Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 2, Number 49, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 1 June 1872 — Page 1

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IT'S THUSDBRHVO STRAXOE,"

T. T. hears people say, becaase they cannot get folk* to work tor them. It does seem strange that one man can get plenty ef help at any time, and another man cannot get any body at any time. One "women will get somebody to coine and clean house, or wash, or iron, or do any thing at any time. Another woman cannot get a soul to lift a finger. Here is a problem T. T. has sat himself to work it. It dont seem so strange to him as it did. He appointed himself a committee to investigate with power to send for persons and papers, and electing himself chairman, went to work, and here is ajpajority

REPORT

Your C'ommltte (T. T.) find that the last colored man Mr. Grindem hired, he promised to pay him two dollars lor thojob. When the work was done, Grindem gave the man a pair of old brdadcloth pants, "But," says Sambo, "I don't want them pants," "They are worth more than two dollars," said G.

But I don't want 'em. I can't wear 'cm. I'd have to whittle myself all down to nufllo, or they'd bust fust time."

They cost me ten dollars leas than two years ago, and they are,diet c.l^eap at two dollars."

Ham bo took the pants and loft, and now Urindom can't find a gentleman of color in Bagdad, or in all the city, to do a job for him, and he thinks it "thundering strange."

Next case investigated was that of Mrs. Hqueese. Your Committee find that she engaged a wash woman to do washing choap because it was small. Would not let her take it homo, but eont it by her own boy. When the washing was brought it was about twice as largo as the one for which the prlco was sot. Mrs. S. had her washing done cheap that time, but her pious girt is vexed in hunting washwomen, nnd she hunts in vaiu. Every woman who takes in washing for ten miles around knows this little game.

Yonr Committee report that "It is thundering strangO"—how terribly mean it is easy lor some folks to be.

They further report iu reference to Grindem and Mrs. Squoese, "served theni right." Furthermore yoyr Committee believe that meanness don't pay, ftntfrecoininonds that, oven in dealing with working peoplo, honesty bo the rule.

All of whioh is respeotfuliy submitted to those who read it. (signed): ToWSrTaIk 1 vf HONK8T FAHtSlKRS ur'o the 'delight of T. T. Thofo fl One place to which he can go to trade and be sure of honest dealing, and that is to tho market, or any place* whore honest farmers congregate. If T. T. goes to the city grocery to buy loaf sugar ho always finds brown sugar at the bottom of tho bag when ho gets home. If he goes to the rascally dry-goods merchants, the first yard of calico is very nico, but it grows poorer all the way kown. Eveu at the bank they put anew ten cent green back on top, but nil the rest are dirty, and the bottom one raggod. In tho city it is impoaaible to gH honest dealing, that is, from people living in the city. But then country people are so honest that it is retreating to deal with them. Little bita of strawberries on top, that don't look worth bnying. But turn the box bottom side up and out come whoppers! Who but an honest farmer wonld pnt the biggest berries at tho bottom Potatoes the same way. Tomatoes the aame, Kvery thing honest. Kven the bottoms or the berry boxes are let down by strings so that Ihey will hold more than tbey seem. So often they put a half pint extra into the boxea for tear thny won't hold out good meastm\ Then too an honest farmer, and they are alt honest, was never known to break a bargain, no matter what he couM gain. T. T. knows a family which engages its butter from a farmer aMhlriy-tive centa a pound the whole year. When it is selling at' the More for twenty-five and thirty, an4 thirtyfire centa, the-farmer brings tt right to this fatally just as honectly as a saint. When It goes up to ftirty ami rtft* cents he would at ill bring it at Ihirty-live centa—if his confounded old eawt did not dry up jost then* This family aay Vhey have w«u the hooeet^iitofidr fairly abed tears beoauae hla coava would be *0 mean. City folka are great Vwindier*, but no long as the oounuy remains true to its prevent high-toned hoeesiy the nation is safe. The boo«st farmer is the aalt.

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has been opened on Main street. It to an establishment similar to the r^ne In which the Christian f»ople of the citf tried Ibelr hand or luck a year or two aince. Ho! all y»mowd, respecta

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ble and religious psople who dare not tackle the "tiger" in his den, nor Tfeit the "keno" rooms, come right on to the "Novelty," or "Dollar Prise Store," and invest a dollar, and perhaps you wfil get a hundred dollar picture,—and perhaj8 you will not. Can't tell till you try. It is perfectly moral, of course. It is intended especially for the moral and religious people,—and fools..

