* * I believe in taking things easy, and I shall cheerfully assist the Administration, when it calls at my door on Census business.

SARSFIELD YOUNG.

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Facilis Descensus

The daily papers frequently have articles respecting the “Hell Gate Obstructions.”  We do not, however, remember having seen that subject handled in the Sun. Perhaps it is that DANA and DYER, conscious of their deserts, do not anticipate any obstructions in that quarter.

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[Illustration:  ARISTOCRACY IN THE KITCHEN.

Lady, (responsively.) “THAT FASHIONABLY DRESSED WOMAN WHO HAS JUST PASSED, DEAR?  OH, THAT’S MY COOK, TAKING HER SUNDAY WITH THE GROCER’S YOUNG MAN.  SHE NEVER ACKNOWLEDGES ME ON SUCH OCCASIONS.”]

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WHAT SHALL WE CALL IT?

Having made up my mind to become a novelist, I naturally studied the productions of my predecessors, and found out, I assure you, in a very brief period of time, the little tricks of the trade.  As I do not wish to have the business flooded with neophytes, I refrain from informing your readers how every man can become his own novel writer.  One very curious thing, however, which I discovered, I will here relate.

I was very much puzzled by the curious titles which novelists selected for their books, and very much annoyed by my inability to discover where they picked them up.  I persevered, however, and discovered that they found them in the daily papers.  In fact, I shrewdly suspect that I have discovered, in these veracious sheets, the very incidents which suggested the names of a number of volumes.  Let me place before you the extracts, which I have culled from the papers.

"Put Yourself in his Place."—­READE.

“Yesterday morning an unknown man was found hanging from the limbs of a tree in JONES’ Wood.  He was quite dead when discovered.”

"Red as a Rose is She."

“Bridget Flynn was arrested for vagrancy.  When brought before the Court she was quite drunk.  She had evidently been a hard drinker for years, as her face was of a brilliant carmine color.”

"Man and Wife." COLLINS.

“Married.—­At Salt Lake City, on the 1st day of August, 1870, BRIGHAM YOUNG, Esq., to Miss LETITIA BLACK, Mrs. SUSAN BROWN and Miss JENNIE SMITH.”

"What will he do with it?" BULWER.

“It is stated by the police authorities, that the description of Mr. NATHAN’S watch has been spread so widely, that the robber will be unable to dispose of it to any jeweler or pawnbroker.”

"Our Mutual Friend"—­DICKENS.

“England is supplying both France and Prussia with horses.”

"John."—­Mrs. OLIPHANT.

“Mr. SAMPSON has sent to California for another cargo of Chinese shoemakers.”