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The Unseen Friend.
Lit is too long lor me. . I ennnot bear
The weary duy and honr.
But it I e''"?re
Iliy wec i-y vigil, wi thou Btill despair?
My burden weigh me down. I am not tree
To haste with eager steps.
Yet I will be
Thy help a id strength. t Divide thy load with
me.
The path is Btrange and rugged, and the night
Falls black along the sky.
I will be sight
For thee, faint soul, and gnide thy ioet aright.
Nay, but fair bomelights on the valley gleam,
And voioea call.
What doth earth's splendor eem
Better, more lasting than the glow-worm's
boamT
And is there, then, for me, no home nor
love
Naught but thoso barren wastes?
So thou shalt prove
The bliss God giveth to hi own above.
Thon, who art thou, that by me toilcst on,
Untbanked, unasked?
Friend, when thou lookest upon
My lace, thy place in heaven will be won!
Mary Jlingt Dt Vt
A BACHELOR'S ROMANCE.
A vigorous pull at the front door-bell
started Mr. Wells as, with his leet com
fortably poised on his desk, chair tipped
back, and tho fumes of an odorous Ha
vana pervading the apartment, he in
duiped in his usual after dinner smoke.
Mr. Frederick- Wells vuw a confirmed
bachelor, and notwitustandinp the many
solicitations of bis fair friends, whose
charms had failed to melt his obdurate
heart, still persisted in eschewing eo
cicty, and living with his sister alrao t
the life of a rtcluso. But Mr. Wells
had not always been so exclusive; only
a few years before he had met and loved
Lucy Shelton. tho daughter rf one of
Chicago's wealthy citizens. Thisyoun?
lady, though refusing to be his wife ac
knowledged her heart to be his, but she
bad promised her father to marry his
partner, Joseph Parker, and circum
stances over which sho had no control
compelled her to keep her word and
amiry his rival her father's choice. In
vain he pictured to her the wrong the
would do him. herself, and her husband ;
nothing could turn her from her course.
Not wishing to witness Parker's tri
amph, Mr. Wells resolved to leave
Chicago. Accordingly he, with his
nly bister, removed to the East, where
U);y occupied an elegant houso in one
of New England's flourishing cities,
in their peaceful Eastern home rumors
Had reached them ot the failure ol the
house of t-helton & Parker. Later tbo
sad ptory of young Parker's downfall
reached their sympathetic ears how.by
becoming victim of the demon, intem
perance, he had reduced his fair young
wife to the necessity of giving muic
lessons in order to keep starvation from
her door. Mr. Wells, by thinking of
Lucy as the wife of another and a wo
man false to her heart's best impulses,
sought to banish her forevpr from his
mind, and while he pitied the unfortu
nate Lucy, he still thought that she, in
a measure, deserved her sad fate. With
these hitter feelings would come a wish
to stretch out a helping hnnd to thi-
woman, who, by scorning his love, had
consigned him to a hopeless, hapless
existence.
On tho afternoon our story opens he
was musing upon a means of aiding
Mrs. Parker for he knew her proud
spirit would refuse any pecuniary as
sistance from him when the sound of
an unusually loud ring of the door-bell
aroused him from his reverie, and in
stantaneously brought his feet and chair
to their proper position. "Whew!" he
exclaimed, as he knocked the ashes from
his cigar, "something unusual is
wanted to warrant sucia impatience."
Just then the door of bis study opened,
and bis sister caiica mm to come and
9oe what had been left at their door.
Hastily following her into the hall, he
beheld, to his surprise, in the arms of a
servant who explained that she had
found " tho little thing " lying on tho
door step when she opened tho !oor
an inlant some seven or eight months
old, wrapped in a huge shawl, and
caljilv gazing with bright bJue eyes at
the astonished group, inking tue cmid in
his arms, Mr. W ells proceeded to remove
the stiawl and found pinned to the dress
a card bearing the name Lucy, and gath
ering the little form ta his breast, great
tears welled up into his eyes as he Dent
his head over , the tiny baby, face and
murmured: "Those eyes! that name!
Surely, this is Lucy's child." Then, as
it ashamed of his emotion, he handed
the child to hi3 sister, telling her in a
gruff voice to Bee to its wants, vanished
into hi3 sanctum, slamming the door with
a bang that plainly told her he did
not wish to be , interrupted ; and
here, free from mortal . gaze,
gave vent to his pent-up feelings; and
while sobs shook his manly frame, the
question, can this be Lucy's child P con
stantly recurred to him. He had not
even heard that she had a child ; besides,
he knew she was in Chicago very re
cently, in a state or abject poverty.
