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Kev Tunis Titus Kendrick says he doesn’t believe dancing is a sin; but we suppose he never had a Cincinnati lady tread on his toes. —* Chicago Inter-Ocean.’ ‘‘Will you nlease insert this obituary notice ?” writes a correspondent to the editor of a provincial paper. “ I make bold to ask it, because I know the deceased had a great many friends who’d be glad to hear of his death,” Brevity is the Soul of Wit.—When a Western editor is in a hurry, he doesn’t waste words by saying “It rained.” He simply writes, “After many days of arid dedication, the vapory captains marshalled their thundering hosts, and poured out upon, scorching huinanity and the thoroughly incinerated vegetation a few inches of aqua pluvialis,”— American paper.

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Evening Star, Issue 3755, 6 March 1875, Page 2

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Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Issue 3755, 6 March 1875, Page 2

Page 2 Advertisements Column 5 Evening Star, Issue 3755, 6 March 1875, Page 2