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ling "straight." This kind is too much like taking whisky out of a "feltters" bottle. T. T. thinks it more like a man and a christian not to sneak into vice under oover of a false name. "Seven up," "Old Sledge," "Poker," "faro," and "Dollar Prize Store" are all of the same family, only the last is a sneak, and the others pretend to be only what tbey artev T. T^ ^uggests that there is &

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In this establishment. If the police can make raids now and then upon secret gambling houses, why not try their hand npon this open one. Come Mayor Thomas, send on your forces. Never mind "P," and his man Peter's bon-firo, but shut up this institution.

If Mayor and Marshall and police Yail to go for these parties before Sunday, let the Prosecuting Attorney and Grand Jury begin their work on Monday morning with tho proprietors of this den.

NEWS AND NOTINGS.

Illinois hps 202,7p0s C|^an5j, who poll a vote of 30,000. (,•(..* There are $1,000,000 acr^s of land in Iowa subjoct to the Homestead law.

Massachusetts law makes conductors and station agents special constables. Destructive fires are prevailing in the timber in various parts of Wisconsin.

The Sugar Beet Factory, at Freeport, Illinois, is planting thousands of acres ol beets this year.

A Tennessee hen accomplished sev-enty-four chickens at two sittings. Didn't she spread herself

Any body who peisons a dog in Pennsylvania is fined 9500 or sent to tho ponitentiary for three years.

There are three million dead oysters at Jamaica Bay, and they threaten New York with a pestilence.

A charivari party escaped from an infuriated bridegroom at Belleville, Illinois, with one killed and two wounded.

A dealer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, bought twenty tons of maple sugar from the Shawano county Indians, this spring, paying $4,000 for it.

Eminent geologists sa'y that Kngland forms tho covcr of a subterranean well of fire, and is liable at any moment to meet the fate oi the district around Vesuvius.

The Louisville Ledger saj-s that in some portions of the South it is becoming dangerous to use even the word "niggardly," the substitute therefor being "coloredly."

Owons Lake, California, continues to rise since the earthqnake, and it is thought the town of Swansea, on its shore, will have to bo abandoned in conseqneucc.

Congress for the first tlmo since the winter of 18G1 is fall. The last member from North Carolina had his disabilities removed last week and took his seat.

Tho Keokuk Gate City says As a wedding party entered the Colored Baptist Church, last Sunday evening, the congregation started up that ojLd familiar hymn, commencing: "'f -i "Show pity, Lort! 9b, Lora, tomive

A gentleman freah from the plains wishing to show what he had learned of Indiancraft, at Blooming ton, Illinois, the other day, took a large butcher knifa in one hand and the hair of a bystander in the other, and made a dexterous flourish as he supposed with tho back of the knife, but as it proved with the edge, and a very keen one at that. There was lively work for the doctor for a while, and there la a taint of brimstone in tbe air of that vicinity to this day.

Profesaer Atkim, attached to Mike T.ipman's Qnysu City Clrcfl*. which exhibited at Decatur, Ala., last Monday, ascended with a hot air balloon during the afternoon. Tt*e balloon became detached from the windlass regulating its bight, and a»cst»Aad one hall mile, when It rapidly dwAAd Into the Tennessee river. J^lktos soewteded in getting out of the basket after* desperate effort, having p»t entangled in the ropea. Some fleherfnea In a canoe went to his assistance, 4}Ut failed to reecoe the unfortunate nub, who sank and was drowned* Tho balloon was MT«d bat the corpse was not recovered, lie seems to have bad a prtawfitimtot of hla death, he remarked ae thebal. toon started, "This Is my list atefuWon."

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A French oolouy in Franklin, Kansas, has established a velvet manufactory at that place.

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The number of cannons to be uaed at the Boston Jubilee not yet decided npon, but at least twenty-five-will be used, and probably many of them will be under the charge of the same persons who had thom during the first Jubilee.

