A Connecticut paper tells this story of a new; boy in the Sunday sehobls:—" The; precious youth was asked who made the beautiful hills about them, and remarked' that he did not know, as his parents had only removed into the town the day before!" "Bobby, what is steam?" "Boiling water." "That's righfc—compare it." " Positive, boil; comparative, boiler, superlative burst." One cf "our young-girls," at an examination in grammar, the other day, when asked why the noun " bachelor" was. singularj bliishingly answered, "Because it is singular they don't get married." She went up to the head. One of Boston's fair daughters thus writes to her bosom friend:—" Dear Susie —I shan't attend school again until I Get some new cuffs, collars, and jewellerydear mamma agrees with me that it is my Dooty, to take the shine out of that Upstart Mammy Jones ; and I'll do it if I never learn nothing."
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 194, 15 November 1872, Page 3
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151Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 194, 15 November 1872, Page 3
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