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A newly married couple had juat come from the altar, and were about starting on a bridal tour, as the following conversation took place : The newly married husband took one of his bride'a hands in his own. "Allow me," said he, "thus to hold your baud," for I dread lest you should quit mo. I tremble lest this should be an illusion. It seems to me that I am the hero of one of those fairy tales which amused me in my boyhood, and which, in the hour of hap piness, some malignant fairy steps ever in to throw tha victim iuto grief and des pair." 'Re-ansure yourfelf, my dear Frederic," said the lady. "I was jesterday the widow of Sir JaraeB Melton, and to-day I am Madame de la Tour, your wife. Bauish "from your mind the idea of the fairy. This is not a fiction but a his tory." Frederic de la Tour had, indeed, some reason to uppose that his fortunes were tho work of a fairy's wand ; for, in the course of one or two short months, by a seemingly inexplicable stroke of fortune, he had been raised to happiness and wealth beyond bis defires. A friendless orphan, twenty-five years old, he had been the holier of a clerkship which brought 1 i:a a scanty livelihood, when one day, as he passed along the Rue St. Honore, a rich squipoge stopped suddenly before him, and a young and elegant woman called from it to hira, "Monsieur, Monsieur," she said. At the same time on a given signal, the footman leaped down, opened the carriage door, and iuvited Frederick to enter. He did so, though with some hesitation aud surprise, and the carriage ntarWd off at full ppced. "I have received your note, sir," said the lady to M. de la Tour, in a very soft and sweet voice ; "and, in spite of refu sal, I hope yet to Bee you to-morrow even ing at my party. "To see me, Madame 1" cried Fred eric. Yes, eir, you Ah 1 a thousand pardons," continued she, with an air of confusion. "I see my mistake. Forgive me, sir ! you are so like a particular friend I What can you think of me T yet the resemblance is so ftriking that it would have deceived any one." Of course Frederic replied politely to the apologies. Just as they were terminated the car riage stopped at the door of a Fplendid mansion, and the young man could do no more than ofl'er hie arm to Lady Melton, as the fair staanger announced herself to b. Though English in tiame, tho fair la ly, nevertheless, was evidently of Frinch origin. Her extreme beauty charmed M. de la Tour, and he congratu lated himself upon the happy accident which had gained him such an acquaint ance Lady Melton loaded him with civihiies, and he was not ill-looking; cer tainly, but he had not the vanity to think his apfearance was magnificent ; and his plain and Ecanty wardrobe prevented him from doing credit to his tailor. He accepted an invitation to the party spoken of. Invitations to other parlies followed t and, to bo brief, the young man soon found himself an established visitant at the houBe of Lady Melton. She, a rich and beautiful widow, was encircled by admirers. One by one tbey disap peared, giving way to the poor clerk, who seemed to engross the lady's whole thoughts. Finally, almost by hor own asking, they were betrothed. Frederrc used to look sometimes at the glass which hung in his humble lodging, and wonder to what circumstance he owed his happy fortune. He used to conclude his medi tations by the reflection that assuredly the lovely widow was fulfilling some unavoid able award of destiny. As for his own feelings the lady was lovely, young, rich, accomplished, and noted for her sensibility and virtue could he hesitate? When the marriage contract was eign- ed his astonishment was redoubled, for he found himself, through the Iady'o love the possessor of large property both in England and France. The presence of friends Lad certified and sanctioned the union, yet, as has ben stated Frederic felt some strange fears, in spite of himself, lest all should prove an illusion, and he grasped bis bride's hand as if to prevent her being epirited away from his view. 'My dear Frederic," said the lady, smilingly, "sit down beside ma and let me say something to you." The young husband obeyed, but did not quit her hand. She began, "Once on a time" Frederic started, and halt serious ly exclaimed, '-Heavens! it is a fairy tab 1" "Listen to mo foolish boy," re sumed the lady, "There was once a young girl, the daughter of parents well born, and at one time rtcn, but who had declined sadiy in circumstances. Until her fifteenth year the family lived in Ly ons depending entirely for subsistence upon the labor of her father, borne bet ter hopes sprung up and induced them to come to Paris ; but it is difficult to stop in the descent down the path of mis fortune. For three years the father struggled hard against poverty, and at last died in the hospital. The mother soon followed ; and the young girl was left alone, the occupant of a garret of which the rent was not paid. If there were any fairy connected with the story this was the moment for her appearance ; but none came. The young girl remained alone, without friends or