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 â-  V-4-" " ""Ji^-'itf^T^ US AtSccBby g from hantfa^ »^ strange taleg^,^ t I es away f ^^^ • c but by far ' ve heard IB told .- men of thig pjjT ectmg tour obblestone mo^ mdary of thU â€"and they are «. f- trutf o^tJe"" :onows ley were simnlt, clock by the n^ t had beenVoU^ • a sitting po3tu^'*»t Indian woman gta-! ivas dressed ina^^ rial that almost re^V nng necklace, eviZ enriched her neck! •mthiswereannnjgj?*. 'lack hair reached W ;arG were large hoop 5[l form one of the von, aciied for his rifle L i .ther stared in a^i. 1 a sight in the dead il y inik-s from any hojf J.W the motion made t I notioned for them Z\ own the trail, beckon^l fere too dumbfounded tjl they followed the tr»n ticulty, traced the fo^ of a high cliflF abonV. ip. The rest of the Btort ct:" When lawokT. gmen, " I was horrified, ave my life. I was froze, Ihe next morning ^e er and determined to next night we took out the base of the cliflF. ^j same hour the figure ap. a bright phosphorescent the cliff, and I am sure lling ' Meeneeah IMeen- lliis is the strangest assed through. I never osts, but I would Uke to ^UMilflLN CLUB. .u meeting was called to order other Gf^ tigger it up as you wiU, s do»n P*^' instances of it la dia club, -M'^-^f'^nonnded wid 'em at hon»e. vie ar s" Howker stole a wfaeel- rhen ^^ '"'^^Z; to Pickles Smith he at fust jret l^"""" clad. Ha felt dat he was oiceil »" "" J,e, and he poked hisself in ^^ailo"'";^^i.j jj,an. Howsumeber, he jjib;fari-=-; ^^^^^^^ vehickle inhiaposse- """ ;,« when his game rooster died, la-"^/Lr T.icked up bis dog an' a man ' rri-n 5-1 ^^'°' ^^^^ bankruptcy. 7' a lir dat he was 38 out of pocket, ' ^^--lfs fcun' out who stole his " ri' cnn ot,cr an' licked Whale- f'" "-^'n' -in inch of his life besides. H^T'de case of Bermuda^ones who '*â-  .loah to Condensed Cunningham. |5' " -^ " f 'own wid a piece of chalk an' ^^"'tup dat\-i.kedness paid 200 per :-"' -he went ober to de grocery, back- " in a cracker barl, an' while he I "P ' "vocer in a religus di.-cnshion W^' uZfhe tilled his biud pocket wid ^^rsSde odder. " "" "' He started out of r P-v l'eim dat he was seben cents l:2rooe ._, ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^ de re- leid an mpintle ipdvates my poultry^ Jf it was a woman, ocerywidout bein' caught at it, but yit did you feel when you met a police- or when a strange knock cum at de to the efFectHah? *^'"ilt was sich a burden on yer soul deham tasted like saw-dust, an' you )te up at midnight to see spooks standin' jer beds. De good man goes aroun' wid kit on his ear, afeared of nobody an' sre at that time, thirty on." dition is irs ago an Indian maiden nly daughter of a cluef region and starved to 4ce lalled squaw flat nt laniping parties have ilin' eberybody squar' in de eye. If he fpens to see de patrol wagon gwine along lioan' turn pale. If anybody happens to a hand nn him he doan' sink inter his ht spoken of in young men were 3ent li these parellel case with that lan abandoned on Sin s'Y'hteen years i^ay a Toothache- tely to meet a youn» leducated farmer in a a market day, and in rsation casually asked iness he had on hand. che," he replied. The 3sticn was to inquire if id it out." Blushing to dare say you'll thuik but I've been to a wise n charmed away. Follts t that sort of thing, so i well i:;ive him a trial" being received with a evilently expected, he i3ve it or not as you like, 1 something the pain be on easy ever since." listless to explain the the nerves, of a visit operator, and the agri- way to spread abroad •, and no doubt to suffer soon as he got home, ir.ider no circumstances lie cm help it, have a regular practitionerâ€" .icksinitii, with a local uueonimon handy," is â- li t-i for this extrem- notlicr form of provien till^unin, A smill I'oy, who was m dar to buy ..ts'worfof tally, seed dehuU perfor- aad t.ld de gro:er. Bermuda was .!rdhonc, knocked down in his own iL an' made to give up de fo caneseat r. in his parlor to settle de case. Did " rofit by his bidness Did he make any Lr cent oa dat? i t «: • Vin tike de case of Kumel Leffiag- ilKabar. I had six Leghorn heiw in nay an' he coveted 'em. Instead of comin „e in a'frank, honest way an' offerm' to v dose hens at deir value an' gibin me his due in thirty days, he steals upon nay -loom of midnight an' forcibly He chuckled to his- cher his' smartness an' he figgered up m per cent, profit, but a Nemesis war' his trail. He left one of de ole blue tches on his pants on a nail in de coop, an' ea I found my hens gone I walked ober his humble cabin an' took him by de neck drawed him out doors. Some of you ,v probably heard dat he went into a de- ine soon arter dat, an' dat when de post- Idftem