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Autumn leaves as an Ornament.

--The wife of one of our Ministers at the Court of St. James received from a friend a box of the foliage of our October woods, and, laying aside pearls from the ocean and gems from the mines, she wore a simple wreath of sunset leaves at a party in London, awaking the admiration of all the high-born dames.

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