protectors, harassed by debts which she could not pay, and seek ing In vain for some species of employ ment. She found none ; still it was necessary for her to have food; One day passed on which she tasted nothing. The night that followed was sleepless. Next day was again passed without food, and the poor girl was forced into the resolu tion of begging. She covered her head with her mother's veil, the only heritage shu h;id received, and, stooping so to sim ulate age, she went out into tli2 street. When there she held out her hand. Alas ! the hand was white, and youthful, aud delicate. She felt the necessity of cover ing it up in the foils of the veil, as if it had been leprosied. Thus concealed, the poor girl held out her hand to a young woman who passed one more happy than hersdf and asked, 'A sou a single sou to get bread V The petition was un heeded. An old man passed. The tnen dicaiit th u.ht that exporience of the dis- i tresses of life miht have softened one like hira, but she was in error. Experience had only hardened, not 6oftened his heart. "The night was cold and rainy, and the hour had come when the night police appeared to keep the s'reets clear of all mendicants and suspicious characters. At this period the shrinking girl took courage once more to hold out her hand to a passer by. It was a young man. He stopoed at the silent appeal, and di ving into his pockets pullo l out a piece of money, which he threw to her, being ap parently afraid to touch a thing so miser able. Just aa he did this, one of the po lice said to the girl : "Ah 1 I have caught you, have I ? you are begging. To the office with you 1 come along I" "The young man interposed. lie took hold hastily of the mendicant, of her whom he had before seemed afraid to touch, and, addressing himself to the po liceman, said reprovingly: 'This woman is not a beggar. No ; she is she is one whom I know.' But eir, said tho officer . I tell you that she is an aeqjaiu- tance of mine,' repeated the young siran ger. Then turning to the girl, whom he took for an old and feeble woman, he continued : "Come along, my good dame, and per mit me to see you safely to the end of the street." Giving his arm to the unfortu nate girl he then led her away, saying : "Hero is a piece of a hundred sous. It is oil I have take it, poor woman." "The crown of a bunired souj passed from your hnnd to mine," continued the lady, "and as you walked along, sup porting my step3, I then, through my veil, saw yeur face and figure' "My figure!" said Frederic in amazes ment. r , "Yes, my friend, your figure," return ed his wife, "it was to me that yiugave alms on that night. . It was my life my honor, perhaps that you then saved !" "You a mendicant you, so young, so beautiful, and now o rich," cried Freds eric. "Yes, my dearest husband," replied tho lady, "I have in my life received alms once only and from you ; and those alms have decided my fate for life. "On the day following that miserable night and old woman, in whom I had in spired some sentiments of pit', enabled to enter as seamstress in a respectable house. Cheerfulness returned to me with labor. I had the good fortune to become a favorite with the mistress whom I served, and, indeed, I did my best, by unwearied diligence and care, to merit her favor. She was often visited by people in high life. One day Sir James Melton, an Englishman of great property, came to the establishment along with a party of ladies. He returned again. He spoke with my mistress, and learned that I tvtii of good family ; in short learned my whole history. The result was, that he sat down by my side one day aud asked me plainly if I would marry him. "Marry you !" I cried in surprise. "Sir James Melton was a man of sixty, tall, pale and feeble -looking. In answer to my exclamation of astonishment, he said : 4 Yes, I ask if you will be my wife' I am rich, but have no comfort no hap piness. My relatives seem too yearn to see me in my grave. I have ailments which require a degree of kindly care that is not to be bought from servants. I have heard your atory, and believe you to be one who will support prosperity as well as you have adversity. I make my pro posal sincerely, and hope that you will agree to it."' "At that time, Frederie," continued the lady, "I loved you ; I had seen you but once, but that once wbb too memor able for me ever to forget it, and some thing always insinuated to me that we were destined to pass through life together. At the bottom of my soul, I believed this. Yet every one around me pressed me to 1 accept of the offer made me. and the thought struck ma that I might one day make you wealthy. At length my main objection to Sir James Melton's proposal Say in a disinclination to make myself the instrument of vengeance in Sir James' hands against relatives whom he might dislike without good grounds. The ob jection, when stated, only increased his anxiety for my consent, and finally, under the impression that it would be, after all, carrying romanco the length of folly to reject the advantageous settlement offered to me, I consented to Sir James' proposal. "This part cf the story, Frederic, is really like a fairy tale. I, a poor orphan, penniless, became the wife of one of the richest baronets of Sngland. Dressed in silks, and sparkling with jewels, I could now pass in my carriage through the very streets where, a few months before, I had stood in the rain and darkness a mendi cant ?" "Happy Sir James I" cried M. de la Tour, at this part of the story ; "he could prove his love by enriching you." 