It is not the girl full of needles, nor a frog imbedded in a rock, but a cedar log this time. While digging a well at Delavan, Illinois, a few days since, a log was found at a depth of thirty-six feet below the surface. The log waa in a perfect state of preservation. Tho workmen felt curioua about that log. and they split it open, when thqy found that it contained two policy tickets, a red shirt, a flat-iron, a fine teoth-comb, a mouse which hopped about the moment he got air, and something whioh looked like' an antiquated jack-knife. Tho antiquaries of Illinois are convinced that this log must have floated over from Jerusalem at the time of the flood. V,

I5 PEOPLE AND THINGS.

Gath Alfred Townsend calls Senator Pratt the Colossal Infant. A negro doctor of Detroit announces that he will not attend white people.

Andrew Jackson Davis accuses the great Sageoi Chippaqua of writing uuder the influence of spirits.

A convict in the Michigan State prison has just fallen heir to $930,000 by the death of his father.

Tho health of Senator Brownlow has not improved. He is still at his home in Knoxville Tennessee.

A Paris paper calls Albont "An elephant with a nightengale in her throat.

Mr. Greeley thinks square poles in hen roosts give the hens a better grip, and a "square" life abetter hold on the

Edgar A. Poe pas the author 'of the phrase "everything islovely,"to which modern slang-users have added, "and the goose hangs high."

A clockmaker at Jacksonville, Illinois has just completed a dial clock clock worth |150, and shipped it to Joe Jefferson, the actor.

A man was tried at Grand Rapids, Michigan, last week, for bigamy, having married lour wives, all of whom were in court to testify against him.

According to professor John Fiskeall the planets are nearer to the sun than they ought to be, but he does not seem to know how to rectity the mistake.

Red Cloud and his company of Sioux braves huve arrived in Washington. They number about twenty-five, two squaws, Ear of Corn and Wbito Hawk, being of the company.

Many an old bald-headed business man would give the ooupons from his bonds If ho could enjoy a roll upon the grass in the Square without catching the rheumatism or losing his dignity.

A Topeka paper says that a venerable "Lo" stalked into Marysvilte the other day with a greasy placard attached to his breast, on which was inscribed, "A poor widow with eight small children."

Some of the Iowa editors are astonished at tho extravagance of a proposal to spend $75 on suggested editorial trip to Salt Lake! One ofFers to trade his whole office for a seventy-flvo dollar mule.

Her Majesty Mabel Gray, Queen of the Gypsies, is about to contract a uata matrimonial alliance in England, whither her liege subjects are said to be flocking from all parts of the world.

Herr Bnlow, the pianist.is to perform here In the autumn. AU musical critics are Jhereby warned against saying: "Man wanta but little Herr bulow, nor wants that little long," the joke being strictly private property.—[New York World.

Hawthorne said of T. Buchanan Rend: "He is a poet painter whose

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has the vividness of a picture and whose canvas Is painted with angels, fairies, snd water sprites done in the ethereal life, because he sses them face to face In his poetical mood."

An Oregon "correspondent "describes tho Democratic candidate for Congress ssa plain, aandy haired man "not advanced enough to wear a white shirt, though he succeeds in surmounting his woolen overshtrt with a paper coljar, which shows that he belongs to the present age.

Greeley doe* not haves very high opinion of his ewn poetry, he said wrote call poetry when wss young, as I soppose every youth does. I do not think I ever published much ol to though. There waa only one piece that I remember to have published. It on tbs death of William Wirt, written when I was shoot twenty-two or twenthree. I published it In the first number sf my paper, the Xew Yorker, and 11 gass It was psetty ealiah."

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Good domestics are as scarce in England as here. In Old England there are 512,582 more women than there are men.

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feminine pslate. The Woman's Mod leal, college of Pennsylvania haS 61 inutrioulants this year.

A number of young ladies in Jacksonville, His., have established an industrial school for girls. ^4'!

It is reported that the girls' boat club of Michigan University Is to take part in the college races this summer.

ANew Haven lady climbed a lamp post to see the inaugural parade. She wished to see it in a good light.

A modest and unprotected young man in Chicago had two girls arrested for 'insulting' him on the street.

A woman claiming to be a lineal descendant of John the Baptist is spreading the gospel In the streets of Cairo, Illinois.

Boston has a club of very young ladies who meet together to discuss and criticise the lectures oi distinguished transoedentalists of the Radical club.

New Orleans has a pretty French woman who gives fencins lessons. Her pupils area legion, ami she will soon have millions for de feucu.

