Pla- prices. Bring in Don't 1 cost. Thanking y | kinds of ght in car 2 tore in What spirit, pure and: patient, Uttered that lingering wail? What life of storm and tempes} * Isspilled upon the ‘gale? tT § ‘ Ir the wind is the breaiti of the dying, Across the sea of light; - | : a saintly soul, replying, ‘Goes out to God tonight? "Whom does this moonlit zephy® Uplift on its white breast? Ia rapture sinks to rest? : — Elizabeth Stuart Raps. : Pootoriots In in the Sand. v5 ny ¥LORA HAINES LOUGHEAD, * E did not notice BR them at first. {They were such tiny footprints: and there were . places where the wash of the waves: had Ealf effaced ment. Te Pe ik Pn sl of even that moment of waning daylight, i and, bending low to make sure of the direction of the little footprints, ran swiftly on. : He did not stop to reason with him- {self that thus would he pray to be dealt with by another should: the lives of his children beimperiled. There are higher principles of action than that laid down by the golden rule. The instinet of humanity in him was more powerful t than | self interest, and ha obeyed it blindly, oblivious of every other thought but that: an innocent life was endangered, which | it might be his privilege to save. Once, twice, thrice he knelt in the gloom and searched for the dim impres- sions he was following, and the last time he felt cautiously with his fingers on the cold, wet sand to verify the testimony of hig eyes in the failing light. At length he seemed to hear a faint point. The ‘sound lent’ him new strength. A few rods beyond the point there was a run of clear water, often mistaken for an inlet of the sea. He and others fa- miliar with ‘the coast knew that it was a stream of fresh water, flowing down them, And he was marshes back of the bluffs in this locality, a man distraught with trouble, his i his home on the morrow and children without a roof to shel- m, His dren. He was a strong man, equal meeting the buffets of fortune and le to make his way up again, if he had begin at the very lowest round of the ladder. He could endure privation and vork, His wife was young and le, cheerful and willing. But— dren! had been watching their play for the last hour—their happy, careless. he unconscious were they of com- ng ill—until he could endure the sight nger and had rushed out into the :- gathiring night. How little they guessed . that soon they ‘were to leave their com- table home, the home he had toiled 0 Soh ard to make and striven 80 hard to : “He ‘had slipped into this strait so easily. That was always the way, Hap- and comfort were only to be sted from fate by herculean effort. 1 ty and misery waited on the beck In the beginning he had a little money to provide the nec: 4 needs implements to cultivate his place. m should he so naturally apply is wealthy neighbor, To Van ity on his place as security, and how was he to know, what people hinted freely now, that the rich man had long his sown little strip of land, which adjoined the judge's extensive, onnds? Then had come the dreadtul siege of scarlet fever, which had attacked “his ehold, and little Annie, narrowly saved from death, had been left a crip-, ple. There was a costly surgical appli- ‘ance that be had heard would draw the crippled. limb back into shape, and it was at he had asked for the second 3, secured by a second mortgage, jthat ken the child down to. the fa- ity surgeon. There was a hope— + nothing more than a hope—that some time the poor, shrunken litle limb would be straight and strong again. His heart softened at the thought of his crippled child, and 1t was this re- membrance of her that stirred him to an interest in the tiny footprints that went on before him. Almost unconsciously and without purpose he began to follow . them, wandering aimlessly about, as they wandered, idly noting the’ places where they had turned aside and loitered, marked by shining heaps of ‘shells and mounds of sand. They were not like his Annie's, these even prints of light and nimble feet. His heart ached anew as he remembered the last time he had borue her in his arms to the beach and the strange trail the poor’ little lame foot had made dragging in the sand. This child had a narrow, shapely foot, and in some of the prints there was the distinct mark of a tiny French heel. Why was it that there >a nowhere any sign of a larger footpri to guide the little, babyish feet? oo. did the little footsteps. go on and ig never in any place: returning? Who was there in ull