'He was happy," resumed the lady. "Our marriage, so 6trangely assorted, proved much more conducive, it is proba ble, to his own comfort than if he had wedded one with whom all the para I of settlements, of pin money, would have been necessary. "Never, I believe, did he for an instant repent of our union. T, on my part, con ceived myself bound to do my best for the solace of hia declining years ; and he, on his part, thought it incumbent on him to provide for my future welfare, lie diad, leaving me a large part of his substance as much, indeed, as I could prevail upoa myself to accept. I was now a widow, and from the hour to which I became so, I vowed never again to give my hand to man, exoepting to him who had succored me in my hour of distress, and whose re membrance had ever been preserved in the recess of my heart." But how to dis cover that man ? Ah, unconscious ingrate! to make no endeavor to come in the way of one who sought to love and enrich you ! I knew not your name. In vain I looked for you at b.dls, assemblies, and theatres. You went not there. Ah, how I longed to meet you 1" Aa the lady spoke she took from her neck a ribond, to which was attached a piece of a hundred sou3. "It is the same the very same which you gave me," said she, presenting it to Frederic; "by pledging it I got a little bread fn-rri u neighbor, and I earned enough afterward in timo to permit me to recover it, I vow ed never to part from it. "Ah, Ijow happy I wa, Frederic, when I saw you ia the streets ! The ex cuse which 1 made for stopping you was the nret that rose to my mind But what tremors I felt even afterward, lest you should have been already married 1 In that case you would never have heard aught of this fairy tale, thongh I would have taken some means to eerve and enrich you. I would have gone to Eng land, a::d there passed my days in regret, perhaps, but still in peace. But, happdy, it was to be otherwise. You were single." Frederic de la Tour wa3 now awaken ed, as it were, to the full certainty of his happiness. What he could not but be fore look upon as a sort of freak of fancy in a young and wealthy woman, was now proved to ba the result of deep and kindly feeling, most honorable to her who enter tained it. The heart of the young hus band overflowed with gratitude fend alFec tiou to the lovely and noble-hearted being who had given herself to him. He was too happy for some time to speak. His wife first broke silence. "So, Frederic," said she gayly, "you see that if I am a fairy it is you who has given me the wand the talisman that has effected all!" GRAHT'3 BIOGRAPHY. Biographies (it is said) lie like trmb stones ; and biographers do not try to eli cit truth, but to make of their sometimes homely or positively frightful subjects pre sentable figures. Biographies used to bo considered the staff of literary life, the mental pabulum for the nourishment of aspiring youths ; now they are the cates of intellectuality, and therefore must be made as spicy as possible to tickle the cal lous palates of satiatod readers. Against the biography appended there can bo no positive objection, except that it is too near the truth to be regarded as a chief d'ecuvre of high art i EAKLT LIFE OF GENERALLY USELESS GRANT. This remarkable man was born at a very early age, of distinguished but pious parents, and it is said, on coming into the world, he went into the wailing business, thus clearly showing that he was created especially for fighting battles and wailing his enemies. Becoming tired of wailing, he took a great fancy to the milking bus iness, but in the course of time he became wearied from this, and took to cradling for a living. When he was first boru he had no idea of ever running for President, this remarkable fancy not taking possess eion of him till quite late in life although too late, we fear, to do humans good. It is not positively known whether he is tho real original little boy : "With corks crew-curls and strong Had Eye, Who never, never, never told a lie." or not ; but in the absence of any other little boy claiming to be the original Ja-. cob, we think we may aafely say he was. It waa a ead piece of neglect of his stern parent that he never planted a cherry-tree and left a hatchet lying around promiscu ous!'