Dut.notwithstanding these contrarieties,
the resemblance he fancied existed be
tween this little waif and Mrs. Parker,
only served to confirm him in the idea
that this was indeed her child; then
agiin he would ask himself How
came it to that city ? to his doorP None
ol his friends in Chicago knew ot his
whereabouts, and how was it pow&ible
for Mrs. Parker thus to leave her child
to the mercy of a man she had so cruelly
wroncedP At length, not finding a
satisfactory answer to his queries, he
reaoived to keep this little foundling, to
bring it up as his own, cherish it as a
boon irotu heaven sent to cheer his
lonely life and bring sunshine in to his
heart and homo.
" Well! Elleu, how do you and the
littl'J etrn-nger agree f" playfully inquired
Mr. Wells, as he met his sister at the
tea-table that evening.
"Her ladyship and myself are on
wonderfully good terms, considering our
limited acquaintance," laughingly re
joined his sister. "Come and see her
new quarters, but. as she is asleen.
you must make as little noise as pos-
eiuiei
"Oh! ho! the little ivrant baa inaned
her decrees thus early in her reign,"
gay ly retorted Mr. Wells; "but Bhe'll
not ana an oneaient subject in me; ' and
with stealthy steps he followed Ellen
into the next room, where.lying upon an
impromptu couch, improvised with an
arm-cbair and pillows, was the form of
tne sleeping ctnld. As. Mr. Wells stood
gazing at the infantile face, the blue
eyes opened and looked up at him, while
a bright smile lit up the baby features
and rendered more strining the memory
of another pair of eyes that had looked
into his, another smile that had once
sned its rays over bis pathway.
Ellen was delighted at the prospect of
caring lor tins nttie one, wnose coming
she felt would dispell her brother's gloom
and bring joy to them both.
That evening, on returning home at a
jate nour, Mr. Wells perceived a nros
trate figure lying directly in front of his
door.
"Hello! Who is thisPTou will freeze
to death in this blinding storm," he
exclaimed, isut tne hgure remained
motionless, and, approaching, Mr. Wells
proceeded to uncover the face. As the
gleam of the street-lamp fell upon the
upturned countenance of a young, and
once beautiful, woman he staggered
back, muttering: "Oh, my God! lias it
indeed come to thisP My poor,
poor, Lucy!" and raising the lrail
form in his strong arms he
carried her into the house,
calling to his sister, who was sitting up
waiting his return, to send for a physi
cian and bring restoratives, as he had
just found L'.icy Shelton, dead, or
nearly so, at their door.
Ellen, who had known and loved
Lucy during her happier days in Chi
cago, assuring herself that she had only
fainted, immediately set about
bringing back to life the
inanimate form. At length her
efforts were rewarded ; the color came
slowly back to the pallid cheek, the
beautiful eyelids quivered and re
vealed a pair of blue eves that
wandered in a restless, searching glance,
nom lace to lace, as 11 looking tor some
beloved object. In tones of piteous
agony she wailed : " Oh! my babyl my
lost darling!" Then, as if speaking to
some unknown person, she would clasp
her poor little hands and implore the
restoration of her child .
Tho doctor declared hers to be a most
precarious case of brain fever, and that
her recovery would be almost a miracle.
as some great mental sorrow was aiding
the ravages of this terrible disease.
For many weeks Lucy's life tottered
on the verge of eternity. Mr. Wells
ana bis sister were untiring in their care
aud watchfulness, making every effort
in tneir power to save tue lite ot tue
hapless mother of their little foundling.
tor as such both had grown to consider
her.
During her ravings she reproached
her faithless husband with having
robbed her of her only source of hap
pinessher child, and besought him, in
plaintive tones, to bring back her baby,
to tell her where be had hidden their
child. On one occasion she pleaded so
piteously that she be restored to her
arms, that Ellen, moved by her entreat
ies, brought the child and laid it at her
side; but instead of assuaging, the
motner's sorrow, ttiis only increased her
agony, as, turning away from her little
one, she accused them of trying to de-
ceivo tier. "Mynusbana nas stolen
my child," she cried. " Oh ! what shall
1 do without mv darling P "
One day. after Mrs. Parker had been
ill for about six weeks, Ellen entered
her room to see after her patient's wants.
