l'E Vias OF TIIOUUIIT.
lie that knows himself knows others.
The night is long that never finds a
•lay.
A sht t that hits is better than a
broadside that misses.
Under our greatest troubles oftcu lie
i our greatest treasures.
1— To live without a purpose is to lead
. a restless, unhappy life.
Should we condemn ourselves to ig
norance to preserve hope ?
Wo are ruined, not by what we really
want, but by what we think we do.
Truth only smells sweet forever, and
illusions, however innocent, are deadly
as tho eankerworm.
He that will beliovo only what he can
fully comprehend must have a very long
head or a very short creed.
< himneys are not swept until the tin
is out. W hen the passions aro ex-
tingnished man purifies his heart.
Much as we dislike to admit our de
fects, wo find it better to know and
gaard against than liavo to ignore
them.
1 hose who valne themselves merely
on their ancestry have been compared
to potatoes, all that is good of them is
nnder the gronnd.
Health, beauty, vigor, riches, and all
the other things called goods, operate
equally as evils to tho vicious and nn
i just, as they do as benefits to the just.
Look not mournfully into the past; it
comes not back again. Wisely improve
the present; it is thine. Go forth to
L meet tho shadowy future without fear
f and with a manly heart.
Starved Into Submission.
Ihe war now waged against France
by the North African Arabs, like that
of A bd-El-Kader,thirty- five years ago, is
simply a starvation match, in which a
few officers like I>r. Tanner and Mr.
Griscom would la- invaluable. .Skir
mishes are rare, pitched battles rarer
"till. The army which happens to have
the most food and water draws its less
fortunate enemy into the barest and
driest regions, striving to wear him out
in a constant, fruitless chase under a
burning sun. In such a contest famine
and disease take tenfold moro lives
than the sword. Marshal Lamoricicre
himself, tho French commander-in
chief in the splendid campaign of
1846, sapped on the night dT his great
est victory npon a half-starved cat bo
longing to one of his officers. But to
outstarve an Arab is no such oasv mat
ter. Tho Kabyles of Algeria, when
their crop of dhaura (coarse corn)
failed them, have been known to live
for months upon tho small hard
which aro so abundant in Northern
Africa. It was reserved for tho re
morseless ingennity of General I'elis
sier, the future conqueror of Selmstopol,
to discover away of fighting these hardy
nomads with their own weapons.
Sweeping through their territory with
a large laxly of irregular horse, he cut
down in passing all the date-palms
ujion which the very life of the native
population depended. Then, bringing
up the main body of his army with in
conceivable rapidity, ho drove back the
hoetilo tribes into the region thns des
olated. and after more than half their
nnmber had actually died of starvation,
forced the snrvivors to yield from sheer
inability to drag their weakened limbs
any further.
The President's .Sons.
General Garfield does not like his
boys to be coddled. In the letter he
wrote to Dr. Hawkes at Montana, invit
ing him to come and be their preceptor
this summer, he stipulated that they
should havo rigid dnties required of
them, and be treated like any other
citizen's sons. Tee connection of this
gentleman with the President's family
has been mutually pleasing. Ho is a
quiet, forcible man, a bachelor of per
haps thirty-five, tho son of a New Eng
land Methodist minister, a graduate of
Brown university, and afterward of the
medical department of the University
of Pennsylvania. The boys cling to
him with great confidence and affec
tion. Donald Bock well, who is always
callod " Don," studies with Harry and
James Garfield in preparation for col
lege, and siuct the studies were resumed
on Monday last they have l>eon con
ducted at Colonel Bock well's residence
on Corcoran street, some distance from
the White House, where also Mollio is
staying with her friend Lnlu Kockwell.
Jim sends tho presidential carriago for
his tutor every morning and sends him
home in it at 1 o'clock, when the day's
studio* arc done, with Albert, the
"tony" colored driver, in charge. Dr.
Hawkes goos horseback riding or row
ing with the boys qnite often after
school boars. Ho finds them bright,
teachable and gentlemanly as pnpils,
and intelligent and confiding as com-
F\. punions. The crude, eccentric sayings
and doings that appear in print accred
ited to the President's sons, especially
James and Irvin, are gross exaggera
tions. They are well bred and well
controlled boys of naturally strong in
dividuality. Thai k all. W.uMngton
Qorr**pmd'nc* ,>/ frtf Timm.
( I,ll'riXlS FOB TIIK CI HUM'S.
It roins three times as often in Ireland
us it does in Italy.
There aro about 100,000 Shakers in
the United States.
