Frame tHe "Norti-Cura Dairy News," or DECEMBER 29, 1877
I begin to think that the French "coppers" now so extremely circulated must come from the churches. A parson friend of mine showed me the contents of his collection-bags "the other day. Among a ruck of sixpences, threepenny-bits, and pence, we lighted on the following coins of foreign extraction—13 French sous, 2 n sous, 3 German kreutzers, a Swiss franc, an italian lira, a whist counter, and, I grieve to say, 3 trouser buttons. And these in a small but not, it would seem, wholly righteous congregation. The collection, however, it is only fair to State, was for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.
The P. & O, S. N. Co.'s s. Teheran took the following "silk: for London, 898 bales, Lyons 100, Marseilles 85. Milan 50. Bombay 99. Singapore 10—total 1.502 bales, and 29 bales waste silk for London,
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