A InBj inurirovnuuiu wuuinu mjoys uninterrupted good health, has not been outside of her house in eight

A lasy Murfreesboro woman who

not years. Mrs. Koarney of New York showed the warmth of her affection by thrusting ared-hot poker down her husband's throat.*" 1

Two tnariferous viragoes are on trial at Southwark, England, charged with garrotingand gouging out the right eye of a young woman.

Mrs. Grant superintends her housekeeping, dresses fashionable, attends Dr.Newmann'a church, believes in her husband and does not take any stock in woman suffrage.

A Western woman has got ont a patent for a new style ot billiard table with a combination cushion, which will make various noted firms in the East look to their laurels.

A Connecticut matron, past sixty years of age, ia defendant in a divorce suit brought by her liege lord on tho the ground of encouraging improper attentions from a gay gallant of seventy.

Miss Franbesca Porter, of Lawrenco, Kansas, was made a member of the State Medical association at the late session. The first experiment of tho kind ever tried in the United States.

An eccentric old lady of Portsmouth New Hampshire, in honor of the Agricultural nominee for the Presidency, insists upon wearing an ancient white hat of her husband's to Church on Sundays.

The London Spectator is etronglv in favor ol a woman's university in England, on th9 ground that the Judgment of educated women is needed on many ot the most important questions of the day.

During tho illness of the editor of the Albuquerque Review, his wife, whose name )s Leonora McGiness, set the type did the presswork, got out every issue of the paper in good shape, and bad a baby.

In Washington street, Boston, two enterprising and pretty wompji transformed themselves into a ninth part of man and opened a fashionable tailoring establishment.

The "Vagaries of Yassar is tho name of a work by Miss ltushmore, which will recount'in a spirited style the adventure of the "sweet girl with the golden hair" who dawxUqd in Yassar College.

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Sucking wet cigars is not a good practice, it appears, for wet nurses.. A member of that damp profession in Chicago is addicted to the nice habit, and tho baby in her charge being forced to adopt tho same practice at second hand, died of convulsions the other day.

At a church fair in Little Rock Ark. a set of bed room furniture was voted to a young lady with tho understanding that If she was not married-4n a vear th# furniture should be returned to the church. The yoi'ng lady is now lu the field a candidate for matrimony.

A Detroit paper announces that Miss Margaret F. Buchanan, associate editor of the Chicago Evening Post, has concluded to appear in the lecture field, and that she will make her debut in that city on June 6, with a critical estimate of the life, character and achievements of John Milton.

Among tbs rights which women en Joy in New Hampshire is tbst of working out their taxes on the highwsy. A woman st Danville was recently notified to appear and work ont on the road her highway tax of fonr cents. She took up her hoe and toiled vigorously for fifteen minutes and the tax was cancelled.

The congregation of (he Methodist church st Oentn. 111., is composed entirely of grass widows lnd crossed-in-love spinsters. The efforts ot the letter to get male members into the fold are persistent but unsuccessful, for the widows rendered wise by their varied auitriinonfaU experiences, are anxious them out.

A letter from Margaret CatttnbeB, written ia Chicago, eays "Building is the order of the day here. At the drycoods openings no one wofild have guessed that a few months ago that whole city waa reselling ont arms imploringly for help. The moet estravajrant purchases were msde by ladles who reside in the city sad who must be aware of the need of economy. It will take more flee than they have yet seen to burn up the vain pride of foolish women.

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ITEMS ABOUT WOMEN.

A class of one hundred student* in a western university Is led by a woman. Young Gipsy girls are dowuto|T a head in Persia.

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In Egypt a woman la pronounced old at 25, and very old at 30. A Kentucky pedagogue' married his pupil, a girl of twelve summers. He conld not bear to hsve her miss any

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Can it be fustly Said that a man who marries an heiress is a lover of music because he marries fortune?

Punch says it is very natural for a man to feel girlish when he makes his maiden speech.

A Buffalo girl, who most be very much engaged, has had 2000 of her photographs printed.

A Georgia man hung his wile because she had but one leg and eloped with a girl that bad no such blemishes.

George Washington was arrested at Kansss City, Mo., last week, for beatirig his wifo Martha Washington.,

Frank Gable of Union City, Pennsylvania, committed suicide last week on account of unrequited love. That was a sad Gable end.

An elderly maiden lady, hearing for the first time that matches are made In Heaven, declared that she didn't care a straw how soon she left tbU sinful world for abetter land.