Hod and green are the colors which
the color-blind arc the least able to ap
preciate.
\oung salmon increase in weight
from throe to seven pounds in four
weeks' time.
Oysters to tho valuo of $00,000,000
are said to bo consumed annually in
Great Britain.
"Starvation" is a recent word and an
Americanism. It is not found iu Eng
lish dictionaries of 1826-06.
The Colcliians used to extend fleeces
of wool across the beds of tho streams
from Mount Caucasus to catch the par
ticles of gold washed down by the tor
rents.
In Brazil and the West Indies hum
ming birds are shot with common table
salt, which is sullieieut to kill the birds,
but does not injure the beauty of tho
plumage.
The word " cant," generally applied
to hypocritical and fanatical conduct, is
derived from the name of two Scotch
men, father and son, who preached
during the reign of Charles 11.
In the time of William tho Conqueror
an English pound was an actual pound's
weight of silver and coined into twenty
shillings. Now a pound is worth less
than four ounces of silver and is coined
into sixty-six shillings.
On tha night before Capua surren
dered to the Bomans twenty-seven of the
chief nobles met at a feast, and after
supper drank one after another of a
bowl of poison, and wore every one dead
before tho enemy had forced his en
trance next dav into tho town.
Germany hm nearly 400,000 shoe
makers and cobblers, or nearlv ninetv
to every 10,000 of her population. This
is a 1-irger proportion than in any eonn
trv except Italy and England. Italy
takes the lead of all. Then come, in
the order named, England and Wales,
Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Denmark.
France, tho United States and Sweden.
It is a curious circumstance that warm
Italy should have within a fraction of
100 cobblers to 10,000 of the popula
tion, and cold Sweden loss than eigh
teen.
The United States pension office is a
most inqxirtant institution, as may read
ily be believed from the fact that there
are over 700,000 jx-rsons in its registers
as entitled to payments ranging from
one dollar np to 872 a month—
the last being the largest snm
allowed under the general laws, the
cases of Mrs. Lincoln, who receives
s■>,ooo, and of Mrs. General Shield*,
who receives 81,200 a year, eoming nn
der special a<-ts passed for their benefit.
Of these 700,000 or more persons on tho
pension rolls 42.*,000 are ex-soldiers of
the war of the rebellion, or such as have
served in tho regular army since.
Nearly all tho others aro widows or de
pendent relatives of such soldiers as
died while in active service.
Wind and Weather.
At a recent meeting of tho Farmer*'
dab of the American Institute, Mr. A. J.
I)e Voe, of Uackensoek, X. J., *ent the
following ten short rule® by the use of
which a person ran stand beneath his
own sine or tig tree in any part of tho
Northern Hemisphere (north of latitude
fifteen) and for hundred of miles aroun 1
him he can form an accurate opinion
how tho wind and weather aro progress
ing,
1. When the temperature falls sud
denly there is a storia forming south of
yon.
2. When tho temperature rises sud
denly there is a storm forming north of
yon.
3. The wind always blows from a
region of fair weather toward a region
where a storm is forming.
I. Cirrns clouds always move from a
region whore a storm is in progress
toward a region of fair weather.
fi. Cumulus clonds always move from
a region of fair weather, toward a re
gion where a storm is forming.
6. When cirrus clouds aro moving
rapidly from tho north or northwest
there will be rain in less than twenty
four hours, no matter how cold it may
be.
7. When cirrus clouds are moving
rapidly from tho south or southwest
there will bo a cold rain storm on the
morrow if it be summer, and if it be
winter there will bo a snow storm.
8. Tho wind blows in a circle around
a storm, and when it blows from the
north the heaviest rain is east of you;
from the south, the heaviest rain is
west; from the oast, the heaviest rain is
south; from the west, the heaviest rain
is north of you.
0. Tho wind never blows nnleas rain
or snow is falling within one thousand
miles of you.
10. Whenever a hoavy white froat
occurs a storm is forming within one
thousand miles north or northwest o
you.
When the Pilgrims first landed they
fell on their ktieea, after which they fell
on their aborigines.—, Boston AJrerluer.
THE HOME IMMTOK.
Whon ii mustard planter is not wanted
to blister, mix the mustard with tho
white of an egg.
To remove substances from the eye,
make a loop of bristle or horsehair, in
sert it under tho lid, and then withdraw
slowly and carefully. This is said to bo
never-failing.
