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Show IN FOREIGN STYLE. I Tho following advertisements appear in a H rocont number of tho Liverpool Morcury, and H may give tho Weekly's readers an idea of the H fashion of Iho "classified ads" in a concontional H British papor: H Exporioncod General Wanted, ago about 25; H good waqo; no washing. Holdorness, H "Hoathloa," Ashton-undor-Lyno. Soa. Sea Outfits-r-Paronts and Guardians H who inland sonding their boys to soa, and H who livo'at a distance from Liverpool, should M in tho first placo, communicate with tho H Don, Lord-street, and got thoir Detailed List of Apprentices' Soa Outfits; or if in town, H call and oxnmino tho goods displayed in ( their shipping department. Being manu- faoturors, complete outfits can bo had at wholesale prices and ranging from tlt 10, H 15, 20 upwards. Price lists and full par- ticulars will bo sent post free on application H to tho Shipping Department, tho Don Asso- H H ciation, Lord-sLrcet and Paradise-street, j Livorpool. H And this is a "hoi" news item from the H same enterprising paper: H Bass Ruck Island, in Uio Firth of Forth, has boon Iho scono of an cxtonsive flro, j which has destroyed most of the vegetation j on the island. H Tho flro is supposed to have broken out H late on Monday night or early on Tuesday j morning, and it is stated to have originated H from a rocket fired on to tho island from a j passing passonger steamer with tho object H of gotting tho myriads of Solan gCeso to H rise -from their nesting places. All efforts H on the part of tho lighthouse keepers on j tho island to subdue tho conflagration proved j unavailing, and many acres of sun-dried H grass and herbage burned fiercely all day. j Thousands of Solan geese and other sea H birds spared about tho island screaming H frantically from time to time. Rabbits in H very largo numbers have boon destroyed by H the fierceness of the flro, which could be H seen thirty miles away. H In the courso of tho aftoruoon, with tho H destruction of almost all the vegetable matter H on tho island, tho ilro spent itself, and the H wholo of tho south sido of the island pre- j scnts nothing but an oxfonsho blackened H mass of waste. H Luckily the now lighthouse, which stands H on the lowest ridge of rocks and far below H the scene of tho outbreak, has suffered in H no way. H These are commerce and information. Here H is the Mercury's idea of humor: H From a notice in tho Hotel Hassler, H Naples: H "Ring once for the chambermaid, twice H for the porter, throe limes for the boot." H At the third ring, you soo, tho proprietor H is seriously annoyed. H One of the doctors at this woek's inter- H national congress in London romarked that H the danger of operating had been reduced to H "vanishing point." No allusion, of course, H to the all too frequent appearance of those H significant words in tho obituary column, H "after an operation?" |