Hens May Join Unemployed Ecos have become so cheap ili West Frankfort, Illinois, that one grocer gave: away 500 dozen of them Fecently to his customers in an effort to stimulate business. The reg-Uular retail price was 15 cents a dozen.
laying spree by hens, due to the Warm Weather, was given as the Reason for the' low prices. In Centralia. eggs sold down to 11 cents dozen, the lowest price in seventy-five years, From the Vasty Deep Tne captain of a Canadian schooner has just arrived back at Halifax with the sad news that his vessel foundered off the Massaeliusotts coast with 4,700 cases of Tiquor, "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." (Shakespeare, who was dubious of getting an
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