was held three of his ribs war" „nd stickin' out of his back. " I bev figgered on goodness an badness, i' I tell you dat badness doan' pay. Some ton may hev lifted a ham at de co'ner 1 tea. "How ar" it wid de bad man He's alius ikin' fur b'ar-traps an' spring-guns. He's Ih 'spectin' to be 'rested an' sent up. A mge knock at his cabin doah sends a chill hTsback. Go whar' he will, he feels ilty an' afeared, an' some fine day when am out fitijoyin' de balmy breeze 'long as a detective an' claps de handcuffs 3n m, an' away ho goes to Jackson fur ten s. You kin tigger an' figger, but good- ssam bound to come under de wire a full tgth ahead. " Ins President's address created consider- letxcitement, and ^\'aydov/n Bebee was dywith the following preamble and re- riion 'Wiiena^, Goodness ar'moa' profitable dan i;iifi an' also easier on de conshience T, dar' fore "llmlnd, D.it it ar' de sense of dis meet- ..at we s:i;:k to goo'.liiess. " The resolution was adopted by a nnani- ttivate. and the meeting adjourned with i-hacodieeliiiii How the Suez Canal is Woiked. "^«™^r rf uhipa in the Suez Canal at great the sHghteat mistake or »ft3«^a^ therefore in Bending agnaia iwm station to station m^ht lead to very serious conse- quence. The way in which the Canal is worked frem the Suez ofBce is, like many other ingenious devices, exceedingly simple It IS ascribed to the local head of the ad- ministration, M. Chartrey, who deserves immense credit both for the invention itself and for the way in which it is applied to the tralhc. Against the wall at one aide of the room is a narrow shelf or platform along which runs a groove.- At intervals thS trough or groovo has deep recesses, and at two places these recesses are of lai^er aize^ This trough or groove, represents the CanaL The recesses are the sidings. The larger intervals are the Great Bitter Lake and Timsah. When the vessel has been signal- led and is about to enter the Canal at, eay, the Suez end, a small toy or model three or four inches long is chosen to represent her. A group of these model ships stands ready beside the model canal, each furnished with a flag. About forty have the English flag, ten or a dozen the French flag, and so on with other nationalities. As the ship comes up and her name is known, it is written on paper and placed on the toy boat. The whole number of ships thus actually in the Canal at any moment can be seen at a glance and, as the telegraphic signals give notice, the. toy boats are moved along, or placed in a siding, or shown traversing one of the lakes at full speed. Signals are sent from the oflBce to the various gares prescrib- ing the siding at which each ship must stop to let another ship meet and pass it. The official who is on duty keeps the models moving as he receives notice, taking care, when perhaps two ships going in opposite directions are both nearing the same siding, to give timely warning to the pilots in charge by means of the signal balls and flags at each station under his control from the office, and so directs which of the two is to lie up and which is to proceed. Bar- ring accidents, the whole arrangement goes like clockwork the clerk can read ofi" in a moment the name, tonnage, nationality, draught and actual situation of every steam- er he can tell what pilot she has on board, her breadth of beam, the rate she is moving at, and everything else which has to be known about her and he is able without an eifort to govern all her movements, to pres- cribe the place where she -is to pass the night and the hour at which she is to get under way in the morning, although he does not see her, and probably never saw. her in his life. How Yktoria Was Famed. Considering tiie " â- teamed relations" with hear fiJBt name, Alwrnndrnia, dtoold have- been conferred upon Beritilionor of the then! reigning Czar, of whom the Duke of Kent was an admirer, and who was our faithful and close ally. It was in the Castlereagh period of uur foreign policy. George IV, was to have contributed another name„ Georgiana. But Georgiana Alexandrina would have deprived the emperor ' of the place of precedence, and "Alexandrina Georgiana" wonld have derogated from the claims of the name borne by the actual king of England and all his Hanoverian predeces- â- ora. The name of the queen's mother was therefore substituted for that of her uncle. In the commencement of the christening of the new born princess she was called Alex- andrina Victoire, but the second name was speedily Anglicized or Latinized into Vic- toria. A little before William IV. 