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GROWUiG OLD.

T. T. has often thought that many people make too little preparation for old age. The years speed by—five, ten, twenty—and are hardly noticed. Men are too busy to take note of them. They don't seem to think that they are growing old, or how they are growing old. It thus happens that there are many old people who are not happy. The days have come In which they have no pleasure. T. T. has known other old people wh« are as cheerful and happy as anybody. Their faces beam contentement and their white,hairs area crown of honor. They are welcomed and respected wherever they go. In reflecting upon this subject T. T. has been led to turn over in bis mind some of the elements that go to make up "a green old age."

T. T. has thought that a person who would be happy when he is old must keep his heart fresh and innocent—must not let the cares of life grow up and choke his better feelings. For instance» there is a great tendoncy to selfishness as the years pass over our heads. The old maxim that the more we have the more we want proves true, and in proportion as our material prosperity increases our generosity diminishes. When we made no more than a comfortable living we felt that we had nothing but a living anyhow, and were disposed to be reasonably liberal. But after we got to laying by money and accumulating, the spirit of selfishness began to show itself. This spirit is not to be encouraged. It is a rank and ugly woed that poisons the springs of life. If allowed to live it draws the heart into a narrower and narrower couipass, until all its better impulses are squeeaod out end there is no room left for anything in .the wide world but money and self. With a heart so shriveled up, old age becomes a burden to its possessor and a pitiable sight to others. A man needs to watch his heart and see that its finer impulses and instincts are not dying fbr laok of exercise and nourishment.

The love of ohildren is an essentia olement of a green old age. How soon they beoome men and women! He who makes friends with them and cultivates their acquaintance finds himself sur* rounded by troops of friends in his old age. He has brought them with him and be is not in a land of strangers. T. T. has often heard aged people aomplaln that the friends of their earlier days were dead or for away and they felt desolate and lonely. They were in the midst of anew generation, but were not part of it. Cultivation of children will do muoh towards preventing such a feeling. Besides, their simple and Innocent waya are an excellent schooling for rneu and women.

And this leads T, T. to a point in his discourse which will (or at least ought to) interest the many old bachelors for which Terre Haute is noted. Homo life and the rearing of a family are the best possible preparation for old age. There is something peculiarly refining in the associations of family lifo. No matter if the Jiomji be buotbto If there be in It those trne and tender relations between husband aud wife and parent and child, it is a place productive of the best results. The man wlio thinka he can't afford to marry ant! support a family, or shrinks from the care and responsibility whicitW'h a mode ofllio entai^commit* a great mistake. Married life hal its drawlackK, and It to nottioctssary to tlfloi&ticfiTfcr make ligm, otthem, but its pieasurWadft blesalagaootweigh tkose "n tMoasnnfi fold. Jt developee character and makes men more manly and wdinfegk Ironiaiily. 9as lilt to chiWren-gww HP around the hearth, homo, ft sacs&i spdt. Tbltbeif ^«.:trtti»r !llpn|f!ita wander whosnveronois afcienV QweTtrOuble rcspumAibiHty? yes, the?/ire *11 there »uri)i£nough. But they are, 09k each terrible bugbean after* aUq, .The ooin** penaations are so many, s#feesuti*Ml, ao delicate ami yet ao hard to. enumerate and describe, that they can t&'iirown onlyby experienoe. Certain it isYhat don't pato be an old bai*w even if prefect ^ioyment alone fe. xi*.ideied.

Bat think of growing old without wife or child—without home! What can such a man expect the yean to bring him? If they are fall of ennui and loneliness, what wonder? If his life 'becomes desultory and aimless, what ffrse could be expected? What has he to live for What has he to work for? WhpF has he to inspire him He may pretend that he is gay and happy and try to tnake himself think be is, bat bia heart infilled with cold, dull thoughts and he is not happy. It wants something to take possession of it—a woman's love— one woman's love. Then it will kindle and glow and the warm pulses of affection will

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wife and home and child (these three small, sweet Saxon words) will take on a meaning they never had before and the man will wonder bow be coald have been a bachelor and boarded (not lived) at a hotel so long. Then there is something to look forward to in old age—the children grown up to manhood and womanhood to keep him company and smooth the downward path of life.

