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A voi'Mi lady licinir asked by a rich bachelor, " If 

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Ill a recently published p;azeltecr is the following 

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ChinesI': version of "the little busy bee:" 

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All kin' places 'loun tlowels jest got busted. 



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A South Boston lady was recently interrocated by 

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 — thou shall not covet thy neighbor's ass." 



Recently, as a negro was painting his house on 

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Obitu.iht of the Cincinnatifighting jackass, by G. 

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A lioness from Lybia's desert waste. 

 With ratthng heels he boldly dared to paste. 

 .She scratched him and the scratches mortified : 

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 Gone to meet Sergeant Bates. 



An e.xchanc.e gives a catalogue of Nevada's con- 

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 pound lump of brimstone, and a baby that doesn't 

 like candy." If the other States of the Union will 

 do but half as well, the exhibition will be well worth 

 going several miles to see. 



Dr. Allen, of Philadelphia, was preaching one day 

 in Tennessee to the frecdmen, when an oUl colored 

 brother came to him after the sernion ami said: " I 

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Mu. Cox, in his capital articles on Congressional 

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A wniTEK in the Eibicalioiial Monthly says that if 

 a thin section of coal be uiacerated in a solution of 

 saleralus, and afterwards washed and submitted to 

 the action of nitric acid, to remove mineral impuri- 

 ties, the inieroseope will show that it is made up of 

 vegetable cells. They usually show no siirn of struc- 

 ture, but occasionally fragments of old logs have 

 been found. The change from wood to coal, in some 

 instances, is not complete, as woody fibre lias been 

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