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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3163, 8 April 1879, Page 3

A Detboit grocer, who has little time to study human nature, and who would have saved money if he only had a little more time, wrote a note to several parties selected for the occasion to the efiect that he had lost his account books, and must depend upon their honor to call and give in the balance against them. One of them replied that he presumed he owed 3 or 4 dol., when the books showed that he owed 28 dol.; another thought there might be a possible balance against him, though he had been very careful to pay cash, and yet his account was 14 dol. and over. Out of twelve or fourteen customers, the grocer found one who replied that be owed 3.80 dol., being fifty cents too much. He then wrote to each that ho had found his books, and sent statement of account; and as they dropped into tbe store, one at*time,each laughed, shook bands, and remarked: " I knew it was one of your jokes, of course, and so I thought I'd give you a chance to play it clear through."—Detroit Free Press.

A toung English clergyman in a country parish thus reveals some of the Becrefcs of the clerical prison-house: — "Oh, there are four of us whose churches are neighbours, and we have a whist party erery week, and the loser writes the Sunday s^mons. for the party."