T. T. must not omit another element and that is the cultivation of the mind, the storing it with knowledge and good thoughts. Some men and women live as if there were no books in the world others read some, but in an aimless, desultory way and without any intelligent selection of their books. When old age comes upon these people it finds them with empty and undisciplined minds. There is nothing for their thoughts to feed on at home, henoe they are at the mercy of the outside world. Very different is the case of an old person whose mind has been cultivated and enlarged by literary discipline. He is not afraid to be alone for his thoughts keep him company. He finds consolation and delight in the knowledge with which his mind is stored and is not atterly dependent on those around him. Uu

These are some of the things T. T. thinks people oat to remember as they are growing old. ,.

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VICIOUS ECONOMY.

There is no doubt bat extravagance and over-speculation did much to bring about the business depression from which the country has been suffering and there is no doubt either bat that prudent and economical ways of living will do much to bring about the old-time prosperity. But we must not confoand economy with stinginess, for the latter is never productive of good either to the publio or to the individual. Living beyond one's income is extravagance living within it, is not, Therefore one man may spend $10,000 and not be extravagant while another who spends $1,000 maybe. It all depends on the size of the income. It is the right and the duty of everyone to live as well as be can afford to. If he does has than this he does not practice economy but stinginess. Many persons are and have been doing this, on the plea that the hard times render economy necessary. So they do bat they don't render stinginess necessary or even excusable. When a man denies himself and his family comforts or even luxuries which he can well afford to give them he is guilty of stinginess and is doing, not only bis family, but others a wrong. By spending his money aa freely aa he ought he would be purchasing the products of laborers in many different industries and would thus benefit them by helping to keep them employed. By out ting down his expenditures, discharging his servants and hoarding bis money, he throws men and women out of employment and helps to keep them out. If any good can flow from economy of this sort we are unable to see how. This is the kind of economy to cripple and prostrate business and perpetuate the

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ing classes. And it is to be feared that there are too many people practicing just this kind of economy. One man wants a family carriage and can afford to get it, but is putting it off because, as be says, "times are hard." Another wants to build a house or bam, and is perfectly able to do it but is delaying it, fbr no good reason that he can give. Another wants to take a trip, but hates to spend the money. These people may think they are practicing economy but the feet is, they are practicing stinginesB. They are doing themselves ham and everybody else. They are helping to postpone the day when prosperity shall return and the wheels of industry shall be set infester motion. They are helplog to keep the poor man's femily plunged lawunt and adding recruits daily to the army of tramps. Such economy aa this, far from being commendable, Is vicious in the extreme. It Is pure stinginetB, and the sooner it Is known by that name and regarded in its true light, the better it will be for those who are guilty of Hand for tbo public at

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MIDSUMMER ORATOR& It has been well add by a prominent journal of the W« that this natiohis In more danger from meddling pollOdans, who are anxious for all kinds of experiment*, than from any evil* arising front

too little legislation. "If neither Congress nor any of its committees were allowed to sit again for two years, the honest masses would solve many of the questions now pending before the people. Every section of the United States has experienced the reverses of business and. every class has felt tto burden. Nothing bat honest labor and loyalty to order and good government will give any permanent relief. The whole train of questions propounded by trades unions and workingmen's organizations will be solved, not by legislation, but by a return.of public confidence in the stability of values, and the settled policy of the government. Every movement made that breaks the bonds of union between capital and labor removes the period of prosperity farther into the future, and makes more hopeless the bard lot of those dependent upon daily labor."

There' Is much troth in this. That country only is happy and prosperous whose laborers are free, intelligent and contented and have within their reach the comforts of life. How shall these conditions be brought about Certainly not by the visionary schemes of transitory fanatics who do not know what they are talking about. It is safe to say that men who have not been able to^onduct their own. private affairs successfully will make but poor managers of the affairs of a great natiom Let every laboring man think earnestly and intelligently for himself and not be led away thoughtlessly by orators whose sounding words and plentiful epithets serve rather to obseure than to elucidate the subject .gf their discourse.

^People and Things.

hm-"! "A fall ticket"—All the candidates drunk,

Butler is Kearney's Benny-factor.—N. Y. Herald. W Does a young man with one arm have an off-hand way of doing things?

