"Away, sir J" indignantly exclaimed an Oakland girl to her swoel heart the other day. v Didn't [ tell you that so long as. tobacco aud whiskey touched jour lipa you should ne-rer kiss mino?" " Yes, you (hie) did," said the de moralised youth, feeling for his haf, " and thi3 is (hie) what a fellow gets for (hie) using nothing but a dirty pipe and (hie) taking- hia bitters through a glass tube. You girls dbu'fc know what you. do waut." The oaly safe way to bofc on boat races, or any other races,' is to take the money aud bay a farm.
TI-IE WHEAT CROP. Melbourne, January 10. Tiust has destroyed a quarter of tho vheat crop. THE SAILORS' STRIKE. Sydney,' January 10. The seamen demand wages from the late of the strike ; further difficulties . ii consequence. ENGLISH CRICKETERS. Hobartowm, January 10. The first iuniners of the English Sloven closed for 183. The Hobartown Eighteen, in their first innings, scored 32 ; -and iv the second innings two are 3Ufc for 19.
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