Was the honorable member from Massachusetts _really_ born with a silver
spoon in his _mouth_?

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The Witch and the Switch.

Fashionable women are like the conventional school-mistress--they
believe in the switch.

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Naughty.

When did the people send a cipher to the State Senate? When they sent
NORT-on there.

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THE MARINER'S WRONGS.

Within the memories of men who are not yet old, the sailor was always
looked upon and talked about as "a jolly dog." There was a glamour of
romance about him when he was at sea, and "JACK ashore" was for ages
held up as the presentment of all that was happy, and contented, and
free from care. His hardest duty was supposed to be shinning up the
ratlin to "reef," or "brail up," or "splice the mainbrace," or do some
other of those mysterious things that caused him to look so mythical to
the minds of land-lubbers and the simple-hearted kind of women that used
to be, but now no longer are. His lighter hours (about eighteen out of