A French surgeon says the simple
elevation of a person's arm will stop
bleeding at tho nose. He explains ilio
fact physiologically, and declares it a
positive remedy. It is certainly easy of
trial. Or a strong solution of alum wa
ter, snlifted up tho nostril, will cure in
most cases, without anything further.
To cure bunions, use pulverized salt
|Miter and sweet oil. Obtain nt a drug
gist's live or six rents' worth of salt
peter; put into u bottle with sufficient
olive oil to dissolve it, shake up well,
aud rub tho inflamed joints night and
morning, and more frequently if painful.
A very woak stomach .which refuses
to assimilate any other food may some
times be taught to do its Work properly
by a diet of skimmed milk ; one-half
pint taken every four hours, with some
lime-water if necevarv, is the amount
prescribed.
How a lilrl Sat oil a I r.tlu.
A Into is.stto of the Ogdcu (In.) A -
l>ori'T says: Onlast Wednesday night,
when O'Ncil, Dona.uo and Olnritead
want down to deatli, a noble girl, hut
fifteen years of age, was watching for
the safety of those whose duty called
them out over the railroad in the fear
fill atorm. Kute Shelly, whoso father
was killed on the railroad some years
ago, lives with her rnotb< r just on the
east sido of the river, and nearly oppo
site whore the engine made the fearful
plunge and Donahue and Olmstead lost
their lives. Miss Hhc-lly and her mother
heard one crash, and, realizing what
had happened, Kute took a lantern and
started for the wreck. Her light soon
went out, hut she felt her way through
the woods an 1 fall n timbers to the
edge of the dashing waters that cov
ered the drowned men. She conld hear
al>ove the roar of the storm the voice
of Wood, the engineer, who ha i caught
in a tree top. She knew that the ex
press, with its load of passengers, was
nearly duo. She, a young girl, was the
only living being who conld pit vent an
awful catastrophe. The telegraph office
at Moingoria or iroono was the only
place where she conld notify theofllccr-.
To Hoono was live miles over hills and
through the woo'' . an 1 l>ofnre •.he
could get there the expre** would have '■
passed. To Moingona was only a mile,
but betwi on here and Moingona was the
I >es Moines river, ten or fifteen feet i
aliovo its nntnra! height, and to cr< *•
this she must pass over the railroad
bridge,fiftv feet alwive the swollen waters.
Bho must cross this bridge, 40(1 feet
long, with nothing bnt tin-tie* and rails,
the wind blowing agile. Not ono man
in a thousand but would have shrunk
from such a task. Rut this brave girl
gathered aliout h<r her flowing skirts
and on hand* and knees crawled over
the long bridge from tie to tie. With
the blood from her lacerated knees
staining her dress she reached the
shore, and ran the remaining half-mile
to the telegraph office, breathless, and
in broken accents, she told her story
and fainted in the arm* of the bystand
ers. Tiie wires were set at work and a
more horrible disaster was averted.
Two Historical Incident*.
Whether from a medical or apolitical
point of view, few historical crimes have
better merited attention than the first
attempt upon the life of William the
Hilent, founder of the Dutch republic.
A pistol shot, fired by a half-crazed
Hpaniard named John Jauroguy, trav
ersed Prince William's face and throat,
causing an efTnsion of blood which
seemed to make his death absolutely
certain. No regular surgical appliances
being at hand, two of his friends re
lieved each other for several hours in
keeping their thnmbs pressed upon the
wonnded artery till help conld he ob
tained, and this simple device actnally
saved the prince's life for the time 1 ic
ing. More akin to President Garfield's
ease in the universal interest which it
excited, although widely different in
other respects, was the murder, as it is
now held to have lieen, of Connt Mira
( bean, the famous popular champion of
the earliest days OHIIO French Revolu
tion. The moment his illness was
noised abroad the peoplo closed the
street against carriages with their own
hands, nlint the theaters and roughly
handled more than one jairty of liall
goera. Thousands upon thousands
jostled each other ronml the bulletins,
and Miraliean's doctors were literally
crowded off their foot whenever they
appeared, "All France," it was em
phatically said, " attended the funeral;"
and the zeal of some admirers went fur
j ther still. •' A fine day, my friend,"
said a man to the hackman who drove
him. " Too bad that it should lie,"
gr jwlcd tbo fellow, " when Mirabean'a
dead."
A young man who in contemplating
matrimony ie apt to look on the bride
tide of life.
si ii:vrim st HATS.
Bank-note paper will stand a strain
of from three to four pounds to a square
inch.
Thirty-one pounds of iron havo been
made into wire 111 inches in length.
