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suggestion for a floating exposition, to enable American manufacturers and exporters to exhibit their goods at the doors of the people to whom they desire to sell them, recently made by the chief of the Bureau of Statistics of the Treasury Department, is resulting in much discussion of the subject, not only throughout the United States, but in other parts of the world.
To Lincoln may be applied the words which a Chinese historian uses in describing the character of Yao, the most revered and honored of the ancient rulers of China.
Whenever you see a youth yearning for more education, for a fuller life; when you see him devoting every spare moment to acquiring information which may help him in his business or occupation, or enlarge his mental horizon; when you see him cheerful and prompt, always trying to do everything he touches to a finish, you may be very certain that that boy will succeed.
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day in passing through our garden we plucked some seeds from a morning glory vine, carried them over to the side of our summer house, and planted them in the ground.