the town that would trust a little ¢hild to wander alone on thesands, - ‘with the tide at the turn and night com- ing on? Who was there in the neigh- borhood with a little child the size of his Annie, who might have slipped away without the’ parents’ knowledge and strayed to this lonely spot, drawn by the music of the waves, the strange ‘magic of thesea? The answer brought a throb of awful triumph. Who but the people Living in the great house on the bluff? The judge's little Annie—the petted darling of for- only to pierce the cliffs at an unknown depth below the water level and to bub- ble forth afresh where the sea laved their base. Athigh water stream and ocean merged into one, but at low water the stream rippled forth to join the sea. And at the place where it welled up dangerous quicksands, One misstep and the frightened child, groping on in the night, would meet a horrible doom, swallowed up in a moment by the greedy suction of the sands. There was a flutter of a white garment on a narrow spit of sand, bordered on one side by the advancing tide, on the other by the stream, with its treacherous beds and crum*ling banks. He shouted to warn the child of her danger and the ‘waves drowned his cry. Confused, ex- hausted, terrified at the great breakers that rose with a thundering roar and fell again to dash themselves over the sand in foaming sheets that lapped her feet, she stumbled in the direction of “the quicksands; and it was on the edge of the crambling banks of sand thut Richard Mansfield caught her. . There were lights moving amid the shrubbery on the Van Alsteyne place, more lights on the narrow strip of beach’ below, defining timorous figures which searched: the tide pools and crouched and peered out upon the foaming waters, fearful of a burden they might.bear upon their breast.” Drenched through. and through, chilled and stiffened, with his strength nigh spent, he passed them all, labored up the bluff and laid his burden in the father's arms. The judge, distracted by the anguish ‘he had undergone, silently received the child, and ber deliverer, unrecognized, passed out into the darkness. 1t was as he would have asked. Strange complexity of human: nature; he ‘the wnorrow ‘with new spirit, sustained by the secret knowledge of this splendid triumph over his enemy. But fate, or the overruling power we always give his own way to a man who would suffer in silence at the' hands of one whom he has blessed. Late. that evening Judge Van ' Alsteyne, watching his sleeping child in silent rejoicing, undischarged. He went down to the servants’ quarters, where he found the men drinking the health of the house- hold in his wine. They started up sheep- ishly at his entrance, for the judge was a. stern man and somebody was sure to be blamed for the mishap that had befallen the little lady. But this time it was the judge who was embarrassed, hesitating, almost deprecating, in his maoper and speech. “Which of you was it that brought back the child? Iwas so troubled—be- side myself—that I did not notice. Which one among you was it?" There was a moment's awkward silence. Then the coachman replied. «It wasn’t none of us, sir. Twas a sands. He lives close by. Dick Mans- field; him that has the crippled child. The judge passed out without a word. Richard Manstield, the man whose petty debt, so long unpaid, had been a vex- ation to him, when his mind was ®n. grossed with larger matters. One mort- gage. had been renewed. It had become due, with the second one, the middle of December; but the man had asked for more time and he had given him until past New Year. harsh measures in the holiday season,but he had told him that business was busi- ‘ness, and that the money must be paid at the beginning of the year or he would be compelled to foreclose. The fellow had seemed so thriftless and down at the heel. The interest had never been promptly paid. And so he had a crippled tune—upon whom he had so oftenlooked | child? with jealous eyes, comparing her position | with that of his unfortunate little one. And yet it seemed impossible that a child so carefully guarded could escape the vigilance ¢ of those whose sole duty it was to watch over her. = What redson had he to go on along the narrow strip d hemmed in by the bluffs, risking ife, it might be, in a fruitless search for a child” who had doubtless played there in the afternoon sunshine, and who had probably gone back along the border of the beach, which was now . Javed by the