On approacning the bedside a thin, little
hand clasped hers, and a trembling
voice inquired:
" Have 1 been 111 long P Oh, Ellen!
why did you call me back to a life of
misery and sorrow P "
"Hush; you must not talk now.
When you are stronger all wiii be ex
plained," answered the delighted Ellen,
and kissing her pallid cheek, and recom
mending her to rest, she fled to her
brother with the welcome tidings of
Mrs . l'arker s recovery.
On reaching Mr. Wella' study, she
found him in a state of intense ex
citement, caused by something he
had read in tho newspaper which he
convulsively clutched with ono hand,
while with the other he pointed to a
paragraph that read :
" Last night during a quarrel in one
of ttie . drinking dens in this city, a
young man named Joseph Parker was
shot through the heart by an unknown
assassin. As Parker is a stranger in the
city, his body will be in the morgue
until to-morrow, in case some of his
friends might wish to claim it."
"A terrible end to an ill-spent life,"
was Ellen's verdict, as, glancing over
the , article, she realized how just are
the punishments of an all-wise God.
"Lucy has regained her reason," she
told her brother, "and is sensible of her
child's loss. We must conceal it
safely and tho death of her husband
from her until she is sufficiently strong
to bear this double shock."
"You are right; my dear sister," re
joined Mr. Wells : " but in the mean
time I will have the unfortunate Parker
decently interred ."
Accordingly he proceeded to the
morgue, and there recognized in the
bloated, scarred face the features of a
once brilliant man and the husband of
the unhappy Lu"y. Uy Mr. Wells'
orders the remains were conveyed
to the nearest churchyard, and a
plain marble slab erected, to mark
the resting-place of him who had
been the cauue ot his unhappiness and
of Lucy's misery.
Under Ellen Wells' skillful nursing,
Mrs. rarser's return to tiealtn was
rapid. Hay by day she gained new
strength, till at length the doctor pro
nouncd her strong enough to hear the
tidings of her child's safetv. As vet Mr
Wells had not seen her, and only on one
occasion had she mentioned her pre
server's name. This was, when speaking
oi ner past wretcuea existence, sue
blamed herself for having not only
blighted her own life, but for being the
cause of his misery. She told Ellen
tbatber lather had extorted a promise
from her to marry Parker by avowing
mmseiton tne verge ot bankruptcy,
from which this marriage alone would
save him. Accordingly she sacrificed
her heart's dearest love in order to save
her father's honor. Matters got worse,
instead of better, after this ill-fated mar
riage. Parker spent his time and
money at the gaming table, and, finally,
not content with squandering his own
money, spent that of the firm also. A
crisis was inevitable, and when at last
the bouse was declared bankrupt every
thing waa sacrificed to satisfy the credi
tors. Even her father was not soared
her ; for, when he realised the extent of
misery in store for himself and his
cherished child, he took his own life.
But her trials did not end here. Her
husband fell from one degradation to
another, till at last, from neglecting
his young wife, he grew to abuse her.
With the aid of a few friends she ob
tained several musio scholars, and with
the money thus earned kept starvation
from her door. When at length her
patrons refused to aid one whose
drunken husband waa ever in attend
ance, she resolved to fly with her child,
an infant of seven months, from the
scene of her many sorrows, to the East,
where she hoped to get employment
but here she was followed and
tortured by her tyrant husband's pres
ence. Life became almost unbearable,
and but for her child, whom she devo
tedly loved, she would have onded her
own existence. Jealous of the atten
tion she lavished upon her babe, the
inhuman father threatened to take it
from her. Not dreaming him capable
of so diabolical an act, she did not fear
the fulfillment ol this threat, and on the
afternoon of the day they found her at
their door, she left her darling under
his care, while she went forth in search
of employment. On her return after a
fruitless afternoon's labor, she found
their lodgings deserted, and not a trace
of the whereabouts of her child to be
seen. Realizing that her husband had
kept hia threat, she rushed, frantic with
grief, about the streets in hopes of find
ing some clew to the little one's retreat.
At length, tired of wandering about.
she sat down upon a door-step to rest.
Here she remembered nothing further;
and " Oh ! Ellen," the invalid continued,
"to think that I should have come to
you, to be nursed by you back to- life
yo who would bo justified in turning
me from your door, because of tho
biizht I have cast upon your noble
brotner's life. ut tiod knows, bow
bitterly I have been punished for my
folly."
