From a Booksellers' Catalogue:--

"PLUTARCH: His Life, his Parallel Lives, and his Morals. 3/6."

So spicy a story is surely cheap at the price.

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"The cause of the explosion is unknown, but it is assumed that

some combustible matter was among the coal."--_Daily Dispatch_.

It is only fair to some of the coal merchants to say that they take

great pains to reduce this danger to a minimum.

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