water? If he should turn back at this moment to the home where’ gat his gcrrowing wife with his hapless et, what blame could attach to if on the morrow the tidings of I Judge Van Alsteyne’s terrible loss should be brought to him? How did it concern him was about to deal to this man persecuted him a blow more: n Sha that had been leveled’ The ‘judge was walking down his garden path, hastenicg toward the dim light that shone in the window of the cottage. The night was raw, and the wind still blustered and shrieked, sure indication of a brooding storm on the Pacific shore. He buttoned up his coat and shivered as he thought that his little daughter might even now have been at the mercy of wind and wave. A queer freak for a man to be, walking on the sands on such a night. He must have been distracied to choose such a place in such weather. Distracted? This wap the first day of the new year, and it was to-morrow that he had declared the mortgage should be foreclosed. and there was the crippled child. Richard Mansfield, sitting beside his “gleeping ‘child, his head bowed in his hands, not now in despair, butin a stout effort to master the situation before him, muffled knock at the door. He raised his head, alarmed at the late call, and ad ra : ‘cry in the distance, around a rocky]: from the mountains and sinking in the from its underground passage ‘there'were could meet the humilation and defeat ‘of | call Providénce, in these days does not | man that'd been out walking on the He did not like to use heard something that sounded like a The Judge looked down painted crib, the tiny crutch, whittled” {out by hand, that stood beside it, the patchwork eoverlet and the wan cheek Lin remembered ‘the rounded cheek of the little sleeper he had left pillowed on down beneath a canopy of lace. ! The man who could without emotion pronounce sentence upon a criminal, who was called the most clear-hedded and hard-hearted of usurers in the conduct of his private businéss, experienced a queer rising in’ his throat when he essayed to speak. ry tear fell on the faded coverlet. He reached out his hand to the man wha stood beside him, and Richard Mansfield ‘knew that his days of hopeless poverty es re in, The Grip. “Dr. L. I. Seaman, of New York, says in the Tribune, apropos of the grip: “Whether or not er is a wave which sweeps around the globe cannot be stated with any certainty, but’ there was a very extensive outbreak in Chiua during the summer, and now it is appearing here again. From a particular army post on the frontier, which came under my ob- servation, it can be said that among these men of unusually robust health and con stitution, the consecutive attacks of pneu- monia were fatal in fifty per cent, more of the cases than 1s usual among men of average health and’ strength. ¢The treatment is now better under: ; stood by the profession in general, and an attack would be handled with more intelligence and success than two years ago. | Neither the chemist nor the mi-- croscopist has as yet discovered the pres- ence of any microbe to which: the com- munication of the trouble may be ascribed, so the precise way in which it ic com- municated cannot be stated definitely. ‘It is now generally ‘admitted by the medical = profession that the ' ‘grip,’ ‘Chinese,’ or ‘Blitz-Katarrh,’ is a specific. infectious self-limited disease, spreading by atmospheric influences and due to the gists are not yet agreed as to theexact na- ture of the bacillus, notwithstanding the elaborate researches of Prudden, Klebs and others, but it is to be hoped it will soon be definitely recognized. * All, how-- ever, are agreed that it is a specific germ. Altitude and temperature seem to have little to dovith its development, though humidity has a marked influence. One of its appearances this year was in the where it has been prevalent for a month. No one is exempt from its attacks, but “those individuals whose occupations keep them in the open air seem susceptible. Witness its severity in the army, the po- tors. “No, it is not considered dangerous, consumption or. Bright's. tality runs high. The President of one of our largest life insurance com Pontes told me this morning that the, lis death claims for the last week almost broke the record. Grip, however, was not assigned as the cause, but it unques- tionably had its influence. Preventives? Avoid excesses and exposure, hot crowded rooms or meetings—especially night air.. Dress warmly and live well. If the disease makes