Tears filled Mrs. Parker's eyes, a3 she
concluded her sorrowful story, and
trinkled down her pale cheeks. Ellen,
kissing the tears away, vainly tried co
cheer her by picturing a brighter fu
ture, the possibility of again finding her
missing child. She declared she would
never be happy while her tyrant hus
band Uvea.
Ellen, embracing this opportunity,
disclosed the details of Parker's death
and burial to his heart-broken wife, who
listened with bated breath and long
rirawn sighs till she had finished the sad
recital; then throwing her arms about
Ellen's neck she sobbed out her prief on
her shoulder.
The latter endeavored to 6oothe her
sorrows, but Lucy was inconsolable, not
so much at the loss of her miserable
husband as at the realization of her own
destitute condition deprived ot father,
husband and child. " My poor baby,"
she wailed, "if I only had you I could
bear all else."
"Then bear with your trials, dear
Lucy; your child is safe and well,"
Ellen said, and proceeded to tell the
weeping mother how her child had
been found at a gentleman's door ; how
it had been taken in and tenderly cared
for until she should be sufficiently re
covered to receive it back; that this
same gentleman was at that moment
waiting to restore it to her arms, and,
recommending her to quiet and rest,
Ellen left the room to prepare her
brother for the meeting.
Lucy had covered her face with her
hands and promised to comply; but
finding herself alone she threw herself
on her knees, and raising her hands and
eyes to heaven, in fervent tones she
thanked the Father of the widow and
tho orphan for having spared her to her
fatherless little one. "Oh, God!" she
concluded, " bless and prosper him
who, in his charity, has succored my
lost lamb in its hour of direst need."
Rising, sho stood face to face with
Frederick W ells.
For an Insnt her tongue refused to
articulate a word, but as her eyes fell
upon her lost darling, whom he carried
in his arms, she utterd a glad cry, and
snatching the child to- her bosom, the
fond mother almost smothered the
frightened little one with caresses.
Mr. Wells, standing a silent witness
of this reunion, felt amply repaid for
his long years of pain, and he thought
how much more blessed it is to give joy
than sorrow.
When Mrs. Parkowaised her eyea,
streaming with tears of joy, to his face,
and said: "Mr. Wells, how shall I
ever pay this great debt ot gratitude,
for not only do I owe my own life to
your kindness, but also that of this
child, infinitely more precious tomeP"
he answered : " By giving me the right
to watch over and protect you both, I
will be made immeasurably happy;"
and drawing mother and child to his
breast he kissed Lucy's tear-stained face.
Of course she consented, for a few
months later a quiet wedding took place
lroni tho Wells' residence, when, after
all her sorrows, Lucy Parker became
the wile ot her heart 8 nrst love.
The last New Jersey cranberry crop
of 42,630 bushels was the largest ever
known.
FOB THE FAIR SKX.
florin; and Hammer Goods.
The first importations of soring goods
are not the light woolen fabrics that
will be worn in the earliest spring days,
but rather the wash goods that are made
into house and street dresses to be worn
in the warmest weather. Two features
are noticed in the new fabrics first.that
figured goods in artistic and. Indeed,
decorative designs are most used, and
are usually accompanied by a plain fab
ric for combining with them ; and sec
ondly, the absence of all dressing in the
fine cottons, which should give laun
dresses to understand that all stsrch
must be omitted when doing them up.
The cotton satteens are first shown
and rank highest in price of these new
fabrics, an they are marked fifty cents a
yard. These have closely-twilled sur
faces with a luster like satin; the
grounds are dark, either plum, brown,
blue or the deepest garnet, and these are
strewn with rather large figures of some
graceful flower, such as fleur-de-lis,
fuchsias or lilies, with pale-green foli
age; to go with thia figured fabric,
which now makes the over-dress, or at
least the jacket waist, is plain satteen of
the color of the ground. The batistes
show great improvement over those of
previous seasons; they are as soft as
mull-muslin, and almost as transparent,
yet they are beautifully marked
with Japanese designs and quaint color
lag on the palest cream, lavender, and
pink grounds. They wre usually sup
plied with awide border of lart er figures
than those in the body of the fabric,
and thia border may be stitched on
nlainlv for trimming dewn box plaits
and around the foot of the skirts, basque
and sleeves, or else it may edge wide
flounces, or of itself form narrow ruf
fles for trimming the whole dress. Car
nation pinks, chrysanthemums, dwarfed
peonies, and otner iiowers t'.ear to tne
Japanese are repeated in their intense
colors on the most delicate grounds of
these sheer soft batistes; the price is
forty cents a vard ; the border is near
one selvedge only instead of on both
sides, like those of last year.