Copper, if suddenly cooled, becomes
soft and malleable; if slowly cooled, it
hardens and becomes brittle.
It has been estimated that tho com
bined action of ull the engines in Eng
land could raise from the quarries and
place in position ull the stones of the
(treat Pyramid in eighteen hours.
The size iff the drops from a phial
vary according to tho different force of
cohesion in different liquids. Hixty
drops of water till tho same measure as
a hundred drops of luudanum.
The latest triumph in urt and science
is u new surgical instrument called the
electroendoscopo. It is used to light
up interiors—especially those of the
human body.
The latest scientific sensation is the
discovery that ico can bo heated con
siderably above the boiling point with
out being melted. Bed hot ico is even
more startling than even a black swan
or an bonest pasha.
Tho Indian railways have a device
for keeping the air of tho cars sweet
and i'ool in hot weather which might
Well be modified for adoption in this
country, the windows of every first
class carriage being provided with
screens made of fragrant kbas-klias
gra is, which is kept damp by mechanism
connected with tho wheels.
VS. A. Hell, of New Orleans, has
patented a device for protecting the
banks of rivers from erosion by the cur
rent. It is compose,l of what he calls
"fonder blocks." a sort of mattress
composed of brush or bagasse bound
together and weighted with sand-bags,
the whole to be sunk so as to cover the
surface of the bank and bottom of the
river where protection is neeossar ..
lion Ding Should We Sleep >
i he vital process of man, lik<- those
of all his fellow-creatures, are partly
controlled by automatic tendencies.
Some functions of our internal econ
omy are too ini|>ortant to be trusted to
the caprices of human volition ; breath
ing, rating, drinking, and even love,
are only semi-voluntary actions; and
during a period varying from one-fourth
to two-fifths of each solar day the con.
scions activity of the enses undergoes
a complete sns]H>n*e; the cerebral Wnfk
hop is closed for repairs, and the abused
or exhausted IKHIV commits its organism
into the healing hands of nature, t'nder
favorable conditions eight lionrs of un
di tnrhed sleep won Id almost suffice to
counteract the physiological mischief of
the sixteen waking hours. During
sleep the organ of cons. iouanc < is nt
rest, and the energies of the system
seem to be concentrated on the function
of nutrition and the renews! of the
vital energy in general; deep prompt,
digestion, repairs the waste of the
cular tissue, favors the process of cuta
neous excretion, and renews the vigor
of the mental faculties.
The amount of sleep required by man
is generally proportionate to the waste
of vital strength, whether by muscular
exertion, mental activity (or emotion),
or by the process of rapid assimnlation,
as during the first years of growth and
daring the recovery from an exhausting
disease. The weight of a new-born
child increases more rapidly than that
of a eupeptic adult, enjoying a lil>ernl
diet after a period of starvation, and
though au infant isineajuible of forming
abstract ideas, wo need not doubt that
the variety of new and bewildering im
pressions must overtask its scnaorium
in a few hours. Nnrsclinga should
therefore be permitted to sleep to their
full satisfaction, weakly Inibics, espe
cially, need sleep more than food, and it
is the safest plan never to disturb a
child's slumber while the regularity of
his breathing indicates the healthful
nos of his repose; there is little danger
of his "oversleeping" himself in a
moderately warmed, well-ventilated
room. Never mind abont meal times;
hunger will awaken him at the right
moment, or tench him to make np for
lost time. Three or four nursings in
the twenty-four hours are enough; Dr.
C. E. Page, who lias mode the problem
i of infant diet his special atndy, believes
that fifty per rent, of the enormons
' number of children dying tinder two
, years of age are killed by Wing coaxed
to guzzle till they are hopelessly dis
eased with fatty degeneration.— Popular
Scienre.
A Family of Two H nod red and Fifty.
Mrs. Julia Ann Estop, residing in For.
roatville, Vs., is now in her ninety-first
jear, and has enjoyed good health nntil
recently. Hho is the mother of twelve
children —nine sons and three daugh
ters; the grandmother of eighty-six
children; the great grandmother of 140
children; the groat-great-grandmother
of ten children—2M souls in all. One
son has only one child, and another aon
only two children; so the other ten
I children of Mrs. Estop have eighty
three sons and daughters, an average of
over eight eech. " More the merrier,"
it is said, and happineaa greatly abounds
lin tbia household.— Shtn mdoak VaUm/.
Weather Proverbs*
Among the most curious and interest
ing of the proverbs which have sprung
from the common sayings and ex
periences of the people of various
nation* are those relating to the weather.