's death there was some flutter among official people as to the designation under which the queen ex- pectant should be proclaimed and should re- naain, and Lord Campbell, then Sir John Campbell and attorney general, represents himself as having decided this matter in conjunction with Charfts Greville and Lord Lyndhurst as representing the opposition, in favor of the baptismal name for the pro- clamation, leaving it to the queen to choose afterward the name under which she should reign. Among other absurd suggestions there was one that she should be styled Elizabeth II. The assumption apparently was that her majesty was always to remain a maiden queen, with perhaps Lord Mel- bourne for her Leicester, Lord John Russell for her Essex and Sir John Campbell for her Sir Francis Bacon. The fates happily have otherwise determined. But it is curious to think that but for chance or caprice or good sense we might now be preparing for the jubilee, not of Queen Victoria but of Queen Alexandrina or Queen Georgiana â€" I put Queen Elizabeth out of the question. Tha Bea^ that was Intenated in a i/rQniiii6r« )undary Settled. Ilr.f^sia was collecting Afgh;ui border with a i.'iis lias beien quickly tb.ir the boundary dis- has been peacefully •';iii:!ed by R-.issia on tlie last dispute ran iu; Oxus, to and across Ptinjdeh, and so on to St nortii of Kusan. It at Russia makes con- er, which is an import- pon Herat, and in ex- of a southerly branch or*ii-eastern frontier, -i.fghans. Whether nsulted^iii the matter t beyond doubt any wo European powers accepted by Afghan- ancc the quantity of be exchanged at the svesl cannot be very results in a binding ffectually define the loe, a great triumph will have been reach- to the lasting quali- Lgenienta is pardon- The ISrii hali Cold Cream- ame Patti's toilet has ear3 that when she she takes at about ings when she sings, ter to touch her neck St of her body is rclig- has a singular theory • produces wrinkleSf sort of proof that her n spit., of being con- ears of age, there i* on her neck, throat that she k^psreqW^- Id cream, which sW ja, generally spr***' i, and leaving it ^** ugh the hair-dr««i of an hour or " aken oflf very care- Madame Patti Feathered Architects. Among the curiosities of nature there are ae better worthy of study than the nests l|rdN Tiu' tkii! displayed by these little aittots is simply wonderful, and one is i in woauer at the knowledge, patience ra perseverance of these feathered builders. «petuUy is this the case of pensile birds, " suspend their habitations on branches, ftiaies hinging them over the water. weaver bird, which embraces several leties, is one of the most ingenious of the isile birds. It generally hangs its nest on gover the water, and so low down that f monkey attemps to steal the eggs, which "»pt to do, the twig bends with its weight a cold bath is the consequence. The 'li weaver-bird of South Africa is a small bird with an ambition to live a very large house, and industry enough Tl'l It ftr itself. The shape of the nest ^.ilar to an oil flask, but of course greatly I ined in dimensions, and very rough on outside. The sociable weaver birds unite r eaorts, and make a kind of thatched uT^ "^ich, or rather in which, they tleir nests. Sometimes this structure leet square. Each nest is shut out ,j *^«ry other, although all are under ^^me roof, and while the whole com- jomin building thereof, each pair itenri °^'° ^^**- '^^^ commencement is »iin?" '^â- i^li the branches of the trees we structure being neat and compact. rift "^J of Jamaici, so called from C t ' "'^8 curious nest which '"eesw ^-^P^"^ofthe cocoanut palm. Ws r ' 1 '^°"°' "^^ '^« interior of *»Iiaci: « ^alls being very strong and '°4ue,fr""" it builds several nests *S*«n them lit-*"""' ^^"'" *° °P®°"S oUte «of r «^' andtn°i^ '^^^} '"§• I* '« °a*^« P^^in flower rr*?'^^^ with the down of H^"itom' t^'^r^y probably have sug- P^«taiWv.-f^^'°'nock. r 'i"te exne^ •"""^^3^ i^^tive of India, l"^- "Meives 5°. sewing. ^^ m^tes along 1^' fi'^^r oil'T^" " sews together with Vl^^ »s beat t""^!^ piercing holes in them r't quantit? l^' ^°"°w f°râ„¢ed, it de The Insane Duchess of Gtunber^and. The Duchess of Cumberland, the youngest sister of the Princess of Wales, has become insane, and it has been found necessary to place her under medical care and restraint. The Duchess has for a long time sufiered from mental depression, and her illness reached a crisis about a fortnight ago, with the result that she manifested the suicidal tendencies which are often associated with a condition of pronounced melancholia. The cause of this breakdown is by no means clear. She has had several children in rapid succession, and had been much weakened in consequence, never having been a strong wo- man. The Duchess had looked thin and miserably shattered for two years past, and during her long visit to Copenhagen last summer all her