Scotch f?inrhams have come to be
staple goods for summer dresses, as ex
perience has Bhown that they are far
better for washing and wearing than
any other ginghams, cither French or
American, ana are worm tne amerence
in the price. They are now sold for
forty cent3 a 'yard ia exquisitely fine
qualities, and colors that are warranted
not to fade by washing, though some of
the dark shades are changed by per
spiration. The newest patterns in these
nave wide stripes maoe up or many
smaller ..tripes, and aL largo plaids,
or else perfectly plain colora. The fa
vorite combination of colors seems to be
pink with blue, and there are three
times as many bluo and white ging
hams as of any other color; besides
these are stripes in new contrasts of
color, such as olive, red, black, and
buff lines forming an inch-wide stripe
beside a pale blue stripe two inches
broad, shading off into white; another
pattern has a series of alternating pink
and pale bluo and a broad white line; a
third is made up of dark: red, blue and
cranEC-yellow. Theso colors are also
shewn in the large plaids which are to
take the place of the handkerchief
dresses of last year. Though mado in
Scotland, these are altogether what
merchants call fancy plaids, the
clan tartans having disappeared
for the present. The solid-colored
Scotch zephyr ginghams, espe
cially in pink and blue the lat
ter either dark or light will make
charming summer dresses, trimmed
with the white cotton embroideries that
are imported in larger quantities than
at any previous season. The furnishing
houses are already making these dresses
with a short skirt and very simple over
skirt, accompanied by the belted shooting-jacket,
with wide box-plaits in front
and back, or else with a yoke and full
basque, either shirred at the waist in
front and behind, with the belt on the
sides only, or it may be with the belt
passing all around the waist; the wide
round collar, like those worn by chil
dren, is edged with embroidery, or may
be made entirely of the French machine
embroidery on cambric that is now im
ported in half and three-quarter-yard
widths; there are also square cuffs ol
this embroidery worn outside the
sleeves.
Old China patterns are shown in per
cales, especially in the blue and white
patterns of old Nankin. The merchants
have shown their faith in these colorj
and designs by importing them in great
quantities; these goods are said to wash
well, especially in these clear blue
shades. Plain grounds with a border
in contrasting color are also liked in this
soft-finished percale, and dark grounds
promise to be particularly useful, such
as dark solid green with pale blue
arabesques for the border, seal brown
with French gray border, or dark blue
or garnet with gray or cream-color lor
the trimming. Theso are thirty cents a
yard.
The new patterns of Valenciennes lace
with plain meshes and heavily wrought
points are imported for trimming batiste
and lawn dresses. There are also new
Hamburg embroideries that copy the
designs of the braid trimmings ; that
ladies have been crocheting of late for
cotton dresses. Uarper' Bazar.
Married After Docking.
Opposite Maysville, Ky., is a little
Ohio village where marriages are execu
ted with such extraordinary neatness
and dispatch that the place is called the
Gretna Green of America. The other
afternoon a couple might have been
seen making their way into Maysville
lrom tne wuas ot Lewis county. Annie
t . stamper, aged sixteen, a very pietty
blonde, was tho lady, and Leander P.
Scraggs, aged eighteen, six foet three in
his sappers, was the gentleman. They
Had eiopea ; tuey were pursued by air
Stamper, and they had ridden all day to
get to the river. Now the river was
filled wita ice, and to cross to Gretna
Green seemed impossible. Two ht rdy
boatmen, however, volunteer
ed to row them to the
haven of matrimonial bliss, and
just as the boat waa midway in the river
the elder Stamper appeared upon the
shore and shonted to his daughter to
come back. The irrepressible Scraggs
determined to be chivalric and salnte
Mr. Stamper. Standing up in the BkiH
to do it, he gave one wave ot hi hat
and awav he went overboard. Mr.
Stamper pointed out Scraggy' less and
roared and screamed with laughter at
his dilemma. The crowd that had been
cheering the lovers now laughed at.
them, too. Scraggs was fished out with
a boat-hook, and, with chattering teeth
and trembling knees, and very muddy
clothes, started off with Miss Stamper
for the nearest local miaister, who
made tho twain one flesh before old
Stamper recovered from the fit of laugh
ter into which Scraggs' dilemma bad
plunged him.