. If he had, how easy might his son have become a second Father of bis Country. At an early period of his life he cut hi3 teeth on a copy of the Consti tution of the United Stutcs, and a little later on studied strategy from a cheap edition of the American "Hoyle." From this latter book he learned to cut and shuffle in a remarkable manner, and could make his partner believe he was playing for himself. It is a remarkable fact that for the first two years of bis life he never spoke a word, and he hasn't spoken many since. The fir6t word he did say was "pap." Whether this referred to his pa ternal guardian, or to the pap known as official, cannot cf course be told. There seems to be considerable doubt existing as to what his initials (U. S ) Etand for seme contending for the United Slates and others for Unsophisticated Sardine. Nei ther of these, however, are correct. They simply stand for Useless Simpson. Use less, after a celebrated Fenian Emperor, was given him by his grandfather, who was a learned historian and Simpson is after an uncle who still carries on business in the Bowery. Useless' principal amusement in youth was breaking hortcs and breaking wood ; and when he waa only ten years old he could tell a hurse from a mule in about ten minutes, and could break the smallest quantity of wood of any boy of his age. One day, when his father had gone away from Lomo, this obedient boy went to the barn, and putting a bridlo cn the fine three-year-old colt, took him out in the field for the purpose of breaking him. He broke him in just three minutes he broke his neck. For this little joke his father flanked him severely. He was always very fond of driving and taking caro of spirited oxen, and would do any kind of work with them. He took a team one day unbeknown to any one, and going out in the forest, actu ally hiiuled in enough wood to make a re spectable tiro with. With the aid of half a dozen of men he could easily load the biggest log ia the forest ; and furthermore he could stand by all day and look at a man chop it up. Quite early in life he had his counterfeit presentment taken and his head examined by a oelebrated artist and learned phrenologist, who told him he woi'ld undoub:oily one d;iy become president of a debating society. From the fuct of his telling so long beforehand that Usaless wouM ona day become dis tinguished, this learned phreuologist could not possibly have been a pupil of Fowler & Wells. Ia tho company of other boys Useless was very quiet and reserved, tho' on all desperate occasions he was always selected as the leader. But to tell tha truth, he cared very little for the society of boys, greatly preferring to associate with horsea and mules. There is no truth in the report that he was ever a tanbark student, though he always bad a great taete for grand and lofty tumbling (a taste, by the way, which he shortly expects to indulge,) and at one time devoted all his spare moments to carrying water on both shoulders at once, without spilling a drop. Perhaps the re port originated from the following little incident : A circus coming to the place wuere ne uvea, he borrowed a quarter Irom a lellow horse tamer, and went down to see the show. The ring-master, some time during the intellectual and mora! exhibition, offered a" counterfeit $5 bill to any boy who could ride the mule around the ring a certain number of timer. Young Useless immediately accepted the bill, aod jumping into the ring said "he'd ride that mule around if it took all summer." Springing on his back, he busted him over the ear and shouted for him to go on. The mule immediately bolted forward, then suddenly stopped and kicked up be hind and before, and reared up and tum bled over. But all to n purpose. Like the celebrated Roman warrior, Egregious ly Mistaken Stanton, Useless refused to be shook. The ringmaster, seeing his bill was in a fair way of changing hand.-, became considerably riled, and at once left a living cynocephalus loose in the ring. The strange creature immediately jumped up behind young Useless, and got on his bead and in his pockets, and in front of him, and in fact got himself so mixed up with him that it was impossible to tell which was the monkey and which was the futxro great strategist. However, he won the money ; and it is said that even to this day the man owes it to him. Having no taste tor the tanning busi ness, as carried on toward hira by his father, he applied for and obtained admis sion to West Point. Here he was prin cipally remarkable as a good eater and sleeper, and by apylying himself to his studies, soon distanced alt competitors, and, on graduating stood number thirty in a class of thirty-one. It is not positively known whether the thirty-first boy was General Sickle3 or General Schenck. Lieutenant Useless, as he was now cailed, fought and distinguished himself in all the battles of the Mexican War ; and had brigadiers been aa plentiful then as now, he would in all probability have been re duced to that rank in society. What he did in the late rebellion everybody kndws; and if they don't wo advise them to ask any grave-digger in Virginia. Ho ia at present residing at a small city called Washington, under the immediate caro of Mr. Washburnc (who talks in Congress and knows all about him and more, too,) and a celebrated canalist wnom Grant once had a difficulty with about a bottle, and who succeeded in making a beast of himself during the war. These two mor alists, it is said, are going to do something with him, or for him, or for themselves, shortly; but what it is no one