Blaine also is sprinkling the tail of the bird of freedom with a little hayseed. Dog days end on the 20th of August. Frost in four weeks. Get out your ulsters. '4 ',

A boy says that when he eats watermelon his mouth feels as if it were in in 7

Mr. O'Kearney's "mission" isevidently to raise h—larity wherever he goes.— Omaha Herald.

One Western journal forcibly characterizes another as "vacillating as a flea twenty minutes after bedtime." -','V "How old are yon?" asked a conductor of a little girl who was trying to ride on half fare. "Iam nine at home, but In the cars I am only six and a half."

Modern finance seems to consist of doing business with other folks' money, and in sach a way that whatever happens it will be their money that is lost, an no

First witch to her husband, when she wanted him to get up and hurl the bootjack down on the woodshed roof:

Thrice, the bundled cat hath mew'd" -Oil City Derrick, A chronic growler, who lives in a boarding house on Girard street, keeps the landlady In a state of torment by al ways remarking at meal time, "Things arc getting tough, I tell you."

The ^Upse stopped a game of base ball at Utlca, N. Y. This soft of thing must not occur again, and the heavenly bodies might as well understand It at once.—New Orleans Ploayune.

It requires great moral strength and tenacity of purpose to enable a man to sleep till seven In the morning when an industrious fly has decided that he had better get up at half past four.—New Haven Register. \n ,,

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An old gentleman has just died in Illinois who held theoffioe of postmaster in a town for more than thirty years. He said ho thought he might have worried through another summer if there hadn't been so many postal cards to read.—Washington Post

Making the best of it is a good rale for everybody. "What is the matter?" asked a lawyer of bis coachman. "The horses are running away, sir." "Can you not pull them up?" "I am afraid not," "Then," said the lawyer, after judicious delay, "ran into something cheap."

It Isn't sweet to hear the bulldog growl, nor the noisy cackling of the old man's fowl but obi bow sweet to hear the old folks snore, as we crawl upstairs and scoot past their door. And sweeter still, oh! yes, by far, to open our door without a jar, to dose it, too, without any noise, and soon fell asloeg like good lltUe boys. "I never see such a fellow tc growl as you are,0 said one leading resident to another In a saloon on Commercial row. "Nothing satisfies you. You put me in ml&4 of old Crab^ororln^tarysville. He found his toes stickln' up o&e mortiin' an' went to heaven. Another of the boy* pegged out and went tbexehimseii. He hunted up Crabb an' asked him bow

he was gittin' along, (an' how he liked the layout.' 'Well,' says Crabb, 'it's fair, that's a feet, but I ain't qiiite comfortable. You see, I got my wings wet comin' up, an' this d——d halo don't fi( me.'"—Reno (Nev.) Gazette.' '.

Little bits of lemon Little chunks of ice, Xdttle water and sugar, & 1 nice. Make a man feel —Boston Post. Little drinks of whisky, *3 Larger ones, torshakes,

Gin cooktaLs ad libitum. Make a man see snakes. —Keokuk Constitution.

frrenchl La petite Marie had lejpne mnttong Zee wool was blanohe as se snow

And everywhere is belle Marie went, Le jane muttong was sure te go. bui, monsieur von avez un very laige Imagination mais comment est this, pour Deutsche:

Dot Mary haf got eln leedle schaf "a oi Mit hair yast like some vool .. Und all derblaoe dot gal did vent,

Das schaf go like, eia fool. The municipality of Prague has forbidden the wearing of dresses with trains upon the streets, because of the dust, injurious to the public health, raised by them.

The Congregational ist tells a story of a member of a fashionable up town congregation in New York City, who called at a musio store and inquired: "Have you the notes of apiece called the 'Song of Solomon?'" saying: "Our pastor referred to it yesterday ^morning as an exquisite gem, and my wife would like to learn to play it."

A young man made his appearance at Deadwood last week in a pair of white pants.. He was promptly escorted to the cars, put on board of them, and an injunction placed on him never to revisit the place. "We can stand a biled shirt, you know/' a miner explained, "but when it comes tO wfeariug biled drawers, we just make thWm git tip and git."