relatives were perfectly shocked at her appearance. Her comparat- ively lonely life at Gmunden was much against her, especially as the Duke of. Cum- berland has become very soured and depres- sed. They went to Vienna early in Febru- ary, and the Duchess benefited by the change, went into society and seemed better in every way, but the news of the plot against the Czar and Czarina caused a re- lapse, and .she is now in a most critical and precarious condition. It is to be feared that there ere but very slight hopes of a recovery, as the private accounts which have reached London are as bad as possible. The Duchess IS a woman of considerable ability and high- ly accomplished. She. is the favorite child of her parents, and has always been the pet of the family. A Delicate Qnestion. The Parisian advocates discussed the deli- cate question "Has a husband a right to open his wife's letters " at their last confer- ence, and they decided that he has. A jour- nalist who hsts consulted several extra legal luminaries on the point finds thein, with a single exception, in substantial agreement ^Qotiaer „ with the lawyers. An "Enlightened priest," d'wo odder fellers got married to as faU mem e», X fcnow him weH' f ,.t\^at fellpTr's.^got th« most chedc and aaA tell tlM fafj^ieat lie' in tke bonness. He -told ne tiiat he was met by a bear once, and that he got away wil^ it. I asked to see the akin, but he said he gave it to a a mash he made in the next town but he oflTered to give me her address. She'd mov- ed. But he met this bear, and this bear looked at him. He knew in a minate he was a drummer, tbe bear did, and he licked his chops, anticipatin' eatin' him clean up. Jonty ha4 great presence of mind, and he opened, his sample case and showed the bear his baking powder. The bear was interest- ed. Bears have a great deal of curiosity. He began examining it coolly, just as if he was going to eat a drummer, and he might as well begin with the samples. He licked up all the baking powder and seemed to en- joy it. All that Jonty wanted then was time. So he skirmished around until the luiking powder began to work, and the bear began to swelL Upon my word, Jonty told me that the bear swelled up until hie floated away into the air, and Jonty tied a rope to him, fastened the other end to a tree, and killed him with lead at his leisure." "Did you ask where Jonty got the rope?" " What was the good? I knew he was lyin'" m How He "Wpnld Act. " I see by the pipers, Mr. Yager, that a woman, supposing her husband dead, mar- ried another man, when, after an absence of twenty years, the first husband turns up and finds husband Number Two occupyins his wife's aff'ections." " Ugh. Vhen I vas dot odder feller und camed home und finds mine f ran mit anodder feller I don'd meinsellef kick for dot." "What would you do in a like case " " Vhy, I let him haf her und I got anodder young von und shtard a saloon. Dere peen blenty sea in der fish vhat don'd have peen catched yit, haint it " " Yes, but you couldn't help feeling bcdiy over the matter." " No sire-ee. Bop. Dot peen blenty times petter vhen a otdt f ran anodder feller got marriedt as vhen she a cietem got fall in her und shpile der vater. I see it shtand in der baper a oldt voman fall der cistern in for a mans sresterdav. Dot vas vurster as he got anodder feller marriedt. I sooner mein frau F ABM. One of our well ezperienoed contributors advocates the sepamtion of the two pursuits, borti»ltnre and i^;rioaltare, as he claims that one man cannot do juatioa to both. One or the other wUl be surely neglected. The reason of this be claims to be obvious. Both require attention at one and the same time, and whichevw preBominates in the mind of the owner is sure^ be attended to ^t the expense of the other, hence, either de- vote your attention to farming alone or to horticulture alone. These two branches of trade, he claims, are as distinct as shoemaking and black- smitjiing, carpentering and bricklaying, coopering and pork packing. Not that a farmer may not raise fruit for his family, or a fruit raiser pla^t com and potatoes, squashes and cucumbers for his family ;. but the absorbing interest should be either one or the other, and before this one inter- est all else should bow and become subser- vient. He says he never yet saw a farmer trot- ting o£f to market in haying time with a basket of currants, a box of gooseberries, a barrel of red astrachans, or golden sweets, or early harvests, without thinking his and the serrices of his team would be worth twice the value of the fruits in attending to the crops upon the farm. One single afire planted to fruit, in his opinion, is all that one who follows general fanning should attempt to attend