ly as a dear gift to them. Tf you could hear them, as I have heard them, read aloud at the family 

 table until father and mother and the youngsters were all in a roar, and in offices and u , and at 

 the corner of streets, and seen what a ripple of laughter followed your little papn wherevei it 

 went, I feel that you would realize that your "labor was not in vain." 



I am yours truly, \V. II. II. Ml'KRAY. 



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EXTRACTS FROM LIFE IN DANBURY. 



AN UNPLEASANT DISCOVERY. 



DR. TRALL, of Philadelphia, has made a very unpleasant discovery. In about seven years, 

 Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune will approach nearer the earth than they have been in eigh- 

 teen hundred years, and the result will be a pestilence. When Congress has the manliness to make 

 astronomy an indictable offenee, then we shall have relief from these things, but not before. It was 

 not a long while since that some one predicted that the earth would be swamped with a deluge, and 

 you couldn't borrow an umbrella or a pair of rubbers from any one. The next idiot said a come) 

 would strike and demolish the earth in a twinkling. Whereupon many excellent people tied their 

 beds and carpets about their premises, and put cotton in their ears, and sat down on the cellar 

 bottom in dreadful expectation of the shock. Hardly had this alarm passed off when another 

 astronomer came around telling people that the Niagara Falls would be dry in less than nineteen 

 thousand years, and nothing would do but that people should hurry right out there for a farewell 

 look, and in less than twenty-four hours there wasn't people enough in Danbury to entertain a 

 Japanese hermit. And now here is Trail with four planets and no vaccine matter. All Tobacco- 

 chewers are to be killed by these planets, and young ladies who wear stays, and men who bet on 

 the wrong horse. If we understand the old scoundrel correctly, the only people saved are those 

 who drink lemonade out of a dipper and play Copenhagen with their aunts. 



A WEST STREET man says the longest funeral he ever heard of took place a week ago. Hir 

 hired girl went to it and hasn't got back yet. 



ONE of the saddest sights in this season of the year is a young man who has waited outside 

 the church of an evening until he is chilled through, only to see a girl walk off with some rascal 

 who has been inside all the time and toasting his sinful shins at the stove. 



THE DANBURY NEWSMAN'S ALMANAC, 1874, 



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THF WTiST OF ALL GOOD COMPANY, bee Blanche . 

 Jerrold. 



