There is an absurd idea disseminated in novels, that the happier a girl is with another man, the happier it makes the old lover she has blighted.

Don't allow yourself to believe any such nonsense as that.

The more cause that girl finds to regret that she did not marry you, the more comfortable you will feel over it.

It isn't poetical, but it is mighty sound doctrine.
"ARITHMETICUS." Virginia, Nevada.--"If it would take a cannon-ball 3 and 1/3 seconds to travel four miles, and 3 and 3/8 seconds to travel the next four, and 3 and 5/8 to travel the next four, and if its rate of progress continued to diminish in the same ratio, how long would it take it to go fifteen hundred million miles ?" I don't know.
"AMBITIOUS LEARNER," Oakland .-- Yes; you are right America was not discovered by Alexander Selkirk.
"DISCARDED LOVER."-- "I loved, and still love, the beautiful Edwitha Howard, and intended to marry her.

Yet, during my temporary absence at Benicia, last week, alas! she married Jones.