A Maiden Fair Is She

Miss Michigan, the Wolverlne young lady belonging to Uncle Sam'g family of buxom girte, Avill celébrate her 57th birthday next Friday. She is not aa old ma.id, either, but just in the prime of life, ajid one of the hiindsomest and best behaved of the family. She ie famous for her good neaitn, uer excellent education, her fine looks, lier industry, lier thrift, and her habit of ahvays niinding lier own business, and allowing no one to impose upon her good nature. She is is just now somewh&t sad and melancholy over the outrageous conduct of a prominent old fossil suitor för her hand wham she had been coquetting wlth a little, Mr. Bourbon Democrat. He is attempting to ruin her fortune and thrift by his English methods and by favorins tlie little Canuck maid over the border, JJLss Canada, but the entire family are so enraged over his contemptible acts, that lie will probably be compelled to belnave, and comport Mmself like ;i true American, hfowever much it may le aainst his inclinations.