We have a good number of them in our
own language, and lest they may lie
forgotten in these days when any one
may learn at break fast, from the tele
gram in the morning paper, what "Old
I'rob " predicts the weather of the day
will be, we have selected a few of the
most popular. llow true is the well
known saying:
" Evening gray ami morning red
Hi ml the shepherd ■ t to tio<l ;
Evening ri d and morning gray
An- the mire igii ~f tt v.-rv fine day.
Also this:
" Ma<'ker< 1 sky, maeki ri-1 sky.
Never long w< t and never long dry.
And again :
" Haiti before w-V'li
fine before i leveii."'
There are but few children who
cannot rejwat the familiar ditty :
" A rainbow in the morning
I- tie shepherd's warning ;
A ramlsiw at night
is the shephenl s delight.'
In which it will be remembered that
in the moming the rainbow will appear
in the West ; in the evening in the East. :
The sailor often t;ik-*s the place of the
shepherd in these lines. It is to this
proverb that Lord Byron alludes in his
beautiful verses :
" IP- tfaoa lie raniisiw lo lh" Mom of lit".
The i von ing !>"* ni that smih-s tbi clouds away,
And tints t -morrow with proptn ti rav.
Then again, how true is the old sav
ing :
" Win n tin w ii ' is 0 irthwi
't'h" w. ather i- at tin Is ■ • ;
itnt it tin rnm • .no s out of tin- ©at.
Twill rain twice tw. nt\ f .ui Inmrs at the least.
The nbovenro general proverbs, appli
cable to all times ; but we have an un
usual number which dcscrilto the evils
of a too early approach of spring, or
rather of spring weather. Thus for
January w- have:
It tin ra gi •• ,u Janiveer
It gmw* tb<-arc'ix for t all Uu yi-at
And again
" V January aliruig
I w .rlh tnittiuig *
Fi ■ I'ebriar; we finil :
Of all tin months in a y.-ar,
Cornea a fair Ftlirwer "
And foi Man-It, in quaint old English
As mi ny tins' -• . in Mar h,
H. i many fr t Ir> My
A1 so the well-known ailage :
' b' Ma*, h .-..in. - in Ift. a ii *n. .1 |M • out lik
a iatnti :
I! it uu sin bk i land .it i t it lik. a
lion."
Everybody knows the Eafniliitr
Aj-nJ slniwi :f
llnng May ill. m
To which wr
A cold A,til
Tbi Isarnwill till.
v And another, praising the prolunga
' tion of the fierce winds of March :
When April blows in* horn,
TIP gil both fiT bay and rum.
For May we have the simple
" Mist in May and buai m June,
Make Ihi harvest come light soul).
And again :
" Who dotla his coat on a winter's day,
j Will gladly put it on in May.
For Juno stands the single couplet:
" A dripping June
bring* all thing* in tun.
To tiic farmers in Wiltshire, England,
we are indebted for .ill ilo-se proverbs
relating to the first nix month* of the
voar, anil proclaiming th< acknowledged
fact that a long winter and a tardy
spring promise more abundant crop*
than the pleasanter lint unseasonable
warmth which sometimes gladden* our
heart* in late winter and in early spring.
That such premature mildness of the
season* does not really advance vegeta
tion, every one who cultivates a garden
well knows.
This proverb ha* lieen found to lie
true, "There's always one fine week in
February."
The oak and the ash are thought to
foretell the heat or wetness of the sum
mer, as the one or the other pnta forth
its leaves the earlier in the spriDg ;
hence this proverb:
•' Ash lioforv oak thore'li lie > smoke :
oak before ash there'll be a smash. '
In praise of the advantages of a high
wind in autumn wc have :
" A good October, and a good blast.
To blow the tiog acorn and maat."
We close with the beautiful tradition
that when the bushes are loaded with
berries in the fall, a hard winter may lie
•i pee toil, since in this we may see the
kind Providence which prc|*rc* food
for the birds in their time of need.
—C. A. Sfh<m.
A doctor recently icproml a friend
for his too liberal nse of absinthe,—
"Ilah !** said the latter, 'Tve drank of
it since I was a hoy, and I'm sixty."—
'•Very likely," replied the doctor; bnt
if yon had never drank of it, perhaps
yon would now be seventy."
In some parte of England and Hoot
land the waapa this year are of extra
ordinary site and fierceness.
Proud Mother*.
