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Updated: June 19, 2025
The place is altogether in a flourishing condition, and so advanced in the refinements of life, that the news-paper, lately established in the town, sets forth the following articles for sale: 'Ladies' shoes from Paris, Ices, and Eau de Cologne." GRANDY. "It is a great cause for thankfulness, that religion is spreading her benign influence over these volcanic isles.
I had been wonderfully at a Loss for many Months together, to guess at the Character of a Man who came now and then to our Coffee-house: He ever ended a News-paper with this Reflection, Well, I see all the Foreign Princes are in good Health. If you asked, Pray, Sir, what says the Postman from Vienna? he answered, Make us thankful, the German Princes are all well: What does he say from Barcelona?
"Here's the old news-paper," she used to say to my uncle. "Now don't go and get it in the butter, you silly old Sardine!" "What's the day of the week, Susan?" my uncle would ask. "Old Monday, Sossidge," she would say, and add, "I got all my Old Washing to do. Don't I KNOW it!"...
Of the former class the hardest type was unquestionably Jabel Blake, and the business which he had in hand with the freshly Honorable Arthur MacNair, who sat at his side reading the Pittsburg news-paper, was the establishment of a national bank at the town of Ross Valley, Pennsylvania. Jabel Blake had as little the look of a bank president as had his representative the bearing of a politician.
But, oh! isn't it nice to be alone together again?" "Very nice." "And remember, you are to make all possible use of me, as nurse, reader, when you feel that you would like to listen to book or news-paper, as amanuensis, every thing."
I made you carry me, over and over again, when you should have made me walk; and I often drove you in harness, when you would much rather have sat down and read your news-paper: didn't I? 'Sometimes, sometimes. But Lor, what a child you were! What a companion you were! 'Companion? That's just what I want to be to-day, Pa. 'You are safe to succeed, my love.
There I forced myself to stay, till I saw him engaged with a news-paper, and then, through various private streets and alleys, I returned hither; but judge my indignation, when the moment I knocked at the door, I perceived him again at my side!" "Did he, then, see you come in?"
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