to, and this acre should include apples, pears, plums, peaches, cherries and quinces. His idea in the main is not an unreason- able one, but farmers will hardly give up the good sized orchard and confine themselves to a single acre, as the small fruits can be grown here and there upon the premises to supply the family, and perhaps a surplus for market, and yet not devote time to it that would encroach upon duties to the agricul- tural department. Really, when we come down to the fine point, system is required in running the farm. It would be a difficult matter to make extensive horticultural pursuits and general husbandry, on ordinary farms, work well together, but a generous sprinkling of fruit culture will not only make the regular farmer's home pleasanter, but will add to its profits in the way of food supply if none is GTown to seU. Bten Ncj [h Why it Tailed. Political Bossâ€"" See here, didn't I tell you to run this paper so I'd get plenty of votes " Hired Editor â€" " I have never lost a chance to appeal to the prejudices cf your con- stituents." Political Bossâ€" "Then how does it happen that my political strength is no greater than it was before " Hired Editor-" The people you depend on can't read," whose name is not given, answered that the doctrine of the church was that the "husband is master in the house," and that he had, therefore, a pariect right to open his wife's letters. M. de Pre sense, the leading Pro- testant pastor in Paris, was somewhat less affirmative though, as regards wives who had anything to fear from the the exercise of the right, he supported the decision of the barristers, while in the case of a good wife he could not see how it mattered either way. Alexander Dumas, looking at the question from the historic-philosophical stiindpoint, contended that what we know of the rela- tions of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden clearly establishes the right of the husband to inspect his wife's correspondence. Mme. Peyrebrune's answer was also in the affirm- ative, though she added that the question was of no importance, as compromising let- ters are never sent through the post. Sime. Adam was the only dissentient. In her opinion, the husband who opened his wife's letters was nothing more or less than a black- guard. â-  'â-  An Excellent Manager. But she ought not to have bragged to her second husband. " My fust," said Mrs. Springs to Spriggs, her second, " was given to incompatibility of temper with me, and didn't want the ex- pense and disgrace of gettin' a divorce, and so I jist put a can of kerosene near the stove, and when my fust began a cussin' and a swearin' as usual, kase hecouldn t git the fire to light, I jist p'inted significantly to the can. I married you jist six months after, Spriggs." She can't get Spriggs up now, at all, to light the fire. â€" He Found his Man. cistern only vone time in und got her drownded. I don'd trink dot vater no more. I sooner it all got bumped oud firsd. I dinks dot vas goot luck ouf some oldt vomans got some odder feller marriedt." That Aint Where the Trouble is. I " Oh, how little we foolish women know what we are dooming ourselves to when we i unite ourselves in wedlock 1" sighed Mrs. i Nagger, the other day, when her husband I suggested that a little more economy might i not be a bad thing. " Here I've been toil- ing and slaving all my life, trying to skimp ' and save, and here you are always preach- i ing economy. I could have married half a i dozen rich men, too. It's my opinion that I no man has a right to get married until he I has a home to which to take a wife. " I " You think he ought to have a home ' first, do you? ' "Yes, I do. Before he gets the bird he ought to have the cage aU ready." " Well," snarled Mr. N., "1 don't see it that way." "Of course you don't. Men never do. They think it's only a woman's place to work her life away for them." " No, they don't," he snapped out. " That ain't where the trouble is. But be- fore a man goes to blowing himself on cages and things he'll find out whether he's got a canary bird to put into it, or an old poll parrot that 'ud chatter the life out of him if he got her board and lodging in the apart- ments of Q'leen Victoria." Plenty of Women There. At a Conservative meeting recently held in Duucciu, it was intimated that ladies were specially invited, and that the two front seats would be reserved for their accommo- Brownâ€" What's the matter with Dumley dation. On tbe night of the meetine a lady I saw him across the way a little while ago, j passing tbe hall door suddenly remembered the in'dtation and and he looked quite used up. Robinson â€" He was all right yesterday. Brown â€" Where did you see him Robinson â€" I met him on the street. The Bugle had an article about him in the morn- ing, and he was looking for the reporter who wrote it. Brown â€" Ah, yes; he must have found him. meeting, and resolved, out oi curiosity, on attending, but, afraid that perhaps she might be the only female present, she approached a stalwart High- laud policeman standing guard at the door and asked if he had seen any ladies going; in. " Plenty, matani, plenty," was the re- assuring reply " the hall's nearly fu' an' every third man's a woman " â€" -«j 'â- ^ 'iie i:T f ^°"ey-eater builds a n st '*5' "e ends t -°°'^°^" ^^^ suspends aest for its young. us preparing Sr^^^Ua^e' ^^" Lent is over, and '"'^^' lurin.M?""