If *ll th- inolh' ni of all the bird*
NVmM hap;* o In irii*'t Horn"* day -
In i-lio/li or glm,
Or whi-ri or wluu,
■" inatti-r no-1 000 hIJOIIIII nay :
WliMiari tin bright.*! and l**t of birila -
What woabl In i-ai-b priiid mother'* word*
Itobin or akylark, wren or crow ?
"Mill" nr< Uki- mri-i-toat l.irda I kmiwl"
if all lb" luotUr of all (). gj r ],,
Ami boy a wcri to ru"t mum day
From I'onntr.M grand
Or far l/splnwl,
No matter and III- rboiild nay :
"Whose arc tin: niftml girl* ami boy*.
Hjiite of their rngiu)i triik* and IIOIM y
I know a root In r would wlii*|ier trm,
"Mine arc tin darling*!" meaning rot.
PIVGKM PARAGRAPHS.
A muzzle over u dog'* month art* a*
a suspender to hi* pauts.
Man want* hut little here below and
ho ran get that quickest by ml vertiing.
Cabbage head* are *olid, which i*
con*iderahly more than some men ran
aay for tbcmsclvc*.
The name Silence appear* in the new
Boston directory. It mn*t In-long to
one of the masculine gender.
A firm advertises "Bathing Suits.'
We knew that long ago. It unit* the
majority, especially in *nmmer.
The world of f'xdr lis* *uch a *tor<
Tliat be who would not am- an i,
Must bldi at home and bolt In* door
And break hi* looking-gla**.
What doe* a woman care who wrote
the declaration tliat made u* free, so
long a* she can get a hustle for fifty
; cents.
The Wa*hington Critic Hay* the storm
'hat took the roofs off the bouses in that
city didn't take off the mortgage* by
any means.
A man who ha/1 tried nearly every
thing and failed became a shoemaker
and prospered. He said he was bound
to l>e KUceessfnl at the lat.
Another well-planned attempt to take
the life of the czar lias just t>ecn frus
trated. An American cucumber was
found in hi* morning mail.
It was a ftinny little boy who, when
I he saw a iLairytnan feeding hi* cows Rait,
| said he thought they didn't salt the
i buttrr till after it was churned.
An exchange thinks that the funniest
thing concerning a picnic i* thinking
about it before you start. The next
ftinniest thing is congratulating yonrelf
when it i* over.
A man can drive a hog four mile*
along a country road with broken-down
fences, and keep his temper; but when
it come* to putting on a pair of kid
glove.* —that's too much
She askisl him what she should get lor
supper, and he said he didn't care, no
that it wa* a light one. But when she
put on the tal lc a plentiful supply of
lighted candles be couldn't see the
joke.
Two persons out of every million ol
our population is the average that arc
killed by Jigljtning strokes annually.
iitUlsn a very high rate, but the un
certainty a* to which two, makes it very
ticklish business to ban against a tree
| in a thunder-storm.
j "Hi' where did you get them tron
j sera?" askisl an Irishman of a roan who
happened to be passing with a romark
j ably short pair of trousers. " I got
| them where they grow," wa* the indig
j nant reply. " Then, by my conscience,"
j nanl Tat, "you've pulled them a ycai
too soon!"
If you want to get the reputation of
knowing a heap, do as Professor Pro
tor docs. He guesses what happen* 1
three or four million years ago, and pre
dict* what is to hapi>en 15.000,000 year*
bene*-. It is only a few years since he
commenced, and now he can get credit
at any grocery.
She was dashing and flirty, and when
she said her father was a broker and
was connected with one of the leading
railroads in the country, all the men at
the watering-place were after her.
They didn't discover nntil the end of
the season that her (Maternal relative
broke the trains.
When a woman barns her finger she
cries a little over il, and keeps the burn
in good condition to show her husband
when he comes home, and get sympa
thy. A roan in the same oondition will
atick his digit in hi* month, kick over
the office stool, swear at the boy and
forget all abont it. One is the effect of
love; the other of business.
A pretty style of hair-dressing for the
morning, says a fashionable journal_
"is to wave all the hair.* We agree
with the above. In the morning it is
not only a pretty but a uaeful fashion
for women to snatch all their hair off
the back of the chair, where it has re
posed (hiring the night, and wave it
around the room to chase ont the flies.
A wasp f mud in the Yosemite Valley
measured six inches from Up to tip of
wings, aud carried in its grip sack a
' javelin three inches long. If that oiee- _
grown wasp w-re to come East and see
bow fluently a wasp only an ioeb long
can a trend the t routers leg of a small
boy and make him donee the racket
would regret that it wasn't born a' 1-I