its appearance—and you will not be left long in doubt on this : ea awoke to a sudden .sense of obligation Sabject-—send for your physician, An Aluminiom Boat. The first boat ever built entirely of aluminium was recently launched on Lake Zarich, Switzerland. It resembles in appearance and size the small naptha launches, and, in fact, its'motive power" is an engine of this kind, which has an improved device whereby the flames can be maintained while the boat is not in motion. At a distance the boat has no un- usual appearance. = It is only on near ap- proach and close examination that a per- son would notice that the boat was not painted gray, but was made of a white, shining metal. Inside everything has this silver-white color, for even the seats, gunwales and handrails are made of this beautiful = and untarnishable metal. Whenever a polish is given “the surface looks like pure silver, the ribs and plates made of aluminium, but the castings of the engine, the rud- der,and even the tiller ropes are made of the same metal. The entire amount of’ aluminum used is a little less than 600 pounds, while the total weight of the boat, including the wood, iron and cop- per parts, is 970 pounds, The launch will hold from eight to twelve people. would weigh from 1400 to 1700 pounds. The plates forming the shell of the launch are only half as thick as. the iron plates used on other launches. The speed developed was also greater than in other boats of the same class.—Pica- yune. | ; ik Belling the Cat. When a person encounters persons, danger for the sake of another he is said. to ‘bell the cat.” The allusion is to the fable of the cunning old mouse which suggested that her companions should hang a bell around the cat’s neck to give notice to the mice family of her ap- proach. “That is very good advice,” ‘said a wise young mouse; ‘‘but who isto undertake the job of belling the cat?” Archibald Douglas, Earl of Angus, was called ¢‘Bell-the-Cat Douglas.” It came about in this way James III. “made favorites cf architects and masons. "One mason named Cochrane he created Earl of Mar. The Scotch nobles held a council in the church of Lander for the purpose of putting. down these favorites, when Lord Grey asked, ‘‘Who will bell the cat?” That will,” said Douglas. And he put to death in the King’s pres- ence the obnoxious favorites. - ‘When the abdication of the Queen of imes pertinently asked, ‘‘Is a man in all J i upon the | and strife were past.—Washington Star. - presence of a micro-organism. Patholo- : table lands of the Rockies, at Denver, lice force and among horse-car conduc- unless complicated with ‘pneumonia, or" when attacking patients who are “suffer- ing from some: debilitating ‘disease, ‘as’ Then the mor-" have your windows large. “afraid of plenty of glass. ‘on: the floor and walls dries the house, ] ‘makes the fowls cheerful and happy, and t of ‘bright as outside. | disease in La Salle County, IIL, *Not only are : “One of equal size built of wood and iron Spain was popularly urged and discussed | the 1 London Ti : DUST BATHS FOR HENS. ‘Wherever coal is burned, and it is in one stove at least in most farmers’ homes in winter, there need be no lack of ma- terial for a dust bath for hens, Finely sifted coal ashes piled in heaps on the henhouse floor will enable hens to dis: pose of vermin justas they do in summer by rolling in freshly plowed land.—Bos- ton Cultivator. BEE MOTHS, Bee moths are scavengers.” They eat up unprotected combs. = Keep your colonies in good shape and the bees will keep out the moths. As soon as they get weak and have more combs than they can protect, then the moth worm has a chance. Italians are more energetic in repelling moths than common black bees, though the latter if, strong and in. good. health are able to protect themselves from real damage, though the hive may con- tain a few worms,—New England Far- mer, SALT ON ONIONS. While salt cannot be considered In’ the way ofa fertilizer for: plants, it is often indirectly a great benefit, as it destroys insects, hastens the decomposition of vegetable matter and aids in the reten- tion of moisture in the soil. Salt is also destructive to many species of fungi, rust, smmt ‘and mildew, but it must al- + ways be applied in small quantities, be- cause destructive to most plants, espec- ially while in their active or grow- ing stages. If applied at the rate of from | four to six bushels per acre to onion land just previous to sowing the seed, we think it will prove highly beneficial in preventing rust and destroying the larve of insects in the ground.