knows. The beginning of the little unpleasant ness which has culminated in impeach ment found UselesB Bitting on the fence, with one !eg on either side, indulging in the luxury of a cheap Rapahannock, and deeply engaged in thought, perhaps think ing of the (very) Low-ell statesman and his bottle. But soon becoming hard push ed, he lost his balance and tumbled over into the mire of Radicalism, where he will, in all probability, to usts the elegant word of a learned African resurrectionist, "stick." Useless is said to be a man of great (p)luck ; and from the manner in which he has put up with certain parties at that small city of WaBhirgttn, we should also say of great endurance. But his ideas cf the situation are Radically wrong; and, altogether, we think, ho would make a one-horse President. Tom. Wonder. A Yankee School Marm Down South LOVE I.HTTERS TO HER NEGRO SWTETHEART. The Macon (Georgia) Journal and Mes senfffy gives the following account of a very rich case on trial in the Court at that place : The grand jury of Bibb county were yesterday called upon to investigate a rich case, the facts of which we propose to give in detail. Several tnonth3 ago a white woman by the name of Amanda Fawlcr, thoroughly imbued with love for "the poor down trodden African," came here from the North, and entered upon daty as a teacher of colored children. She had no connec tion with the Lewis High School, but waa running upon an independent scale. In the course of time she met Arthur Edmonds, a black negro fellow, who acta in the capacity of porter at the family grocery Etore of Grier, & Lake, and fell violently in love with him. They carried on a correspondence of the most affection ate, loving and endearing kind, as will be soen by the specimen letters published be low, and often met and billed and cooed together. Things might have thus gone on indefi nitely, and resulted in a permanent union between Misa Amanda Fawler and her dear Arthur Edmonds, if the aforeasid Amanda had not bean guilty of a little piece of moral insanity. On Wednesday last Messrs. Frier & Lake received an or der purporting to have been signed by the lady of a prominent minister. The order was sent by a servant who had been in her employment, and requested the send ing of a ham, a jar of brandy peaches, some coffee and sugar, and several other articles, amounting to eight or ten dollars worth. The clerk gave the note a cursory glance, and, not suspicioning anything, sent the goods as requested. But when he came to copy the orJer into his blotter, it occurred to him that something was not right about it, and that it was in the same hand-writing of Ar thur's love letters which he had been in the habit of reading for that gay JLothario. Calling upon Arthur for a specimen letter (of which be had a pocket full) and com paring the writing with the order, his sus picions were more fully confirmed. It only took a few momenta to confirm them by a conference with the lady from whom it purported to have come, and finally, when Miss Amanda was called upon for an explanation, she acknowledged having written it, but claimed to have soma sort of authority for doing so. This was all stuff. She was at once arrested and sent to jail and at the hour of writing, the Grand Jury is considering a true bill against her which will be returned and tho case tried before J udge Cole at the present term of the Superior Court. Miss Amanda Fawler is about twenty six years of age, is not killed with good looks, but appears to ba a woman of some intlligence. She had been teaching a colored school near the Vineville branch, and says she had eighteen day scholars, and more than that number of night scholars. Arthur has a wife and seven children, who will no doubt read Miss Amanda's loving letters to bim with no small in terest. We copy two letters to "Dear Arthur," as follows : "Macon, Ga., March 26, 1868, "Dear Arthur . As a ray of sunshine across the frozen earth, came your most wel come missive to my poor heart. It was opened and read, and its contents gave me much pleasure to think yoa had not forgots ten me. I hope you net or will, for I never will forget you while I live. Uow can I forget any one that I love so dearly as I do you 1 I had written to you, and when I sent it to the office I received yours, and I hasten to respond to it. The one I sent you last was not directed in care of any one. It was directed only to you. So I think you had best write in your own name. Tte ssn timents of my heart are in it and I want you to get it. I hope you will answer this soon, for I shall look for an answer every day until 1 get one. I want to s.