The man who failed in his efforts to beat % drum in the " march of. time " ig said to be getting in readiness to try hli hand on the "horn of plenty." Farms in Arkansas sell at from three to five oents an acre. An Arkaosu paper says that dirt is such a drag-in that State that if a purchaser does not look oat they'll smuggle forty o#fifty acres on him in making out the deed. George (who has just engaged himself to the girl of hii heart) breJffSe ££* news to his friend Jack (who has been married some time). Jack, "Ah? Well, my dear fellow, marriage i*XJ best thing » the long run. fill2 assure you that, after a year or two?s man gets used to it and f ee l. j B .t at jolll as if he had nerer married at all."
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Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3038, 9 November 1878, Page 2
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143Untitled Thames Star, Volume IX, Issue 3038, 9 November 1878, Page 2
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