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.

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