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E have not the least desire, in these metropolitan sketches of ours, to emulate the achievements of the patent million magnifying gentlemen, who glory in showing serpent tadpoles, icthyosaurian minnos, and thosand-legged atoms, in the —1

tumbler of water you have been drinking from. We never thanked any body for insinuating that unmentionable horrors were daily becoming part and parcel of our vital circulation, which ruddy cheeks and cleareyes would otherwise have made