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Show CORNELIA'S WIT. I Tho matron Cornelia, returning ti i Rome after a season abroad, was be- Ing held up at the custom house and i subjected to such various indignities us were coiled for by the enUgnteoed polity of the republic And particularly they asked her , about jewels. j "Theoe ure my jewel." she declared, de-clared, and pointed to her eoan, ,tho ! Gracchi. Whereupon, the collector of the I port, recognizing. In spite of thy, density den-sity which had won him his place, that the mot thus let fall was of a deathless character, acknowledged, with what of grace he might. tht the drlDks were on him! Puck. |