We see a patent "sparker'' noticed. A man who can't do as much sparking as is good for him, without the nelp of machinery, ought to be gobbled up by a widow with nine small children.

A beantilnl instance of undying affeotion was shown by the lately deceased bishop of St. Asaph, in Wales, who for twenty years, overy day, storm or sunshine," strowed flowers on his wife's grave.

Mrs. Margaret Poteet of Baltimore has sued the proprietors of the Farmers'hotel in that place for $200,000, bocease her late husband contracted his mortal disease there. That is rather a strong way to Poteet.

All he could do, a Lafayette man could'nt light the lamp, though he used every tooth in his wife's hair-comb for matches. But there was an explosion next morning that the kerosene wasn't responsible for.—[lnd Eve. N®ws.

A French wift5 called oil an apothecary in Paris for some medicine for her husband, who was ill. The prescription was pnt up and handed to the laay with a smile. "It will be three francs.'' "Three francs!" she exclaimed "If it costs so much as that perhaps you had better keep it, for be may perhaps be dead when I return."

A young inanwho had come into possession of a large fortune^ by the doath of his brother, was asked how he was

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etting along. "Oh." said he, "I am a dreadful timo. What with getting out letters of administration and attending a probate court and settling claims, I sometimes wish he hadn't diod."

Miss Louisa E. Smith, a genteel and pretty young woii.«n of Chicago, said to belong to a respectable and woalthy family of that city, took a justice of the peace to jail with her and had him to splice her to a handsome hotel tliiof, named Amos I). Long, sentenced to five years imprisonment in the penitentiary.

A marriage was solemized near Otter Tail City, Minnesota, between a man of Scandinavian oxtraction who is unable to speak a word of English, and an Ainerioan woman who is unable to speak a word in the Scandinavian tongue. The service was performed by a Frenchman whom neither could understand.

The English woman-women thus illustrates English justice: First ruffian—"Wot was I hup for, snd wot have I got Well, I floored a woman and took her watch, and I've got two years and a flogging." Second ruffian—"Ha! I flung a woman out of the top floor winder, and I've only got three months." First lufflan—"Ab, but she was yer wife!"

A curious breach of contract suit has fust been decided In England before the queen's bench, after a prolonged and knotty argument. The plaintiff, a London surgeon, sued his aunt for. cutting of an annuity of £300 secured to him by deed some years ago on condition that be should not rnarry a certain widow. llie defendant, while admitting the contract, claimed that it was not a legal one, as there was no "consideration" rendered but the plaintiff introduced his lacerated feelings and loss of domestic happiness, and the court decided for him.

A young man in the East end of the city, who rejoices in the posesslon of a yonng and oeantlful, but exceedingly jealous wife, executed a shsdow pantomime for her benefit Saturday ntsht last. During the absence of the wife st a neighbor's, the husband cut out of paper an Ingenious arrangement of a man and woman whose lips approached a proximy not ordinarily recognised outside of the family olrcle. This article wss placed Ufote the g* light, snd the shadow fall clear and distinct on the e«ruln of a window

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A wedding trip—A breach of promise.

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Youugfolksgrow most when in love. It?acreases their sighs wonderfully. The future Empress of China is to spend #500,000 on her bridal trousseau.

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usually entered by the family. It wss not long ers the gats *ai beard to open and close, and the harried steps of a woman wars heard sneaking outside, which came to a sadden stop ss the window sppeared. The rash that followed through the weather door was so effective as to enter the outside door without a key, although the night latch watch on it.

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A yonng lady who was recently out riding became alarmed when the horse began to kick, and naively requested her beau to get out and hold the animal's leg. "How many unfortunates have fallen in war?" Said a spinster to a veteran general, who was also a veteran bachelor. "Not half so many, madam, as have fallen in love!" was the testy reply.

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VARIETIES

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Lawers are.like ivy because the greater tne ruin the, closer they cling. A thing sometimes "brought to pass" —a counterfeit note.

Smlggles says, and we believo him, thst lib idea of a grain elovator is realized in rye whiskey.

Never take oil flannel because it looks {ike spring. Flannel never Ipoked like spring.

The words Dolly Yarden may now be found in every printer's "save galley," but not in the dictionary*

A Chinese newspsper has entered upon its two thousandth volume. It has. lost nearly all of its original subscribers.

