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Our Olio,

Why is a room full of married ladies,
Ike an empty room? Because there is
not a single lady in it.
Dor, Jr., saws that the reason that
man was made after everything else, was
if he had been created first, he would
have ANNOYED tire Almighty with endless
suggestions of improvements.
Why is tight boot like mill? Be-
cause it grinds the corn.
SOME ONE says wife shoull lie like
roasted lamb, tender and nicely dressed.
Someone else wickedly ds-and with
out sauce.
4 y Irish paper giving All account of q
late duel, says that one Of tie combat
ants was shot TIN ough the fiesIay part of
the thigh bone
A Young gentleman who has just mar
rei n little beauty says ''she would lave
been taller, but she is made of such pre-
cIous materials that Nature could az
ford it.
\ leading broker being asked the 9th
or day how his child was? answered al
most in tears, Very ilI-woua not give
two per cent for his life
MEN often mistake love Of their opin-
ions for a love of the truth.
As the sun to the sun-tower, so is
friend to Misunderstanding and attrac-
ted.
know little rose,
And 0 but l were blast,
Could | but be the drop of dew
That Les upon her breast.
Butt dare not look so high,
Nor die death so sweet;
1t is enough for me to be
The dust about her feet
liz who has high forehead will have
his eyes underit, and live alI the days of
his lifo.
He who has long nos, VIII have the
more to blow.
He that is bald viii be likely to have
no hair; but if he happens to have any,
it viii no. be on the bald place.
BUS, What's become ofthe hole l saw
in your pants the other daya" ..Its
worn out, sir"
4 chicken faneier is trying to get up a
new race Of pullets by crossing weather
cocks with Shanghai hens.
Or aII plaques, tho deadl;est which
you can take iu:o yonr hear; Is gain that
has been won by fraud.
TIE sorrows of 3 pure hear; arc but the
:lay-frosts which precede the warm sum
mer day; but the sorrows af corrupt
soul are rs autumn iros-S wh;ch fc-etell
ihe coll dre:-y wia.e-.
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From the Evening Post.
MAR Il.


It's past, we may not meet again
How strange it seems / shall so miss
Thy footstep and thy gentle kiss,
That brought pleasing pain.
Sit By me here and let me Bind
Thy snow-white arms around my neck
Those bcauteous arms without fieck,
Like lily leaves entwincd.
How like Gagged bird beats my heart
Against its prison bars-thy form
Doth tremble meath my pressure warm,
AS roses VIXEN, the roguish wind
Prints on their leaves its kisses kind,
aud fiuttcra them apart.
The autumn moon looks calmly down
Upon our parting 4: silver foods
Of starlight simmer; quiet broods
Over the sleeping cown.
And DER my heart sadness reigns
Supreme, where erst thousand joys
Came trooping up, as girls and boys
Released from school, with eager longing.
In search of flowers go hurrying thronging
Through daisy spangled lanes.
And we must part-long, silent years
OF sorrow may not leave a trace
On thy fair, music breathing face
Now dirply seen through tears.
Yet still viii haunt me like spell
The memory of this fearful eve:
And though, in parting | shall leave
Love, life. hope, heaven behind me here,
can but cheek a parting tear,
And bid q last farewell
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FOR 1867.

FOR as So.

FEHHE Forty ninth Volume of the Knioker
A booker Magazine will commence with tis
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the Publisher to make great additions to the
literary merits of the work
We take it for granted there are but few mag
azine readers in the country who are not famil-
lar with the authors of 81. Ledger, and the
Sparrow Grass, both old contributors to the
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which will appear in every number; and Mr..
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We have now two contributors not excelled
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W Shelton and Charles G. Leland The fra
known as our "Up-River Correspondent" has
written a series of Letters, part of which have
been issued and extensively sold in beautiful
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which delight all who read them. These win
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give Sketch or Letter each month.
We have also several highly accomplished
Lady Contri butors, whose favOrs will grace our
pages regularly. and whose names we would
be glad to publish, if we were permitted 10
do so.
With these and other contributors, and the
Table of Mr.. Clark, whose long experience has
made him an fat in his department. we shall
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varied that no refined taste can fail to be graft
fed. Weonly ask to be judged on our merits
after fair trial
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NovELs.-How far f ON life and man
ners and motives the novel still isl Life
lies about us dumb; the day, as we know
it, has not yet found tongue These
stories are to the plots of real life what
the figures in g La Belle Assemble"
which represent the fashion of the month.
are to portraits. But the novel will find
the way TO our interiors one day, and will
not always be the novel of costume mere
iy. [ do not think them imperative
now. So much novel reading cannot
leave the young men and maidens I'M
touched; and doubtless it gives some ido-
nj dignity to the Jay. The young study
noble behavior, and as the player in
"Consuelo insists that he and his col
leagues on the boards have taught prin-
ces the fine etiquette and strokes of grace
ahd dignity which they practice with so
much effect in their villas and among
their dependents so l often see traces Of
the Scotch or the French novel in the
courtesy and brilliancy of young midship-
men, collegians, and clerks. Indeed,
when one observes how i'll and ugly peo-
pie make their loves and quarrels. It's
pity they should not read novels little
more, to import the fine generosities, and
the clear, firm conduct, which are as be-
coming in the unions and separations
which love effects under single roofs as
In palaces and among illustrious person
ages. This passion
for romance shows how much we need
resi- elevations and pure poetry; that
which shall show us. in morning and
night, IN stars and mountains, and in al
the plight and circumstance of men, the
analogous of our own thoughts, and
like impression made by just book and
the fsee Of NatiNe.-I caS,sa,s l., the At
faafie Monthly
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BLESSED ARE THEY THAT
MOURN.

Oh. deem not they are best alone
Whose lives peaceful tenor keep;
The Power that pitics man has shown
A blessing for the eyes that weep.
The light Of smiles shall fill again
The lid that overfows with tears;
And every hour Of wee and rain,
Has promises of happier years.
There is day of sunny rest,
For every dark and troubled night:
And grief may be an evening guest,
But Joy shall come with early light.
And thou who Ger thy friends low bier
Sheddest the bitter drops like rain,
Hope that happier, fighter sphere
Willgiye him to thy arms again.
Nor let the good mans trust depart.
Though life its common gift deny,
Though pierced and broken be his heart,
And spurned ofmen he goes to die;
For God has marked each sorrowng day,
And numbered every sacred tear;
And Heavens long age of bliss shall pay
For all It's children suffer here.
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" two calves, one rcd and white steer, and
one red heifer. The owner is requested to call,
prove property, pay charges, and take them
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