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FROM SHORE TO SHORE.
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THE BABE OF BETHLEHEM
A FINE STEEL ENGRAVING

A FINE STEEL ENGRAVING.
Very Beautifully Representing tie Maturity Of our
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FOR SALE.

desire to sell my Water-Mill, Saw-Mill and
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An old revolutioner says, that of all
the solemn hours he ever saw, that one
occurred in going home one dark night
from widow Browns, after being told by
her daughter Sally that he needn't come
aGain," was the most solemn.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

A lover writing to his sweetheart
says: Delicate dear-You are SO sweet
that honey would blush in your presence
and molasses stand appalled,.
He had the complaint very bad
didn't he?
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An unenlightened darkey once sent a
reply to an invitation, in which he re-
gretted that circumstances repugnant to
the acquiesce would prevent the accep-
tance to the invite.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

Among the articles announced for
sale at recent auction was one entitled
n mahogany child's chair" The faith
err of this wonderful infant must be of
the Wood family.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

If a petticoat government is not more
oppressive now than formerly, it is GER
tainly doubled in extent.
Whether oppressive or not, we are
willing to live under such a government.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

Miss Tyler, an accomplished young
lady, who is granddaughter of the late
ex-President Tyler, is now engaged in
setting type in the Office of the Mont
gomery (Ala.) Advertiser.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

Lawyer-Did the defendant knock
the plaintiff down with malice prepense?
Witness-No, sir; he knocked him down
with lat-iron.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

Readers are of two sorts. There is a
reader who carefully goes through a
book; and reader who as carefully lets
IA book 60 through him.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

A negro being caught stealing from a
hen-roost, excused himself by saying,
Dat he only come dar to see if de chick
ems sleep wild dar eyes Open.''
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

The Mexican debt is 800, 900, 900. OF
this sum about $50 ,OOO, 900 is due to
England, and $12,OOO,OO to Spain.
About $5,000,000 are owing to France.
Natchitoches spectator. [volume] (Natchitoches, La.) 1867-18??, 1868-03-26

the "FARMER's GUIDE" by Henry Stephens of
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Happiness can DO made quite as well
OF cheap materials as Of dear ones.
Nothing can be great which is not
right.
Pride is said to be flower that grows
in the devils garden.
Poetry bottle ofink sprinkled over
= sheet of fools-cap paper.
There are twenty-five new RAILROADS
in process of construction within eighty
miles of New York city.
No tune is SO popular, and yet 50 hard
10 catch, as fortune.
When is a good tune most relished 2
When it is opportune.
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A countryman who went to see the
play OF the 'tWhite Fawn,'' in Boston,
recently, said it seemed to him that the
curtain had been run up before the bal.
let girls had got wholly dressed.
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