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h patriot: "I would not change my joy for the empire of the world." =Thurlow, Edward= (1732-1806), English lawyer: "I'll be shot if I don't believe I'm dying." =Vane, Henry= (1612-1662), English statesman: "Ten thousand deaths for me ere I stain the purity of my conscience." =Washington, George= (1732-1799), American general and statesman: "It is well, I am about to die, and I look upon it with perfect resignation." =Webster, Daniel= (1782-1852), American statesman: "I still live." =Wellington, Duke of= (1769-1852), British general and statesman: "Yes, if you please." (To a servant asking if he would have some tea.) =Wesley, John= (1703-1791), English divine: "The best of all is, God is with us. Farewell." OLDEN TIME PUBLICITY. How an artful tradesman drew attention to the presence and the excellence of his wares in 1875. REMEMBER Governor Tilden says that John Hanson told him that he heard Web Wagner say that Anna E. Dickinson told him that D.S. Decker heard that there was no doubt that John McLaren said that S.T. Benedict thought Fred. Seward had told Jim Johnson that Cushney had declared to John Fulton that it was generally believed that Harry Hull said, in plain terms, that he heard Al Berry say that his friend, Harriet Beecher Stowe, had said that Fred. Hotchkiss informed her, at Delmonico's, that it was well known all over the country that Fin Helwig had caught Jimmey Farthing in saying that in his opinion it was a matter of fact, of great public interest, that Nate Wells had said Fred. Howell told him that COHEN BROS. would receive, on Thursday, Oct. 28th, the first invoice of LYNN HAVEN OYSTERS, never before sold in Gloversville, and all for 35 cents a quart. New York, 1875. When Vesuvius Destroyed Pompeii. BY THE YOUNGER PLINY--79 A.D. Pliny the Younger--Caius Plinius Caecilius Secundus--was perhaps, the most cultivated and graceful man of letters of the first century A.D. Literally a man of letters, he left ten books of his "Epistles," which he himself collected--probably even wrote with a view to publication--and their fluent charm still pleases the taste of the reader. One of his letters, written while he was Governor of Bithynia, asks instructions from the Emperor Trajan as to what policy should be pursued against the sect of Christians. In other
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