Christ, certain days.were set apart for marrying, giving in marriage, and wrestling, and from these we get the idea of our modern Sunday-school conoerts. A man with one eye laid a wager that he (the one-eyed saw more than the other. The wager was accepted.—" You hare lost," says the first; "I can see t# ejoi in your face, and you oan only see oP£§b mine."
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3042, 14 November 1878, Page 2
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116INVERNESS. Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3042, 14 November 1878, Page 2
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