—American Agriculturist: WARMING POULTRY HOUSES. If your poultry house is damp and cold hang up a stable lantern at night, suspended with wire and do not have the flame too high. It will net only warm the house some, but dries the air therein. Do not be "atraid of any carbonic acid gas, or have any terrors: about the en- tranee of:fresh air, for even one lantern ‘may not be sufficient to warm the house ona cold night, as more so-called fresh #ir (that is cold air) will get in than you ean keep out, even if you try- Another point—when you build a poultry house Do not be The sunlight ‘renders. the interior of ‘the house” as wood to absorb heat during the day. The heat of the night can be retained with a hanging lamp, but the glass should let in the heat during the day.— | Poultry Keeper. INOCULATION FOR HOG CHOLERA. According to a statement furnished by: Dr. DIE. Salmon, Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry, there has been dur- ing the last summer an outbreak of swine and the farmers applied to Secretary "Rusk for relief. At ‘their urgent request Dr. S-hroeder, of the Bureau of Animal In- dustry, was delegated to make investi- gations and to give such advice and as-. sistance as was needed. As further stated by Dr. Salmon under a later date, fifty-five hogs had been pur- chased and divided into three lots. Of these, eighteen had been inoculated by Dr. Schroeder according to. the method used by the Bureau of Animal Industry, and eighteen others by another person according to another method, and nine- teen were not inoculated, being kept by themselves, and were held to determine whether. the animals had been exposed to disease previous. to inoculation, and whether the inoculated ‘animals resisted disease better than those which had not been inoculated. According to this last report the hogs not inoculated were all well, none of those inoculated by the Bureau had died, while four of those in- oculated by the other method were dead. The subject is chiefly interesting from the fact that a committee of the farmers {agreed to pay-one-half of the expense of | the experiment, thus showing their m- terest in it and their desire for further light on the question whether any sys- tem of inoculation is a preventive for bog cholera. Dr. Salmon did not oppose in- oculation, but he pointed out dangets connected with it which farmers should understand before they adopted. it. In the meantime the report of the commit- tee of farmers superintending the exper- iment made at Ottawa will be looked for with interest.—New York World. TOMATO CULTURE, A summary of some of the results of «Xxperiments carried on for several yeary at the Cornell University Experiment Sta- tion, at Ithaca, N. Xi, is as follows: Fertilizers — The best tomato fertilizers are those which produce their effects early in the season, The intermittent application of nitrate of soda, when pro- longed into August,delayed the crop as a whole, while early applications appear to produce early results. But larger yields appear to follow intermittent application if it does not extend beyond mid-sum.. mer Nitrate of Soda Nitrate of sods i is “an incomplete fertilizer and should net | be used to the exclusion of other fertil- izers unless the soil is True, glass radiates | heat at night, but it also permits: the potash and phosphoric acid. Upon; poor, soils it is of little advantage when used alone. - Early and Late Setting—The experi- ments of two - years show that tomato plants which are early set in" the field, are less injured by inclement weather than is generally supposed,and that very, pears. to be advisable. But the results. of early setting, especially as regards earli~ ness, probably depend considerably upon the character of the plants; they should be strong and stocky. Few and Many Transplantings—Two transplantings gave better results than three, but so much depends upon cone dition of plants, their age, and the way in which they are handled, that gen- eralizations cannot be made upon the sub- ject. Single-Stem Training—Single stem training of tomatoes gave twice as much yield per square foot as ordinary culture, somewhat earlier results, and it greatly decreased injury from rot. The system. is;to be recommended for early market or choice trade or for home use. Rot—Upright and open training tends to decrease i injury from rot; and such training allows