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Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-06-28

~ a Connecticut minIIser having
walked through a village church yard.
and observing the indiscriminate praises
bestowed upon the dead. wrote upon the
gate post the following line: =
!" Here lies the dead, and here the liy-
ing lie."
Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1854-06-28

SHANE TO MANHooD.-TO see delicate
woman rubbing bed clothes evera wash
board from morning till night. ani her
culean gentlemen measuring on rolls OF
lace and deIica'e ribbons, would make a
Pawnee Indian laugh at our assumptions
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