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Look Out for the Engine
LOOK OUT FOR THE ENGINE WHILE THE BELL IS RINGING. With lungs of fire, and ribs of steel, With sighing valve, and groaning wheel, With startling scream and giant stroke, With showers of sparks and...
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Songs for Henry Clay
Image from Elektratig blog The Workingmen’s Song. Air — “WASHING DAY.” Times won’t be right its plain to see, Till Tyler runs his race, But then we’ll have a better man To put into his place; For now...
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A Hundred Years Ago
Image from Votaries of Horror A HUNDRED YEARS AGO. Where are the birds that sang A hundred years ago? The flowers that all in beauty sprang, A hundred years ago? – The lips that smiled, The eyes that...
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The Rights of Women
Image from Assumption College THE RIGHTS OF WOMEN. BY MRS. E. LITTLE. “The rights of women,” what are they? The right to labor and to pray, The right to watch while others sleep, The right o’er...
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American Mind
Image from Impressions of Niagra AMERICAN MIND. [The following complimentary tribute to the active intellect of our country, is from the pen of Lady EMMELINE STUART WORTLEY, and was written since her...
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American Aristocracy
AMERICAN ARISTOCRACY. BY J.G. SAXE. Of all the notable things on earth, The queerest one is pride of birth Among our ” fierce democracies!” A bridge across a hundred years, Without a prop to save from...
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Pigeon Soup
HOMEOPATHIC SOUP. The following remarkable recipe for making Homeopathic soup, is attributed by the Brooklyn Advertiser to the late Dr. Post, of New York: Take two starved pigeons, hang them by a...
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They Say
THEY SAY. “They say,” tells that which is not true, at least three quarters of the time. He is about the worst authority you can produce to support the credibility of your statement. Scarcely was...
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Stand as an Anvil
Image from Catholic Spiritual Direction From the Missionary. Stand as an Anvil, When it is Beaten Down. [St. Ignatius to St. Polycarp: both Martyrs.] “Stand, like an anvil,” when the stroke Of...
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The Old American Flag
Image from The Gadsden Flag From the London Chronicle. The Old American Flag. The American Standard is thus described. The colors of the American fleet have a snake with thirteen rattles, the...
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