A passenger on the New York Elevated R&ilway remarked to Mr. Pullman: "Are not these cars too idee for the general mob?" "There's nothing too nice for the people,' replied Mr. Pullman. "People behave themselves better when they enter a car like this. It Is suggestive to them of refinement and elegance. It has an educating effect, I believe, a refining influenoe, as has everything elegant or beantifal."

Little Grade was dressed on day. in the whitest of dresses when, being left alone, she begsn to investigate a coal hod, getting luslde, and as black as possible. When her mother came back, Grade, seeing her look of amazement, dropped on her knees, put her little chubby black hands before her fcce tmd said, "O, Lord, give us patience"—and He did. At least Grade got off easily that time.—Exchange.

A young man at Rye Beach, while smoking cigar a few days since, had great difficulty in making it burn. After he had been trying some time he tore it to pieces. Inside the wrapper he found two-caliber pistol cartridge. Thebul let was pointed toward the mouth end of th* cigar. Had be been successful in making the cigar burn but a few momenta longer an explosion would have occurred, aa the cartridge was already heated.—Opellka (Ala.) Observer.

To find out whether a garden has been planted or not, a paper gives the foilowing rule: "If one forgets whether beds are planted or not, a good way to tell is to turn a stray cat into the gar den. If the beds are planted, the cat will proceed and race around and dig into them, and act as if it had relatives in China In was anxious to get at while, if they are not, it will sit down calmly in the path and seem to be meditating on the progress of missionary work In Africa. A cat's instinct seldom deceives In this matter.". -i

1HSPLA OF ALL PLA YS. New York Clipper. •May Cody' saw 'Jane Byre' on 'fifth Avenue' and gave her 'Blow for Blow' for trying to mash 'Buffalo Bill' daring his 'Life on the Border,' where he fell in with 'The Danites' and brought them to The Dark City but it was so dark they couldn't see it, so they took a trip to 'Saratoga,' where they found out, without the aid of 'The Mighty Dollar,' that they couldn't stop at "Our Boarding House.' Seeing no 'life' there, they oarne back to New York in time to see 'Colonel Sellers' give his 'Baby' to "Ihe Crushed Tragedian.' When asked why be did so he said it was The Law of the Land' that 'Nobody's child' should be allowed 'Behind the Scenes,' and that he would ran no 'Risks' for 'That Wife of Mine' has adopted 'Two Orphans' just because they wore ptetty "Pink Dominoes,? and he oouidn't afford to spend all bis 'Money' when he had just 'Struck Oil.' He then offered them some 'Lemons,' but they didn't like 'Forbidden Fruitso4Amos Clark' proposed a trip to 'Woodleigh,' where they could sit 'Under tbo Willows' and not be troubled by 'The Poor of New York,' One of the •Secret Service' gentlemen then came In and said: 'I am looking for "a party by the Name of Johnson" who has just "Escaped from 8lng8ing}"_ but 2 have heard ne married *'MiaB Multon," and they are now on tbetr "Bridal Tour."' It Is strange 'How Women Love' 'Our Boys/ Miehtl' loved 'Ah Sin,'but wrt*ted AaftS^TheShanghw^^and' then married 'Poor Jo* thrOU 'Pinae.' They eoaklnt be happy eras'Man and Wife,* so they 'Pi And now I myself will take The Over* land Ronte' 'Across tbe Continent' In ilm» to be present at tee 'Marriage* Of 'Smlke'and "The Princess Royal.'

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An JSngllsh paper eixpWas that "Mimmie" is softie for Emily. 1!

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Womeii shOuld. never study languages. One tongue is:quite suffldent A Massachusetts girl1 has departed alone for Siam, to marry her lover, a printer.

It wasa Boston girl who referred to Beaoonsfield's new honor as "the order of the elastic."

The Chicago Times teUs the^?ostonienne that "in the surf oulohah doesnt count for as much as figah."

Veils are not worn by quite young l*-: dies they must not wear lace till they are twenty-one, or married,' ^1

A fair Nebraska maiden spent two hours drcus day, trying to get a bushel of feet into a peck^of shoesi^ r:^

Some infatuated girl or- womanlias presented the irasdble but adorable Rig* nold with a gold mustache comb.

