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Chants Democratic.
:The designs for wall-papers, oil-cloths, carpets, the fancies for goods for women, the book-binder's stamps,
- The brewery, brewing, the malt, the vats, every thing that is done by brewers, also by wine-makers, also vinegar-makers,
- Leather-dressing, coach-making, boiler-making, rope-twisting, distilling, sign-painting, lime-burning, coopering, cotton-picking—electro-plating, electrotyping, stereotyping,
- Stave-machines, planing-machines, reaping-machines, ploughing-machines, thrashing-machines, steam-wagons,
- The cart of the carman, the omnibus, the ponderous dray,
- The wires of the electric telegraph stretched on land, or laid at the bottom of the sea, and then the message in an instant from a thousand miles off,
- The snow-plough, and two engines pushing it—the ride in the express-train of only one car, the swift go through a howling storm—the locomotive, and all that is done about a locomotive,
- The bear-hunt or coon-hunt—the bonfire of shavings in the open lot in the city, and the crowd of children watching,
- The blows of the fighting-man, the upper-cut, and one-two-three,
- Pyrotechny, letting off colored fire-works at night, fancy figures and jets,
- Shop-windows, coffins in the sexton's ware-room, fruit on the fruit-stand—beef in the butcher's stall, the slaughter-house of the butcher, the butcher in his killing-clothes,
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