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Grimes strutted and swaggered as if the fate of the nation rested 

 with him. 



The papers themselves were not very flourishing-looking con- 

 cerns, the wide-spread paragraphs, the staring type, the catching 

 advertisements, forming a curious contrast to the close packing of 



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the Times. The " G-utta Percha Company," " Locock's Female 

 Pills," "Keating's Cough Lozenges," and the "Triumphs of 

 Medicine," all with staring woodcuts and royal arms, occupied 

 conspicuous places in every paper. A new advertisement was a 

 novelty. However, the two papers answered a great deal better 

 than either did singly, and any lack of matter was easily supplied 

 from the magazines and new books. In this department, indeed, 



