<h3>PILLS TO PURGE MELANCHOLY.</h3>
<p>The Puritanic and classically sedate critics blamed the President
for finding recreation in reading and hearing comic tales, used to
illustrate grave texts. He said to a congressman who brought up the
censure at a time when the country was profoundly harried:</p>
<p>"Were it not for this occasional vent, I should die!"
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