of more easy and thorough applications of fungicides when spraying is necessary. Fertilizing—Very heavy fertilizing tilizers has uniformly increased yield in our experiments, although the common opinion is to the contrary. But in order | that fertilizing shall produce early fruits, able. If stable manure is desired, only the most thoroughly disintegrated part should be used. Nitrate of soda isa good tomate fertilizer on soils contain- ing abundance of potash and phosphoric acid,but like other incomplete fertilizers it has little value when used alone on poor soils. Nitrate of soda appears to give heaviest yields when used in two or three applications, but in this latitude it should not be applicd later than the first of ‘August, else it prolongs growth too late. > Very early setting of stocky - plants in the field, even in dark and raw weather, augmented earliness and productiveness in 1890. This year the same resulis were. obtained except that there was some gain in earliness from very early setting. The tomato can endure much more uncon- genial weather when set in the field than is commonly supposed. Early setting on ‘be advisable.— Vick’s Magazine. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Have the sheep barn light and well ventilated. Breed from pure, good poultry stocks get rid of your culls. Are you doing anything to have better roads in your neighborhood? Poultry needs shade as well as san. shine; plant at least one tree in your yard. With sheep and clover the poorest soit can be made rich. Both return to the land more than they take from it. A farmer says he finds a grub hoe the best thing for prying off boards in tearing down barns, sheds and other structures. ‘Plant plenty of sunflowers; the seed is not only relished by the birds, but is productive of health, and the plant fur- nishes shade. The dairyman who does not make his cows profitably productive when ' their care and keep are the most expensive will not make the dairy pay. You cannot change your system of farming at a bound—you must do it step by step. If your system is wrong take the first right step now. ‘ During the cold snaps watch your watering vessels. The water should be turned out each night and replaced the next morning with slightly warmed water. ! Regularity in feeding, watering” and milking are important items in securing good results from cows, and comfortable the animals clean. ~ Corn husks do not make a foathier bed, but if clean and dry, and stripped up tine, they are much better than straw, and will last many years if taken out each summer, shaken up and well aired i ina bright day. Study the markets and see if you can- not learn of something’that is not in sufficient supply in your market, and then see if you can grow it. That is the way in which the *‘specialty farm- exrs’” have grown rich. In warming: the cream up to the churning temperature it should be well stirred before it is tested with the ther- mometer, for cream conducts heat very slowly and while one part of it ‘might be Just the right temperature the rest might be too cold. ‘There are some ways at least in which more protection would help the farmer. If he would protect his cattle from cold storms and winds, his poultry from ver- min, and his ‘tocls and machines from sun and rain, it would increase his in- come and reduce his expenses. A noted western man riding across the country and noticing thousands of acres of cornstalks standing in the field from which the ears had been jerked {said: “The farmer is eonducting the ‘only business in the world thay allows a+ 1 to lose’ forty-five per cent. of his ital stock ‘aud at the same time a early setting on well prepared land ap- | with stable manures or concentrated for. : the food material must be quickly avail. well prepared land therefore appears to | shelter, with bedding enough to Ecep {being sentenced for manslaughter. THE FARMER'S BOY. Bright, hopeful, with earnest eyes, And heart that knows as yet no gulls, To titled rank thon mayest rise, Be not so happy, then, thy smile. A longing oft may seize thine heart To go beyond thes fertile fields, And take in that great world, a part | + Where sold a mighty.sceptre wields In fancy, as through meadows green Thy faithful plowshare turns the sod, The furrows stretch away, I ween, To paths the world’s great men have trod. The jaded horse, unheeded now, Pursues his own unerring way, . A's back and forth he draws the plow, Throughout the weary hours of day Uprising