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MARRIAGE.


There are two cardinal points in a man's life, which determine his
happiness or his misery; these are his birth and his marriage. It is in
vain for a man to be born fortunate if he be unfortunate in his
marriage.

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PERVERSENESS OF FOREIGNERS.


"What a rum language they talk in this place!" said an English sailor
the other day to his companion, who arrived a few days later than the
speaker himself had done at Rochefort--"Why, they call a cabbage a
_shoe_--(choux!)" "They are a d--d set!" was the reply, "why can't
they call it a cabbage!"

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In a newspaper, dated January 31, 1746, we find the following theatrical
announcement:--