The people of Wyoming don't know whether to call their female judge a justicess of the peace or justice of the peacess.

A pocket boot-jack has beeis invented. You put your foot into yo»r pockot, give a spriug into the air, and off comes your boot. H, '.1^.^*,...!

A stingy millionnaire having died, his family wanted to have b» body k* petrified, so It wonld keep for all time, whereupon one of his nepbeWs remarked: "You'll only have to complete! what nature has begun. His heart was [w petrified long ago.?"

An exchange telfs that, "at twenty years of age, Leland Stanford arrived in California with ojnly one shirt on bis back. Since then, by close attention to business, he has accumulated over ten millions." What con a map waut with teu million Skirls? "We have a span-of horses," said an economist the other day, "on our farm that support themselves without any cost." "Why, how is thai? exclaimed a listener. "W.hy. you see," re- ,) marked the questioned, "one is a sawhorse, and the other a clothes-house."

Colonel G. was Very fat, nnd being a bankrupt, was met by ono ol his creditors with a "how do you do Colonel "Pretty well you see I hold my own yet." "Yes," said the other,"and mine too, to my sorrow.".

The Troy Time* tells about a Frcnch physician who. bleaches noses of Bacchanalian hue by means of electricity. This is the homoriipatbio treatment,founded on tho theory that llko cures like for when noses'liavo boon redden-, cd by Jersoy llghtnihg, it ought to bo? easy to bleach thorn by electricity.

A gentleman, whilo making a speoch in Lawrenco, Mass.. tho other ovening,inadvertently stepped forward and oft' the platform. To the peals of laughter that greeted his unlucky fall, he claimed that any speaker had a right "to come down to the level of his audience."

A counsel had mimicked a witness' who, as a north countryman, pronounced the word "water" as If it had been "watter" inquired ot him whether in his part of the country they spell "water" with two ts? "No," said the witness, "but they spell manuers with two ns."

During the war an Irishman posted with a musket on duty, and had* wandered a little out of his position,: was accostad by an officer with, "What are you hero for?" "Faith, your hon-, or," said Pat, with his accustomed grin of good humor, thoy told me am hero? for a century."

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A Buffalo clergyman, tpe uov: WiH cott Colkins, preached on "moving day." His text was from 2d Samuel^ 7th chapter and the lOtn verse, "I wllte appoint a place for ttiy people, Israel,^ and plant them, that they may .dwoll in a place of their own, and move no?#, more."

A Boston lawyer had a borse that always refused to cross a certain bridges* leading out of the city. No whipping, no urtpng would compel him to cross so h» advertised him "To be sold for no other reason th*n that the owner wants to go out ol town."

THE LITTLE PEOPLE. ,.

Two tons of boy's marbles lately arrived from Germany at the Georgetown custom-house. „,

A bov has been fonnd In a woli's., den in*lndi», cared for by the occupant, and eating the raw meat that" was brought to him. Is another Rome .. to be built? S#

The other day an exolted individual# acoosted strwt gamin with the question, "Say, bub, which is tho quickest** way for tne to get to the railroad do-* pot?" "Hun!" was the response, "Ob, Tommy, that, was abominable in you to eat your little sister's sharo of the cake. "Why," said Tommy,? "didn't you tell me, m*, that I was always to take her part

Boy, why did.you take an armful of mv shingles on Sunday?" 'Why, sir, mother wanted some kindling wood, and I didn't want to split wood on Sona

A little alx year old Aon of Mr. Weber of Sandwich, Illinois, is almost asex-

irt with firearm# aa a grown than. passed a ball entirely through, bis little hand and deposited it safely under his leit ojgto without previous practice

Mother," said a little boy, "Vtp got a bad hesdsche, snd a sore tbroat too."'» Well, sonny, yott shall have ibme medicine." ,, r* "It's no matter, mC I've got 'eta sure enough, bmi they don't hurt me.^

Little Harry MTIburn^of Jacksonville^ HI., got tired of drawing his baby brother around cn sHjpoent Ssnday, and thought he wonld* utilise the old' mare, who was loafing sbout the y»*d. He accordingly attacked the oarriSMto Fan's tall with a rope, and*«oon the Infeat was traveling through space St a very unbecoming rate of speed. Tho baby is ffaw carried on a nMow, and Ilarry takes his toast standing and l»» silence.