Some one has applied the old Latin motto, _"Horas non numero nisi
serenas,"_ to Mr. GREELEY, by making it read, "HORACE is of no account
except when serene," which, by the by, he never is.
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Query for Naturalists.
How can a person who stands four feet in his boots be called biped?
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DENTS-LY FILLED. Government offices.
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[Illustration: KING WILLIAM OF PRUSSIA WAITING FOR HIS ALLY.]
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HIRAM GREEN ON MARK TWAIN'S BABY.
The "Lait Gustice" congratulates the newly organized Papa.
SKEENSBORO, NYE ONTO VARMONT.
Friend TWAIN--Allow an old statesman, which has served his country for 4
yeers as Gustise of the Peece, rite a congratulotery letter to you on
your success as a boy raisest. Altho your name is MARK TWAIN, I notiss
that on this occashon you dident Mark but One.
I am a little older in years and _Parentelism_ than you are, and am able
to call myself the seenyer pardner in a firm who are the sole
proprieters of eleven offspring and 2 grand-children.
Raisin children is a bizziniss which haint every mans best holt, and as
long as you've got into the bizziness, excoose me for givin you a little
wisdom, which you as a parent must swaller without makin up a face.
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