A fashion item says "marigold" is now a favorite shade Of yellow." The ladles always were partial to marry-gold.

The Philadelphia "Bulletin" suggests that graduates of female colleges be given the title of "Spinsters of Art."

Dr. Aurelia B. Gilbert,' a graduate of the Boston University M!edlcal School, has a good practice in Louisville Ky.

According to the Washington Capital, a sentimental German gave ids sweetheart a flower which he called "Don't or it

The girls of Tuscola,* Illinois, place a blueribbon anda mitten on a table when their lovers oome to visit them! and say,"Choose."' :'t7

Miss Sue Harry Claggett, daughter^ of the late editor of the Keokuk (la.) "Constitution," succeeds her father in the ed itorsbip of thai paper. 'here's no place like home"—unless it's some nioe young girl's home, when tbe old "folks «re at cites meeting, and the match'. is empty.

In the United States there are five hundred and thirty women practldng as doctors, four litindred and twenty as dentists, flve as lawyers, and sixty elgbt as preachers. H./.y.'' f' "I come to aak f^ur hand," said a lover to his sweethearts "You ask a great deal," replied she, as she proceeded to lay a pal in in M? two-thirds larger than his. own

Tying her bonnet under her chin, Bbe tied her roving ringlitslu Bnt notaloneln tba silKen uMirti' Did the eatoh herjovely floating hair For, tying her bftnnet under her chin, 8he tied a young mam's hfiart^wlthln^

"What good is they, anyhow soorpfully remarked a rboot-black, referring' to the fair sex "Did yen. ev«r know 'em to stop and give'a feller a Job? Not much! They aln'.t .got. no shoes.! on fit to blacked, any ways."

Women are employed as letter carriers in Wales. They, are selected because they have none otthe cuziosity common to this other sMc, *tyd th4 pofttal rards, consequently, are deilveredmobb eaztier. —[New H^ven It^ister/

Tis rleasant at'fbe elose efday tit Topliy 'i Qseiuek::.'"

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But if she gives yoar Shin a thwack*," Why, thwack, Ho'teck! —at. Leuls JournaL A dozen yodng lailies of New tendon, Conn., have taken a commodious ferm house oq the shore at Great Neok, and will camp ont ftw a few weeks. A man drove the horse which carried them there, but they dismissed, Jbdm at .the thresbold of their retreat.

Dr. Johnson once silenced a notorious female backbiter, who waa condemning some of her Mends for painting their cheeks, by the remark that "It is a far lees harmful thing for a lady to redden her own complexion than to blacked her neighbor's.

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Conversation overheard in a streetcar —Smith to Jones, who carries a wellfilled satchel—"Hello, Jones, where are you going?" "Off for the country for a week." "Are you going for pleasure, br do you take your wife?" "Going for pleasure—wife gone to her mother^— N. Y. MaiL ,.,Z

From the way somd df these"gf&ls JOOk in their walking dresses, pulled back and tied tight aronnd below the knees, two peanuts twice a day, and a grasshopper on toast twice a month would make 'em fat. Their waists look like the thin part of an hour-glass with very little sand in it»—^Courier*

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Woman is naturally gjfted with quicker wit, better judgment, greater selfpossession than man, but there are very, very few women who can appear at earn and look pleasant when unexpected calleam suddenly surprise her with a set of teeth in each hand sad none In her mouth. And it is pretty difficult for the callers to look unoonoermd under such eiraipsstancee, tew,—Burlington Hawkeye. ...

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When justice shall start out in quest of us All around, from the east to the west of us. To make up her judgment iu test of us, Shell not ask wools ill or well dressed of us. What the voices of men have expressed of us,. Not If the world loves or makes jest of us, If feathers or straw line the n»»t of us,

Or there's plenty of ooin in the vest of us, Or family pride In the crest of us But, if vice has been scorned or caressed of us, And men have been Injured or blessed of

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And If peaee Is Seldom aenestof us, Or lives every dav In the breast of us And In her unfailing arrest of us— "v Tis a shame to have it oonfessed of us

She will find the unvarying pest of us v" To be numberless faults in the best of us— In the good and the bad and the rest of us.. #y

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APPLICATION.

