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Novel Christmas

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Day
23
Month
December
Year
1880
Copyright
Public Domain
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The don Globe bas learned that the foreign colony in Paris is always being credited with some strange ideas or extravagant fancies, and the newspapers declare that the Engliflh and American residents navedetermined to keep their Christmas holiday in a strange and eccentric nianner. An immense Christmas tree is to be set up in the circus in the Champa Eiysees, with presenta for the members of the two different colonies. The price of admission is to be 20 francs each person. There will be two principal prizes. The one a youwg lady, "whose charms and wit made her the belle of evury rout and soiree during last season." Half of the money taken at thedoors will be handed over to her as a wedding portion, and if she is won by a bachelor he will be compelled to marry her, while in the event of her falling to a married man those who have taken tickets in the lottery are to be allowed to draw again. The other principal prize consista of a good-looking young f ellow, the winner of whom will have the remaining rnoiety of the receipts to compénsate her for giving up her liberty. The other evening a Galveston young nan observed his economical landlady buttering a slice of bread. Finally he said, "I wish, Mrs. Bombazine, that you had raised me when I was a wayward boy." "Why soï" she asked, as she spread a very small lump of butter over a vast area of bread. 'Because you would have laid it on so ,very light. The man who is always for getting ia like to forget to give.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat