W. J. Young, an old settler was shot last week wlxile duck shooting. A gushing poet asks, in tlie first' line of a recent effusion, " How many weary pilgrims lie ?"' We give it up, but experience lias taught us a great many. ■ A school girl in one of the rural districts of Pittsfield was overheard trying to convince a school-fellow that she liked him better than she did some other urchin of whom he seemed jealous. "Of course I like you better than I do Bill," said she, "for don't I miss words in my spelling lesson on purpose, so as to be down to the foot of the class where you are P"
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 219, 9 May 1873, Page 3
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114Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume IV, Issue 219, 9 May 1873, Page 3
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