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Congress, says a Washington message, is anxious to get back to
domestic business. It does not say whose.

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[Illustration: STRANGE CASE IN PUGILISTIC CIRCLES.

A REPORTER LEARNS FROM BILL SLOGGS THAT HE IS NOTHING LIKE AS HARD AS
NAILS AND NOT THE LEAST CONFIDENT.]

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"'Easter and Peace will coincide,' declared a member of the
Council of Ten to the Central News correspondent in Paris."

"Easter Day this year is on April 20--less than six hours
hence."--_Evening Paper, March 12th._

How some of our journalists do jump to conclusions!

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THE MUD LARKS.

Yesterday morning, a freckled child, dripping oil and perspiration and
clad in a sort of canvas dressing-gown, stumbled into "Remounts" (or
"Demounts," as we should more properly call ourselves nowadays) and
presented me with a slip of paper which entitled him, the bearer, to