Sure of It — 572
A coloured individual in New York, who was hit on the side of his head by a rotten tomato which a mischievous boy threw at him, placed his hand on the spot, and finding some red liquid upon it that he supposed was blood, dropped upon the pathway, and exclaimed in the anguish of his heart, “I’se a dead nigger dis time, sure!”
A Boston paper contains this advertisement:—“A great bargain. To all who may enclose one dollar I will send, post paid, a finely-cut engraved portrait of George Washington, the Father of his Country, together with an elegant portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Either separately at four shillings. Address, H. C. C., —— Street, Boston.” The fellow actually sent back a three-cent and a one-cent postage-stamp, ornamented with the finely-engraved heads!