Always your affectionate friend, (Signed) JONES MINIMUS.

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THE SAME OLD GAME.

    [Russia is said to be threatening the old Finnish laws and
    liberties.]

  Russia snubs him who, as a candid friend,
    Horrors Siberian, Hebrew would diminish.
  Must Muscovites prove tyrants to the end? 
    At least they aim to prove so to the Finnish!

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