^efor the good of tiie r*ithi «n' W.^^de the season of penance?" Bess ^»-"«Ccw*«!-^^"^^^= "Molly ' P^ooSf ^^y*'»'°? but I-hm-i to marry the new rector." Jfr. W. WAS PiS=ED OS TOV. {to Mrs. W. -WASTE NOT* ETC.," OVEBHEAKD 1» CHITRCH. a^ the plate i» mbout to be pa«««Z)/,V«MABU, nsxs tou got t^at amsbic^x qcabtsb t.-at â€" .L^rfv;.^^?^^*-* .740 J! â-  -•" .J. Hotes and Gomments. Wash horse collars with carbolic soap and then oil the inside. Before the hurry comes, provide a stock of summer wood, if it has not already been done. If stable floors are not sound, do not neg- lect them. Repairs are cheaper than losing a horse by having his legs broken. Experience has taught you something during the past year. Write it out and sen it to this paper for the benefit of others. One day's work this spring in the door- yard will tell more in future than any other spent during the year upon the farm, for a pleasant home has more than one signifi- cance. ' One Third of the wood ashes is lime, and this lime is more valuable for crops than stone lime it once having entered into vege- table life is more soluble and easily taken up by plants. Successful farming is made by attention to little things. The fanner who does his best earns his money with best appreciation and uses it with best results. Such men are the salt of the earth. The family cow should be made just as comfortable as possible and she will pay for it in yield of milk. Every hour she suffers from any cause make.^ the milk account cor- respondingly. One pound hay lost per day (and on many farms there are several) to each animal, the waste will amount to two tons to every twen- ty-fiv^e head of cattle in the foddering sea- son. Guard against having any beam, bar, or' protrusion in the stable that a horse can get aginst so as to wear away the mane. The proper adjustment of head gear and collar is also important. A kicking cow is not a pleasant piece of property to possess, and unless she is re- markably good for milk and butter, she had better be put to raising calves or prepared for the shambles as soon as possible. The best systems of cropping are invari- ably those which call for the most thorough preparation of the soil. If the farmers of this country realized the danger that lies in the path of ignorance, they would be more concerned about the future. There is always a fair demand for the best products of the soil, and when they are obtained by skilful management there is also a fair margin of profit. At this season of the year stock must be well cared for. We have had a long, cold winter, and while it has not been an un-. usually severe one on sheltered stock, the possible weather between now and the com- ing of grass may be, hence the necessity of extra care and food from now till it can be turned into pastures. A good garden, well supplied with choice varieties of vegetables and fruits, is one of the greatest luxuries of the farm and house- hold. There is no farmer but can afford to have just such a garden no farmer can afford to be without one. A good garden and a good cow will go a long way towards supplying the table with gomi, wholesome food for the family. "It's all very well," said the gravedigger, " to advise ayouug man to begin at the bottom and work up, but in my business it ain't practicable." " I hear that your husband is very ill," said Mrs. Philpot. " Yes, poor fellow," re- plied Mrs. Shooper, " he leads such a sedi- mentary life that his health is shattered." " They say fortune knocks once at every man's door," said an old pauper, who died at the almshouse the other day, " but if it iViSr came to mine, I didn't hear-it." "Why not?" "I guess I must have been in the saloon around the comer." "Mamma," said a small boy the other day, "do little boy angels wear shoes and stockings in summertime?" "No, my son.' " Do they go barefooted " " Yes." And do t^y stay out after sundown " " I presume so." "Well, don't tbft stars tickle their iEaet wW they twuKTe J" The fond mother W** nOT^luSed. .v^,v;;;,, t K i| I" f ir "