-e you very much. I looked for you at the time you promised to come, but in vain, for I have not seen my dear Arthur. Oh I do come soon. I wish to sae you, to talk with. you. Write to me. and give the sentiment of your dear heart. If I had the Chance I would tell you more than I expect you to wish or hear. Go to the office soon, and get that letter, for I do not want my tetters to stay long enough there to be adrertised. So do attend the office very punctual, and I will do the same. Do come soon, if you please: My dear, don't fail to write to me and offea. As I am in a hurry. I will have to close for this time. I will do better next time. "I am, as ever, yours, most devotedly, "Amakda Fawlfr. "P. S. Write soon. Let me hear from you to-morrow 6ure, if you please." "Ma. Edmonds Dsar Sir : I promised you to let you know when I succeeded in obtaining a room, where it was. It in in the building belonging to Mr. Hollingsworth, the lower room on the street toward the magazine. I do sincerely hope you will come to me soon, for I wish to see you ou some very important business. Please come up here Saturday night, if not before, for I shall look for you until I eo you. I am staying by myself. Bo you must come, for I have a heap to tell yoa. You must taka care of yourself for me, and don't let any girl steal you, for I want you myself. I think you might give mo that much, for you know I love you too good for to let any one steal you from me, you muBt let me see you soon, if you please. I abant sign no name to this, for you know who you saw ou last Saturday evening, and was talking with concerning a room. I close for this time. "I am yours till death." (No signature.) There were three or four more of these "Dear Arthur" letter?, but the grand jury called for them before we could get them copied. We will try to get the balance in duo time, and give them in this column. IF rom the N. Y. Campaign Record. Sturdy Old Hen SoIHoqalzetti. A Rhyming Editorial. Ben Wade sat in his easy chair on the r.ight of the 16th of May, and bis eyes were bright with a re6tless glare, and he swore in his usual way ; damned Fessen den, Fowler, Ross and Grimes, damned the President, damned Jtbe times. Van Winkle he cursed without book or bell, and Trumbull and Henderson sent to hell. As he thought of tho hopes that lured him on, when as yet impeachment waa in its dawn ; of all tho wonders he meant to do, h'13 feet kept up the devil's tatoo, and, like Scott's elfin page, his arms ba tossed and wildly muttered, ''Lost! lost! lost!" for his hopes of conviction were melting away, and ia far perspective the White Hoase lay, and with hopes and purposes foiled and crost, what marvel Old' Ben should cry, "Lost 1 lost ! lost!' "They must vote," said Ben tobimselfj "I hear, in accordance with their convic tions. Thtir convictions, forsooth I" and be laughed and poured forth a torrent of maledictions "conyjetions, indeed from such men of phlegm, why conviction is all we expect from them. Let them perjure themselves for the party's good, it is only proper and just that they should, for I think with Thady, although I don't blurt it out iiKe mm, that it wouldn t hurt, he's a patriot who yields on hia life If ia . r his country's cause on tho field of strife, wnat s ne wno gives up not lite but soul, not the present but future, not part but whole. "To the infernal gods rjen better than Grimes devoted themselves in the olden tims, but be and his fellows, i feared, wouldn't make such a sacrifice, even fcr country's sake, and so it turned out when it came to the vote, for turned was each traitorous miscreant's coat. They have killed the party, they have wrought its fall with their squeamish consciences, d a them all ? To desert us just in the nick of time for paltry scruples, without reason or rhyme. Never before was there treas on so fell 1 Bat they've done their worst, let them go to h 1, the Republican partj is dead and damned" and starting up, for a door was slammed beside him, oil Ben smoothed his wrinkled front, and with something between a sigh and a grunt, ttrode np and down like a wild beast caged, the 6torm that within his bosom raged, breaking forth at times with his tempest tost spirit in cries of "Lost ! lost ! lost 1' Aye, lost!, who'll sum up the grand amount you have lost, far more than you'll ever count. You have loet the chance to retrieve your fame, yoa have lost tha chance of an honest name, the applause of the good, the esteem of the wise, the chance to show to the world you oouldl rise above selfish interest and party spite, still holding policy second to right, loving your country above yourself, ranking prin cipal higher than pelf, private ambition and personal ends, the abasement of foes, elevation of friend?, counting as nothing at all in the scale against justice and truth, which should ever prevail. When yu count what you've gained aod then sum up the cost, no wonder yoa shuddoringly moaaLoBt! lost! lost!" Spice. An ill-bread man a eick ba ker. A poor cook One that kneads dough and instruction at tha same time. Words that burn Rejected newspaper communications. Motto for a hungry roan Dinna forget. A bone of conten tion the jaw bone. Rectified spirits i Spirits of reformed drunkards. Sappers and Miner Boys that gather maple sap. Plagiarism Preaching "Lent" sermons, -A freak of nature has been seen in Arkansas, in the shape cf a man with three ears. One was on each side of hia head, and the third, belonging to another fellow, between bis teeth. The Democratic gain on the popular rote of Oregaa Is three thousand.
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