Injecting Morphine.
A number of persons more or less
prominent in different walks of life have
died in thia city, says a New York
paper, within a few months from the
direct effect, it is said, of hypodermic
injections of morphine. Most of them
had, according to report, begun the in
jections in order to relieve themselves
from pain caused by neuralgia, rheuma
tism, or some other distressing disorder.
The effect was so pleasant, so delicious,
indeed, that they were gradually sedu
ced into such use of morphine when
they bad no need of it, and, soon yield
ing completely to the habit, were
destroyed by it. Physicians say that
this has grown to- be far from
uncommon among persons of wealth
and position, particularly among wo
men, who, after having tried it a while,
have not had the strength to relinquish
the delightful anodyne. Nor is it by
any moans confined to New York. The
evil has spread all over the land, though
it is naturally most prevalent in the
large cities. It is said to have grown
alarmingly during the last five or six
years, and many persons who would
never be suspected of the habit are its
irredeemable victims. It has largely
usurped the place, with certain classes,
of the old custom of taking morphine,
laudanum, and other preparation of
opium into the stomach. The
popular notion is that it io not so harm
ful. But there is very little difference,
and the injections are thought to be
more dangerous because they are more
insidious. They can be self-administered
without the least trouble, and are
so administered in nearly all case where
Berioua misehief is done. The effect of
the morphine under the skin ia de
scribed as peculiarly and wonderfully
agreeable. A delicious languor steals
over the frame, the senses are wrapped
as in a voluptuous waking dream, and a
most joyous consciousness of perfect yet
fascinating repose softly over
flows the mind. Even strong
men and women have frequently
found it hard to resist its allurements,
have not been able to surrender -its
beatitudes without arousing all their
will. On this account some physicians
will not administer or prescribe mor
phine under any circumstances, fearing
tho consequences to their patients. Not;
a tew women of the finer type have been
wrecked bv the habit, and many men,
professional and commerciihare steadily
ruining themselves by its indulgence.
It was hailed as a great blessing once,
and so it is, properly regulated ; bat,like
so many Diessings, it may rcaaiiy ov
converted into a curse.
Care or Nails.-
Some nersons insist that the finger
nails are signs of character. The slender
tapering nail, they say, indicates a re-
nuea nature wu'.cu is sometimes accom
panied by a shrewish temper. Tne
broad, stubby nail suggests natural
coarseness whieh may be allied to good
nature. W hether these are signs or not,
it is true that the care of the nails re
veals personal habits aa to cleanliness.
Nails may be greatly improved, botn
in shape and color, by proper attention.
The best appliance is a nail brush used
in water softened by tne addition or a
little borax and really fine toilet soap.
In well-brushed and well-cared for
nails the little curtain-like rim which
snrrounds them is well pushed or rolled
back, displaying generally a delicate lit
tle crescent at the root. The skin of the
finger should never be allowed to grow
up on the nail.
In paring and trimming tho shape
given should always be as long an oval
as possible. To cut a nail squarely off
gives tho finger-end a stubby look. The
corners should be carefully and closely
cut, and the center left rather long, so as
to give the long oval shape.
In cleaning the nails the knife should
never scrape off the inner substance of
the nail, as this renders the edge opaque
and muddy in appearance, whereas it
should be transparent.
The nail is susceptible of a high degree
of polish by rubbing with the towel
when drying the hands.
The habit ol biting the nails is one j
against which children should be care-
fully guarded. It is ruinous to the very
structure of the nail, and onoe acquired,
is one of the most difficult habits to
break. This is evidenced by the fact
that some men and women, but more
especially men, have a habit of biting
their nails when reading or studying, of
which they are perfectly unconscious,
An exchange combines a great deal of
sonnd sense as well as sarcasm in the
following ironical answer it givea one
of its subscribers : " We are sorry you
don't like this paper. We publish it
simply to please you. We should ask
you to come to the odce and editit.only
that if you did some iniquitous idiot
might write to tell you how much
belter he could do it himself, and that
would annoy a nervous person like you."
" I dldnt like our minister's sermon
last Sunday," said a deacon who had
slept all sermon time to a brother dea
cou. "Didn't like it. Brother A. P Why,
I taw you nodding assent to every prt r
culion of the painun."