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Show a maiden, the future wife of the gingerbread ginger-bread eaterhad her attention-called to him, preliminary to a future and more intimate acquaintance. Weil, we hold against an opposing world, that new molasses gingerbread, baked in a brick oven as they used to bake it in New England, is i;ood enough for angel's food. CINGERBKKiD. A morning paper leads off with au editorial edito-rial on 'he striking results of cingerhread externally administered. It is a common belief tJtst hread piils administered hy a pill maker adorned with a breastplate of sheep- kin With sundry excerpts from a dead lan- guage thereon, and accompanied with faith j by the pill-taker, will remove or relieve j many of the ills flesh is heir to. it may ba a delicste ijuestion of practice in lM esse of that ''jrrand old msn," j Ql IIHWl II 1 1, whose eye was seriously iu- jured a piece of hard tringcr&read thrown with mtlieious intent and muscular vim by au English ehar-woman. if his atteadanl physician is a homeopathie praetitioner, he cauuot, with strict consistency, administer common hread pills even though they may have passed through the infinitesimal methes of a regulation ieve. To attempt it would militate against the linal cure of the illustrious patient aud strike a fatal blow at the underlying principle of the order; common com-mon infad pills for a gingerbread ailment, would not eonforin to the doctrine, "thai a ttato of the same dog that bit the patient must care the bite." However, ou calling a c?u?f i! of eminent English pliy6ieiaus, a decision might be obtained to the effect tha'. triturated ginger bread pilis would be effectual anil above all reirular; there beiu butt' hairbreadth distinction between common com-mon bread and uncommonly hard gingerbread ginger-bread with ragged edges. We trust the distinction with a difference, if theie be any, will not interfere with Mr. I IAD-; ' im's early recovery. Speaking of gingerbread in its relation to statesmen, states-men, one is reminded of Fkank-j.is, Fkank-j.is, wlio, in his early manhood days sauntered down Philadelphia streets with two rolls of the luscious article, one under his arm and eating the other. There, as in tiLAi)sxo-Bs ca6C, a woman as "iu it," for |