Now having pronounced your behest of us And told who are banned and who blest of us, What good or what 111 Is possessed of us, We yield to your righteous protest of us We'll rid us of what yeu detest of ue, And keep what will give to the seat of us Symmetrical character, lest of us, r*V Stern justice, with eye hill abreast of us 1 A eonsclenoe of peace shall contest of us,

And freedom ana quiet molest of us. That no one may er "be oppressed of us, No hearts that would ache be distressed oT Sweetckarity'sstore v^e'll Invest of us A fund that shall ne'er be suppressed of us Thebxmof ree grace none msy wrest of us, Nor tbe flat of love be nonest 01 us. f]

Terre Haute. H. B.Q.

[The writer says there was some danger that the rules of rhetoric would be violated by making the "application" longer than the "sermon," to avoid which, it will be seen that near the close th.^ "application," was "suppressed."] il

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They soon grow old who grope for gold In marts wnere all is bought and sold .. al' Who live for self and on some shelf .. In darkened vaults hoard up their pelf, Cankered and crusted o'er vntli mold, PFor then their youth Itself is old.

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They ne'er grow old ho gather gold Wiiere spring awakes and flowers uufold Where sons arise in Joyous skies, And flll the soul within their eyes. For them the immortal bards have sung For them old age itself, Is young. -rscribner for August.

A WORD TODAY LABORERS. Inter-Ocean, Why, good gracious,, gentlemen! One would think, to hesr you talk, tbatyou expect to always .remain day laborers, never laying up a dime, or advancing an inch. We hope that that is not the expectation of at least the younger workingmen of this country. It is unworthy of them. Times may be tight, money hard to get, remunerative joba difficult to obtain at present, but patience, grit,and a steadypegglngaway will lift you oat sooner or Ister. This Is a nation of workers, and ten to one the men, you labor for: were themselves laboring for others but a abort time ago. Have courage, hope, and then remem-

tier to ask for yourselves only what you will be willing to grant to othem wn« your part of wheel cornea uppermost.:

WITCHERY OF ARCHERY." Indianapolis Herald. The first impression a stranger has on getting off tbe trsio as it enters the V.Hoosier Athens IS tbst tbe big Sioux

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German indemnity tbe national debt of France remains, and is abont twice that of the United States,

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in dafrpe is going to be held here soon* fff? yard has its bulls-eye under some invitlog shade trse, and ft is punctured ssftill of holes as the switch boards at every corporation limit. Men are harry- tingthtoagh tbe streets, with bow In hand, and a quiver fall or arrows belted I about tBeir waists outside of their linen dusters. All they lack to make the delusion complete is the wsr paint, with X*-* anaccasional whoop thrown In. The disease is oontagious, and they sre said to have been Thompeoned.'.', !V AFTER DE LA UATYR. [Inter-Ocean.]

Dr. De La Matyr, the Methodist preSoher who is running for Congress on the Greenback ticket in the Indianapolis District, Is no doubt a very earneat and sincere msn, but he needs to read op a little before he talks too much. Dr. De La Matyr is represented

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The St. Louis limes recalls tbe story of tbe Irishman, who in eating raw eggs, heard the chirp of chicken as an egg slipped down, and remarked "Bejaberv, ye spoke too late." The Times makes sn application after this fashion: "Mir. Manton Marble Is In tbe condition of that unfortunate chicken. He has' spoken too late about tbe Tllden business. Tbe concatenation of unfortui* tons drcnmstances swallows him apas soon ss he is beard."

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v--! Indianapolis Herald. Aristocratic north-enders are troubled with a pest of fleas. Some of tbe patatlal mansions are rendered almost untenable by them, and every night strange and fantastic figures, thrown up on the. window blinds, attract the attention of the belated pedestrian. They are supposed to be the reflections of fair ones engaged in flea hunts.

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ti St. Louis Bepublkwn. Ben Boiler spoke for two horns tb a Maine audience, oil Saturday. He for' nudly sndounced that be had left tbe old parties—which is good thing for the old parties.

Yotrcan't fool the mercury." An Osh-' kosh man turned his thermometer up* 5d?J down litely. and the mertniy dimbed out of the window, went round to tbo back door, rnme fa when nobody was looking, found ths hundred mark end roosted there.,