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I have been suffering from a mechanical difficulty in breathing which, to say the least, is very annoying, though by no means dangerous. It is the result of too close application to my editorial work and will, undoubtedly, pen? away as soon as my labor is some what lightened, which it will be after election. - All others are getting on well and merrily. Little Eddy cannot yet walk or talk, but he has considerable of a will of his own and proves it by tremendous crying whenever he fails to get immediately what he wants. His general health is good and his face like a red apple, but his limbs are yet rather feeble. Well, if, at least, he can walk next spring, that will do. Since last Tuesday we have a new girl, who is tidy, a good cook, very neat and intelligent, but _ (there is always a but with servant girls in this country) - we are just now exceedingly vexed at her; she having gone to her parents this afternoon at 1 o'clock promis ing to be back at 7, since we wanted to go to an evening entertainment - and not having returned yet at a quarter past 9. - Of course, we could not leave the little girl Irma? alone with the baby and have, therefore, had to forego our entertainment. - As yet we are not yet resolved upon what to do, - whether to dismiss her on the spot or not. Yesterday I received the chromot? which I had ordered at Berlin. They are beautiful and certainly of the best, ever published in Germany. _ They are: 1. Mondaufgang am Beine See; 2. auf dem Schocherthal; 3. Hafen in Winter v. Meyerheim? 4. Rinnenhefer? 5. Waldeinsamkeit im unclear, 6. Stubbenfall?, besides a couple of smaller "Genrebilden"? - I shall have them framed this week. The spare? over the mantelpiece has been reserved by Ma for the picture of your first? mother.