from the fallow soil, In lovely vision, it would seem, Thyself revered, and freed from toil: Thou seest in a fairy dream. The world applauds, men bow the knee, ‘With gold thy well filled coffers shine To wisdony's stores thou hast the key, And all the joys of earth are thine. Ah, happy dream! which naught revean: Of vexing cares or many a wound From Envy’s shafts that he oft feels ‘Whom fortune hath with honors crownes Could this bright dream of bliss remain, _ Were thy desires fulfilled to-day, Oft thou wouldst long to turn again £ i And through thesefragrant meadowsstray: 7 —Marion Julfet Mitchell: PITH AND POINT. The highwayman ni is enough of a financier to know how to draw on a fek low at sight. “Language fails me!” remarked the: Professor of French who was out of = job.—Puck. - : The farmer who hides his light undes a bushel incurs the risk of needing a new barn.—Lowell Mail. . “4 In these days of chemical science the. assassin has often found that.-blood wilk tell.—Lowell Courier, The man who never gives up. rises. the answers to some awfully good undrums.— Elmira Gazette. : Upon ihe pole did Bruin sit: ‘or long hours ata time, And sadly sing of woes that cling (a2 . About a foreign b. Tommy—*‘Look out. for a cow ‘Willie (from the city)—¢ Why? Is she going “to blow her horat®--Chicagle : Tribune. “Papa, why do we wish people s a appetite,” but not a ‘good thirst?” “Be. . ‘cause that isn't’ meidpeary.—irlisgendy Blaetter. Big hats can never be’ “all ‘the rage” at the theatre. Fellows who don’t wear ’em will always hold a big percentage of the rage.—Truth., Jess—¢ ‘George says my voice is of well-seasoned timber.” Bess—‘*Howr could he tell—by the cracks in attr New York World, . : J} is. more Thsed to give than receive,” but, there are many exce | things to be said in favor of receiving, wr Philadelphia Record. The man who continually prates: about how he 18 ‘‘attached” to his wife will: frequently be found tied to: her apron i strings.—Texas Siftings.. - First Irishmap—¢‘Poor ‘Flanagan. has jist been drowned.” Second Irishman— *‘He's a lucky bhoy. Oialways thought. ; he'd be hanged.”—Comic. Love does not laugh at locksmiths. : when the key refuses to lock the trunk, two ‘minutes before starting , for the ska wt tion, on the wedding tour.—Life, The best evidence as to the ‘shortness. of the average man’s memory is that po- litical prophets’ reputations endure irons. year to year. —Somerville Journal. Baulso—*How did you manage te. get through that crowd? Ihad to wait for half an hour.” Cumso—*‘I was smoking that cigar you gave me.” —Life’s Calendar. i ¢*What made them hang your picture so highy Daubson?” aud the artist gloomily replied: ‘‘I suppose it was be- cause it was a portrait of askye terrier.” —Boston Commercial Bulletin. a ‘Handsome Young Tutor— ‘Now. Miss 5 Ethel, we take up the verb ‘amo.’ Are yeu quite prepared to conjugate®® Young Pupil—*‘La, Mr. Primus, how——: how sudden Fou are.” Chicago. Tris : bune. ¢When we were in the North Seas, »; said the whaling captain, ‘‘we frequents ly traded blubber for sealskins,” ¢‘Thatie nothing,” said Bond; “down in the . North River region my wife worked the same racket Herald. Spacer What. did the editor say about your poem on the earth?” —48aid he, would like to sce’ me go deeper into the subject.” ¢‘How : much: deeper?’ Liner—' ‘From what he said I should judge about six on’ me. "—New , You :feet.”—New York Herald. Mrs. Greyneck-—¢Oh, I'm so tired? I've been shopping all day long.” Mr. Greyneck—*‘I suppose you spent the tem © I gave you this: morning?’ = Mrs. Grey— neck-—¢‘Hvery penny of it” Mr. Grey- neck— “What did you get?’ ' Mrs.Grey—- neck—*‘Oh, I didn’t get a thing; it alk ‘went for car-fares.”’— Boston Courier. In Ireland, recently, a quarrel bad taken place at a fair, and a culprit was. The doctor, however, had given evidence to show that the victim’s skull was abnorm- ally thin. . The prisoner, on being asked if he had anything to ‘say for himself, replied: ‘‘No, yer honor; but I would ask, was that a skull for a man 2 to go to : "a fair wid #’-—Argonant. Kingley— ‘Say, old man, I haves: great scheme for getting ahead of my wife, and it may do you some good. go to her dressmaker and tell her to charge twice as much as she ordinarily would. Then I stand in for the di ence, and my wife doesn’t dare buy the gowns she otherwise would.’ —44Yes, I tried that plan.” + How did it work?” B ! Spacer—
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